Through circumstances not all that interesting, Doyce raised the question to me whether I use my open tabs (and the Firefox abilities to reopen same automatically) in lieu of a Bookmarks\/Favorites file.<\/p>\n
Mmmmmmyeah. A bit. Sorta.<\/p>\n
I tend to keep a lot of tabs open, largely stuff I want to come back to short term. If I put it into Bookmarks\/Favorites, I’d have to first remember to go look for it. <\/p>\n
Things stay open until (a) I go past five rows of tabs (at which point my FF setup starts to scroll the tabs, which is annoying), at which point I clean some stuff out, (b) the tab-reopening stuff crashes, losing everything (rare), or (c) I spot something curious on a tab title, open it, and then dispose of that tab (and neighboring ones) one way or another.<\/p>\n
So, right now, I have my first three tabs for my blog, Gmail, and GCal. Two tabs for Storyball stuff. For tabs for the Mountain Witch. Then a bunch of tabs for memes I mean to do sooner or later. Many more tabs that are left open for stuff I was reading but never finished or mean to blog about, or whatever.<\/p>\n
Bookmarks are a bit more interesting (or less so, maybe). I have a massive Bookmarks (FF term; Favorites in IE) file. And I use maybe three or four items from it a month. The rest? Almost never used (or, in the case of one folder of Interesting Backup Material On Political Arguments I Expect To Have Some Day, never).<\/p>\n
See, Google and my Blog are my Bookmarks. It’s faster for me to simply search for something in one place or the other (or both) to find (99% of the time) what I’m looking for. <\/p>\n
I should really clear that other crap out. Except — who knows what wonders are there, that some day I’ll find the time and inclination and opportunity to look at? Bits of the past …<\/p>\n
For those sites that I need to visit frequently enough — well, heck, that’s what my Links toolbar (IE term; FF calls it the Bookmarks toolbar) is for. And why I have about a hundred entries there. Which, yes, is insane, thank you for pointing that out.<\/p>\n
So, yes, perhaps Doyce’s final observation — “Packrat” — is apt. Or accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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