Chrome certainly lets me indulge my tab addiction, finally unable to display text (icon only) at 21 tabs and at 42 can't even display icons anymore (@ 1280x1024). More and more research has shown multitasking decreases overall productivity. I find that's especially true with my researching/browsing when I don't "complete/finalize" a thread of thought or tangent of research, examples of which would be looking up a definition or following a source. Having too many tabs is overwhelming and distracting, and when I realize half of them are obsolete and take a second to close them out, things become much clearer/cleaner. So here's my goal and a suggestion, after reading an article that warrants no further research or copying an image/quote from site that I want, close it. With history and google, it's easy enough to find it again if needed so why not keep things clean and increase productivity.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Tab Overload
I'm a huge fan of tabbed browsing. It's the only way I can keep up with the multitude of people and topics vying for my attention. I can't imagine ever browsing without it. Though, I suppose the 30+ second load times for a single page with dial-up had a lot to do with it. But I've learned that there's such a thing as too many tabs, and Chrome has a good way of telling me when I've reached that magic number:
Chrome certainly lets me indulge my tab addiction, finally unable to display text (icon only) at 21 tabs and at 42 can't even display icons anymore (@ 1280x1024). More and more research has shown multitasking decreases overall productivity. I find that's especially true with my researching/browsing when I don't "complete/finalize" a thread of thought or tangent of research, examples of which would be looking up a definition or following a source. Having too many tabs is overwhelming and distracting, and when I realize half of them are obsolete and take a second to close them out, things become much clearer/cleaner. So here's my goal and a suggestion, after reading an article that warrants no further research or copying an image/quote from site that I want, close it. With history and google, it's easy enough to find it again if needed so why not keep things clean and increase productivity.
Chrome certainly lets me indulge my tab addiction, finally unable to display text (icon only) at 21 tabs and at 42 can't even display icons anymore (@ 1280x1024). More and more research has shown multitasking decreases overall productivity. I find that's especially true with my researching/browsing when I don't "complete/finalize" a thread of thought or tangent of research, examples of which would be looking up a definition or following a source. Having too many tabs is overwhelming and distracting, and when I realize half of them are obsolete and take a second to close them out, things become much clearer/cleaner. So here's my goal and a suggestion, after reading an article that warrants no further research or copying an image/quote from site that I want, close it. With history and google, it's easy enough to find it again if needed so why not keep things clean and increase productivity.
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