HACKER Q&A
📣 juujian

How many tabs do you have open in the browser(s) and why?


How many tabs do you have open in the browser(s) and why?


  👤 sssilver Accepted Answer ✓
A whole bunch of them. Because they all seem “useful” and I’m not “done” with them yet.

👤 MrCharismatist
Right this second, four.

Mail, Hermes Agent Dashboard, ESPN draft tracker, HN

I harvest tabs mercilessly, I either read and close or if its something I want to keep I have the bot clip into my obsidian vault


👤 billybuckwheat
On my work computer, at least four - one each for the web apps, like Notion or Monday.com in which I'm working. Sometimes, I have a couple of tabs open for each app.

On my own computer, two maybe three - one for email, one for Nextcloud, and whatever one I'm using for browsing.


👤 aroido-bigcat
For me it’s usually not about the number, it’s about unfinished decisions.

Most tabs are just “I’ll come back to this”, and they pile up because I never actually decide to either use it or drop it.


👤 khedoros1
A lot. Often a couple dozen for pages that are currently queued up to read, with pages further to the left being older and often forgotten (or they're pages that I would like to have read, but don't want to take the time to read, and I haven't accepted that distinction yet). Another window might have reference material for whatever I'm working on. If I've only got one page open there, it usually means that I'm not deep into the process.