Researching Extra History
Added 2015-07-13 21:03:16 +0000 UTCThis is what my tabs look like after researching a particularly tricky reference in Extra History...
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May I suggest Tab Outliner? It's a Chrome extension that is amazing at managing tabs. Look it up you may find it useful.
Isam
2015-07-25 00:48:23 +0000 UTCFor me, it always has to be a prime number or I'll freak out.
Ragnar
2015-07-24 16:48:51 +0000 UTCThat's what my wife's safari looks like on her iPad ... Drives me crazy sometimes
FloundericiousWA
2015-07-23 01:01:51 +0000 UTCHave you tried creating multiple windows and organizing your tabs based on that? I used to have this problem when researching myself and found that if I, say, fill one window with tabs detailing Hannibal military campaign, a second one dedicated to Roman politics during the time, a third one about the modern pop cultural impact Hannibal has had in the world, and so on I became a lot more efficient. In fact one of the unexpected benefits was being able to compare between the two windows. To take an example from one of my own personal projects while researching Knossos for a table top game I was making I'd place one window that had images of pottery taken from Knossos and on another I had several pages showing pics of similar pottery that were taken in Athens, Sparta, and even Egypt. Gave me a whole lot of insight I wouldn't have gotten looking at just one page at a time.
Nicholas Russell
2015-07-16 16:36:16 +0000 UTCMy tab is like that when I'm casually browsing. When I'm doing research for assignments(uni stuff)...... it's multiple monitors with multiple windows of that on multiple browsers xp
Murabito
2015-07-15 05:07:44 +0000 UTCPretty much my version of tabs when working on a story. I pray to all the gods that my search history is never discovered.
Jesus Gutierrez
2015-07-14 20:35:44 +0000 UTCKeep me in mind. Please. History is my forte.
Alexander Medeiros
2015-07-14 18:59:14 +0000 UTCNot like you're the only irrational one. I hate using built in subscription tools, like the youtube subscribe button. We all have our quirks.
Nessf
2015-07-14 18:40:46 +0000 UTCWe're good right now, but thanks for the offer!
Extra History
2015-07-14 18:00:49 +0000 UTCAnd clutter all this beautiful, useless whitespace on the side of my screen?! Never!
Extra History
2015-07-14 18:00:02 +0000 UTCI remember Opera used to have fantastic tab grouping, and I'm sure Chrome has an extension for it but for some reason I can't be bothered to install and use one anymore. I have some quirks.
Extra History
2015-07-14 17:59:22 +0000 UTCAbout two years ago, I randomly just started hating bookmarks. I don't know. I almost never use them except by accidental misclick, and when I do create one I'm usually irritated thinking about it for the next five minutes. It's not rational.
Extra History
2015-07-14 17:57:59 +0000 UTCThe most common sites are probably Wikipedia and Forvo - not really that interesting. The interesting stuff usually comes when I go deep down the rabbit hole searching for something obscure and then stumble across one site that's just in love with that obscure fact and has everything about it. For example, the site that listed all the samurai family crests (Sengoku Jidai) or the wargaming forum that explained how Zulu shield patterns worked.
Extra History
2015-07-14 17:56:52 +0000 UTCA small advice - use "Tree Style Tab" or some other addon to put all the tabs on the right or left side. Then the headline of every tab is readeble.
Markus Berglund
2015-07-14 16:58:59 +0000 UTCMan, in the rare event that my tabs start looking that bad I bookmark some of them and start closing them down.
Nessf
2015-07-14 13:12:11 +0000 UTCcan you give as a quick overview of the mos common sites visited?
Guilherme Harrison
2015-07-14 12:10:36 +0000 UTCWhen doing suff like that i prefer to use no tabs and simply note down the text i need in a text editor, i am way more focused then
Andrew Joy
2015-07-14 08:16:30 +0000 UTCWow. I thought I was bad, and I only have half this many open.
Nicole Barovic
2015-07-14 05:51:48 +0000 UTCMozilla + Tree Tab extension, I'm just sayin', it will improve your life.
AV
2015-07-14 01:18:05 +0000 UTCThe Firefox browser has a lifesaving feature for us that use a lot of tabs; you can group tabs together and name them. Maybe the other browsers have incorporated similar layouts.
Tyler Harris
2015-07-14 00:32:41 +0000 UTCYou make a terrible straight man.
Philip Pangrac
2015-07-13 23:46:34 +0000 UTCI am just starting college/university after skipping it and going straight to the workforce for dumb reasons, and I can say my recent experiences corroborate this statement.
Luna
2015-07-13 23:39:40 +0000 UTCDecently powerful machine with a good amount of memory.
Luna
2015-07-13 23:38:05 +0000 UTCI would love to help with research if you guys ever needed it
Alexander Medeiros
2015-07-13 23:35:26 +0000 UTCHonestly don't know how people can stand more than like... 5-7 tabs open at a time
Michael Waisfeld
2015-07-13 23:21:33 +0000 UTCHow did your browser not just up and die?
Philip Pangrac
2015-07-13 23:11:10 +0000 UTCI remember when my browser used to look like this, then I started using five different browsers at the same time; Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon, & IE.
GooGhoul
2015-07-13 22:31:28 +0000 UTCGood god...my record...IT'S BEEN BEATEN!!!!!!
Harrison Brussel
2015-07-13 21:52:55 +0000 UTCI can't stand to have that many tabs open on a regular basis. When it gets anywhere near that high I get twitchy and start ruthlessly closing them down, but in this case I needed that many!
Extra History
2015-07-13 21:38:47 +0000 UTCI've seen James's tabs and he's 20x worse than I am. ;) His icons aren't even visible.
Extra History
2015-07-13 21:34:36 +0000 UTCVery poorly. I remember the order my thoughts went in (find this thing, then find that thing, etc.) and then I use that like a timeline when flipping back through older tabs to find the one I'm looking for. Although it helps that I have The Great Suspender on Chrome, so the less useful tabs get grayed out and I can skip them.
Extra History
2015-07-13 21:32:30 +0000 UTCLucky guy, I have more then 60 opened right now :(
Martin Ockovsky
2015-07-13 21:32:03 +0000 UTCThat's what my tab bar looks like all the time . . . I may have a problem.
Zoe Alleyne
2015-07-13 21:25:04 +0000 UTCThat's what my browser looks like when researching a good paper. Love it.
Christopher Pelletier
2015-07-13 21:15:41 +0000 UTCThat looks like my work tabset, although with less Google. Good to see a visual symbol of the research done.
Isaac Dansicker
2015-07-13 21:12:03 +0000 UTCReminds me of college....
April
2015-07-13 21:10:11 +0000 UTCLooks like my chrome on a good day. Some days my tabs get too small for the icons even...
Oded Zohar
2015-07-13 21:09:55 +0000 UTCMagic of some sort.
Alex Wiens
2015-07-13 21:08:08 +0000 UTCHow do you even manage to track all the tabs!?
Hung Nguyen
2015-07-13 21:05:13 +0000 UTCSorry for the double-post! Patreon just changed the way these creator posts are made and the first version didn't come out right. -Soraya
Extra History
2015-07-13 21:04:38 +0000 UTC
