Hmm I run out of tab space on Brave past where I can navigate it properly and then I just close the entire thing lol. Not running out of memory because I just use a shitton of swap.

There's a setting though, which I haven't switched on:


![](https://m.stacker.news/126653)

> I had some undocumented reason for ending up on that page

This is something with which I strongly identify. A tab holds much more information than the url. I'm surprised there isn't a well-designed browser solution for showing some hierarchy of tabs. Also, I'm surprised that tabs and bookmarks haven't merged in some way. I'll frequently open a tab as a sort of short term bookmarking, but the fact that it draws memory ends up crushing my laptop.

Scoresby

> thinking of vibing up a local variant of Defer

the main reason that I'm not actively seeking a software solution for this problem is that I consider it a subproblem of more general ADHD[^1], and thus deem it more appropriate to attack the more general behavioral issues.

edit: ***thank you** for mentioning and linking [Defer](https://defer.to)*; I should at least include it in my brainstormy research towards a more general praxis.

[^1]: at least, that's my judgement for my own case! obviously, some people might only suffer from this when they have 16GB RAM and fifteen notification channels all going off at once; however, my solution should ideally work equally well in the entire space of my distractions, that spans graphical desktop environments, console sessions, smartphone distractions, and books that include musical scores with scribbles on looseleaf...

> I often find that when I'm not disciplined about keeping my heap of browser tabs bounded, the pressure to reduce the number of open tabs leads to me abandoning this retracing of "why/how did I get here".

Same. I'm thinking of vibing up a local variant of [`Defer`](https://defer.to/)

optimism

I came to the above-linked post when I was reading this one, 

I often find that when I'm not disciplined about keeping my heap of browser tabs bounded, the pressure to reduce the number of open tabs leads to me abandoning this retracing of "why/how did I get here". If the tab was only exploration of some topic for general enrichment, that's fine, although often I realize a few minutes or hours later that I had some undocumented reason for ending up on that page... so ending the digestion of one article with determining that context is definitely a good habit.

Design

What computer security is - Chris Seibenmann

> I came to the above-linked post when I was reading this one, *[...]*

Thank you for sharing your context!

I often find that when I'm not disciplined about keeping my heap of browser tabs bounded, the pressure to reduce the number of open tabs leads to me abandoning this retracing of "why/how did I get here". If the tab was only exploration of some topic for general enrichment, that's fine, although often I realize a few minutes or hours later that I had some undocumented reason for ending up on that page... so ending the digestion of one article with determining that context is definitely a good habit.