two

actually the number two IRL

Thanks for playing, everyone. I'll see you around.


so I have a four digit browser tab count and I realise a lot of the reason why I have this is that I view the open tabs as a sort of archive; not a working memory, but everything that I might want to return to later. I find that it's a lot easier to find an open tab than searching for something in browser history, so this kind of makes sense, but there was a great point from a discussion about saving your old artistic works on here (which I can ironically no longer find) which was that if you have no organisation on your pile of stuff, it's not an archive, it's a hoard. So I want to apply some sort of bookmarking and organisation to the whole thing so I can close tabs and be confident I'll be able to find them later

And just having a million browser tabs doesn't really work for archival because, often, the tabs break - websites go down, things get deleted, page content changes... so I want to bookmark things and organise them in a convenient and sensible way, but I also want to properly save them, taking down a copy of the page for if (and when) it goes down. Am I overthinking this and should just use Firefox's inbuilt bookmarks + the Internet Archive Wayback Machine extension, or is there something that serious and organised web surfers on here can recommend?


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Funny how I've been avoiding using Zotero for referencing this far even when I really should have just learned it and then it turns out it might be very useful for something completely unrelated. Might have to give it a shot!

I really like the Arc browser for this. It sort of mashes the "bookmark" and "tab" metaphors together, letting things flow into history as needed - if you really want to keep things in front of you, you drag them "above the fold" in the vertical tab bar. What it doesn't do by default is save the state of pages when you accessed them tho. And also it currently has other problems such as overenthusiasm for generative AI (I hold out hope they will grow out of this).

I remember hearing about Arc from their own version of userstyles (Boosts?) - it really does seem like they're doing a lot of cool stuff, but the AI thing definitely gives me pause and it'd take quite a lot to get me to switch browsers now.