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Researching Extra History

🕑 Added 2015-07-13 21:03:16 +0000 UTC

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Isam

May I suggest Tab Outliner? It's a Chrome extension that is amazing at managing tabs. Look it up you may find it useful.

Ragnar

For me, it always has to be a prime number or I'll freak out.

FloundericiousWA

That's what my wife's safari looks like on her iPad ... Drives me crazy sometimes

Nicholas Russell

Have you tried creating multiple windows and organizing your tabs based on that? I used to have this problem when researching myself and found that if I, say, fill one window with tabs detailing Hannibal military campaign, a second one dedicated to Roman politics during the time, a third one about the modern pop cultural impact Hannibal has had in the world, and so on I became a lot more efficient. In fact one of the unexpected benefits was being able to compare between the two windows. To take an example from one of my own personal projects while researching Knossos for a table top game I was making I'd place one window that had images of pottery taken from Knossos and on another I had several pages showing pics of similar pottery that were taken in Athens, Sparta, and even Egypt. Gave me a whole lot of insight I wouldn't have gotten looking at just one page at a time.

Murabito

My tab is like that when I'm casually browsing. When I'm doing research for assignments(uni stuff)...... it's multiple monitors with multiple windows of that on multiple browsers xp

Jesus Gutierrez

Pretty much my version of tabs when working on a story. I pray to all the gods that my search history is never discovered.

Alexander Medeiros

Keep me in mind. Please. History is my forte.

Nessf

Not like you're the only irrational one. I hate using built in subscription tools, like the youtube subscribe button. We all have our quirks.

Extra History

We're good right now, but thanks for the offer!

Extra History

And clutter all this beautiful, useless whitespace on the side of my screen?! Never!

Extra History

I remember Opera used to have fantastic tab grouping, and I'm sure Chrome has an extension for it but for some reason I can't be bothered to install and use one anymore. I have some quirks.

Extra History

About two years ago, I randomly just started hating bookmarks. I don't know. I almost never use them except by accidental misclick, and when I do create one I'm usually irritated thinking about it for the next five minutes. It's not rational.

Extra History

The most common sites are probably Wikipedia and Forvo - not really that interesting. The interesting stuff usually comes when I go deep down the rabbit hole searching for something obscure and then stumble across one site that's just in love with that obscure fact and has everything about it. For example, the site that listed all the samurai family crests (Sengoku Jidai) or the wargaming forum that explained how Zulu shield patterns worked.

Markus Berglund

A small advice - use "Tree Style Tab" or some other addon to put all the tabs on the right or left side. Then the headline of every tab is readeble.

Nessf

Man, in the rare event that my tabs start looking that bad I bookmark some of them and start closing them down.

Guilherme Harrison

can you give as a quick overview of the mos common sites visited?

Andrew Joy

When doing suff like that i prefer to use no tabs and simply note down the text i need in a text editor, i am way more focused then

Nicole Barovic

Wow. I thought I was bad, and I only have half this many open.

AV

Mozilla + Tree Tab extension, I'm just sayin', it will improve your life.

Tyler Harris

The Firefox browser has a lifesaving feature for us that use a lot of tabs; you can group tabs together and name them. Maybe the other browsers have incorporated similar layouts.

Philip Pangrac

You make a terrible straight man.

Luna

I am just starting college/university after skipping it and going straight to the workforce for dumb reasons, and I can say my recent experiences corroborate this statement.

Luna

Decently powerful machine with a good amount of memory.

Alexander Medeiros

I would love to help with research if you guys ever needed it

Michael Waisfeld

Honestly don't know how people can stand more than like... 5-7 tabs open at a time

Philip Pangrac

How did your browser not just up and die?

GooGhoul

I remember when my browser used to look like this, then I started using five different browsers at the same time; Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon, & IE.

Harrison Brussel

Good god...my record...IT'S BEEN BEATEN!!!!!!

Extra History

I can't stand to have that many tabs open on a regular basis. When it gets anywhere near that high I get twitchy and start ruthlessly closing them down, but in this case I needed that many!

Extra History

I've seen James's tabs and he's 20x worse than I am. ;) His icons aren't even visible.

Extra History

Very poorly. I remember the order my thoughts went in (find this thing, then find that thing, etc.) and then I use that like a timeline when flipping back through older tabs to find the one I'm looking for. Although it helps that I have The Great Suspender on Chrome, so the less useful tabs get grayed out and I can skip them.