Maddening Tabs tamed

Have you ever had the experience where you have 15 tabs open in a browser and you can't find the tabs that you just opened so you have to go to your email or your Zoom Chat to copy and paste the link to create yet another tab to be lost in the forest of tabs!!!

As my project lists grew longer, I spent longer and longer time finding the right tab. The difficulty of finding the right tabs has been the pet peeve that I brought up consistently in all my Zoom meetings in the past two weeks. A rewarding experience is the tips and strategies that my different Zoom collaborators shared, summarized below:
  1. Close them promptly. Leave the only tabs open for your current project. (Good suggestion. But as I have 10 projects going on at the same time, if I close a tab, I may miss a task that I need to complete.)
  2. Pin tabs. It's maddening that I always have to find where my email and my calendar tabs are. Right-click on them in Chrome. Select pin. Now my email is always the first tab to the very left of the browser and my calendar is the second. Will never lose them again!
  3. Group tabs. Right-click on the tab. Select Add tab to new group. Name your group. Then all the tabs related to that group will be arranged together in the browser.
  4. Use Reading list for articles or resources that you want to refer to later. Right-click on the tab and select Add to reading list. Then go to the top right of your Chrome browser. The tab will show up under Reading list.
  5. Reload the saved tab groups. Click the three vertical dots on upper right hand corner of Chrome or Edge window. Select Settings. Go to On startup (for Chrome) or Start, Home, and New Tabs (for Edge). Select Continue where you left off. Close the Chrome window. Restart and you should get your Chrome tab groups back with the new Chrome window.
  6. Skip Steps 1-4 and install OneTab plugin on Chrome. If you click on the OneTab plugin, all your tabs will be listed on a webpage. It saves memory because the tabs are not open. Click on a single tab will restore that tab in the browser. Choose Restore all, then your tabs will show up in the browser. 
  7. Create groups in OneTab as well. Once you bring in all the tabs in OneTab, you can restore all the other tabs except for the ones related to a single project. Then in OneTab, choose More... which is on the same line as Restore all, Delete all... Then choose Name this tab group. After you create the first group, bring all the tabs again, and repeat the process to generate the second and third groups. OneTab will not touch your pinned tabs on Chrome.
Now, I only have 3 tabs on my browser: OneTab, email, calendar. I feel my mind is much less distracted when I open my browser. I certainly don't have to waste 20 minutes or longer a day to search for the right tabs. 

Tabs, you are tamed!

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