Curious: Flylady and Firefox

[labelleizzy]

OK, anyone familiar with Flylady and her HotSpots, I have a question for you...

feels like sometimes my Firefox browser is like a hotspot of its own. I currently have almost 5 full rows of tabs open, and that's usual for me, even when Jeff makes gentle fun of me for doing so.

I close things when I finish tasks, commenting, posting, reading, but I always seem to have too much to remember, so it's really like my desk - lots of bits of paper (hopefully) reminding me of stuff I have to finish.


Anybody else do something like this?

Comments

[elissali.livejournal.com]

yep!

though not to that degree, I think. :)

[sqrt-joy.livejournal.com]

you just described funos to a T. :)

[much-ado.livejournal.com]

*especially* now that i do a lot of my initial research for both undergrad and grad school asignments via the web, it's not unusual for me to have a couple of tabs open to material for each of my courses. four courses, that's eight tabs, plus email and LJ... :)

they call it a "desktop" for Very Good Reason.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

doood. *agrees*

BTW, I think I'ma steal your icon for computery goodness. it is teh kyoot.

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

Would you like a rolled up newspaper for the FlyLady?

Hahaha

[laviolinista.livejournal.com]

fwap, fwap, fwap.

[pthalostars.livejournal.com]

omg i totally do that. and one day, a friend of mine came over and started closing browser windows on my computer, and i flipped out on him - he said "they were open yesterday when i was here so i thought you weren't using them." - NO! they're the way i keep a to-do list, i have a very specific system so anything open on any of my computers means i still need to do something with it. i totally understand that! :)

[serendipity17.livejournal.com]

We do that. "I'm going to close some tabs" is a legitimate reason to take usership possession of the desktop compy. It almost, but not quite, trumps "I want to play a game."

[themusecalliope]

I start a different window full o tabs for each project. (and yeah, I close them as I go..or bookmark them for the mysterious "later"...whenever that might be.)

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

I have no relevant comment here, but just, mmm...Romana...

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to use del.icio.us to save all my bookmarks, both work and home. I'm growing more and more addicted, and it's been only two days!

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

I suppose I just don't do enough on the computer that this becomes a real issue for me. I rarely have more than 6 tabs open at a time, unless I'm in picture-viewing mode, where I'll open a bunch of tabs for looking at later, and then I'll look at them.

If only I could apply this to the rest of my life so easily...

[trekster.livejournal.com]

I think I'm in the same boat - I don't use the puter that much, so I don't get to that stage, and since I have either the school puter or my laptop, both of them I have to shut down at the end of the day and so they all close when I turn it off. :)

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

that's what del.icio.us seems to be for - online bookmark saving!

I've crashed office computers that way...

[laviolinista.livejournal.com]

yes, but only at work. When the desktop gets too cluttered, I close tabs.

One thing I do on works in progress is to create an excel spreadsheet to list all the projects in tabular form. If I have something more prose-like, I create separate word docs and save them under descriptive titles with the date in the title 091707. I also meticulously sort through my files and frequently rename and refile when I go looking for ideas. Here the mantra is save, save, save. File maintenance is key here. Madametromboni is not so big on file maintenance so I often have to help her fish out files. So I am reminded that this method is not for everyone.

Now that I have an mp3 recording device, I record myself saying the info and upload it to my computer with a descriptive file name.

I can search by file, date or descriptive word to find ideas (or click in recent docs). As for the multiple tabs, I try to close and save as I go to prevent too many. The exception here is that I do like to have multiple tabs on an excel spreadsheet while I am firming up my ideas and then consolidating the tabs later.

[(Anonymous)]

But at the end of the day, I'm done with them, and so I don't really need anything other than mayhap a place for ALL faves from both computers to go. Thanks for the linkage!

oops!

[trekster.livejournal.com]

this was me - it logged me out! PHOOEY!

firefox vs. ?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/]

Just a random drop-in.

Opera handles having dozens of tabs open a bit more smoothly than does Firefox. One of the most useful features is you can close it (without killing it or crashing it) and later resume the same session with the same cached copies of the pages you had open for reading.

In practical terms this means I can have
http://www.livejournal.com/users/_duncan/friends/all?skip=100 opened a day ago and a week ago in the same browser and after a crash they will continue to show different content.

/pulpit