If it is important and you don't need it right now, use a bookmark and close that tab. Bookmarks have been around for literal decades now in browsers.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

In my experience the bookmark button is essentially the, 'This is interesting and I'll check this out later but never really will' button.

Now, I have a thousand unsorted bookmarks that I am ashamed to look at and half of them are decade old dead links.

Everyone is different, though. A sane person could categorize different bookmarks into relevant sub folders and review/clean them out monthly.

I'm not that person.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 days ago

How is it any different than a tab, other than the fact that it isn't loaded into your RAM or whatever? Do you really believe this person needs tab # 6546?

Just use a bookmarks bar, and it even looks almost identical.

[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There should be a 404 checker built into bookmarks. Once a year run a quick scan.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Double click that button and sort your bookmarks into folders

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The semi-logical reason that I leave so many tabs open, is that I do need/want the tab now, or in the near future, and keeping it in a tab is sort of like a sticky note to remind myself to do it. It rarely works though and just contributes to a growing sense of anxiety as I'm constantly stared down by a huge row of "to-dos"

[–] telllos@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So bookmark it in a check back later folder to switch your anxiety to the folder, at least its safe if you back it up.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah it's so weird... It's like people are consciously making the decision to only temporarily store sites they may need in temporary memory rather than just saving a bookmark

[–] Mesophar@pawb.social 1 points 6 days ago

Doesn't that only work as a sticky note if you normally only have a few tabs anyway, though? I understand it in principle, the tab is visually right there, but in practice it's the same as putting all the mail in an unsorted stack that you'll totally go through later.