Curating various subjects into different windows simply allows you to pile them on systematically. Most of these tabs will get lost in a Favicon pile up, and you’ll forget where or how or why you got to them in the first place. The Behavior: Creating new windows for each “genre” of tabs: work, personal, to read, etc., then letting the tabs accumulate in each window into oblivion. This can reduce memory usage from GBs to mere MBs of space, and it allows for easy perusing when you’re ready to scroll through them and tab triage. Onetab converts all open tabs into one single page of bookmarks. Plus, if your computer is so overloaded it needs to force quit an application to make room, then there’s a problem! While forcefully shuttering all tabs may produce a fleeting moment of zen, it can also be disastrous if you want to recover those lost tabs later. The Behavior: Letting the tabs pile up until the browser dies on its own, forcing you to declare browser tab bankruptcy and start all over. Here is a breakdown of the different types of tab hoarders, and what to do about each one: Type 1: Going Browser Bankrupt
ĭon’t do this to yourself (or your computer). Having multiple tabs open isn’t making you more productive, it’s actually just making you scatterbrained, thus decreasing your ability to remember any single piece of information. In other words, multitasking is literally altering your brain chemistry. What they found was that the more a person multitasks, the less gray matter they possess in their anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), the part of the brain associated with cognitive and emotional processing. One study from the University of Sussex used fMRI scans to study the brains of people who engaged in differing degrees of multitasking. Rather, it’s frantically jumping from focus point to focus point, called spotlights, desperately trying to dial in on one item at a time in rapid succession. Your brain, however, is not actually processing all of these stimuli. When you are jumping from tab to tab your brain is releasing dopamine receptors that are giving you the illusion that you are being more productive.
Here’s some tough love: This process is harmful to not only your computer, but also your brain. Those little icons are basically the only way you can discern anything as you drown in a browser tab sea of your own making. Are you a digital packrat? Specifically, are you the type of person that has 50 browser tabs open all the time? The top bar of your browser is so squished that you have memorized the Favicon on every site for which you’re a frequent flyer.
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