Ask HN: Ever started your day with 3 tabs and ended with 30?

[mustime]

The modern workday:

- Start: "I'll stay organized"

- 2 hours later: 27 tabs open

- End of day: "Where did my time go?"

Ready to change this?

[k310]

Not a cure, but for me, when safari on iOS loads up way too many tabs, I open the overlapping squares in the bottom right of the screen,(phone) then the menu under the box that has the number of tabs open.

A menu item with the number of tabs opens up with a checkmark to the right. Hit the "Edit" button.

The "number of tabs" item then shows three dots to the right.

Tap that and you have copied all the links to the clipboard.

You can paste the copied links to email, a text editor that understands links (as links and not plain text) or whatever

Close the many tabs, or not. Easiest way is to clear history and browsing data. That settings/safari item will ask to close tabs or not.

"Tabs zero" (if you choose) and "Inbox 1."

This is so insanely unintuitive that I had to share.

[mustime]

Love this Safari lifehack!

[LandR]

The number of tabs I have open is directly correlated how much of a struggle I'm having solving my current issue.

If I have 30 tabs open, it's been a very very bad day.

[mustime]

Exactly! Tab count = struggle level

[JohnFen]

That's never happened to me. I can't remember ever having more than 10 or so tabs open at once, and even then, they get get closed quickly as I finish getting what I need from each page.

[datasherpa]

What tools/methods are you using to stay organized? Would love to hear what works for others!