October 7, 2018

Anyone else have problems saving their endless tabs?

For as long as I can remember I've been the guy with 60+ tabs open on my computer in order to manage all kinds of research and work projects, as well as just to consume information that's valuable to me (stocks, startup news, etc). I also like to save tabs (a bit of a hoarder that way) and haven't yet found a solution that does this well as scale.

Things I've tried:

Pocket (not easy to group links together for recall when searching)

Onetab (amazing if not ugly solution but it doesn't scale past 2000 links stored it starts to lag significantly regardless of computer processing power)

Toby (nicer then onetab but start to lag at even less links)

pinboard (same problem as pocket)

I've tried many other tools as well and they all came up short in one way or another

I like to think of my tab hoards as my one-click information recall library going back years the problem is my information library grows faster then the listed tools can handle when I need to search through it.

Trying to assess if this is a problem only I have or is there a market for getting a solution to tab hoarding built?


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    It's precisely why I never shut down my computer and always leave it sleeping (I know, a major sin)

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    TabWrangler automatically closes your tabs as they become too old:

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjhciaieeiiohknchakcodbpgjnchh

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    Are any of the solutions you listed able to charge for it?

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      Workona charges for it, so does pocket and pinboard but they work a little differently... I think there's a market even if you don't charge for it. Attention is worth money. If its good enough people will pay for it. (I would happily pay for it) You could do a volume thing so you have to have a certain amount of tabs saved before it asks to charge for it so value has been received.

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    https://workona.com - its pretty cool

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      I played with workona, it seems like it could work but not sure if it can handle thousands of tabs saved... all of them work great with just a few but as soon as you hit the 1000 mark the lack of a backend database creates problems for me. Anyone have experience with that volume on workona?

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    Check this out! https://getstation.com

    I've been using this for a week now and I'm in love with it

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      I tried to like station, but it changes the way I do things so much that I find it annoying. I get that they try to improve how we do things, but I think it's too alien for me at this time. Looks cool though

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        Same story here, really wanted it to solve some of my problems but it forced me into a workflow that broke my actual workflow.