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I'm convinced the neurology of these people is setup in a way that they feel physically rewarded from combing through random hoarded stuff to find what they are looking for vs organizing things. It would make for an interesting scientific study as to why some users feel so compelled to keep so many tabs open. Is it FOMO, excellent recall (the only way I can see this being truly useful), or actual hoarding disorder gone digital???

As a person who has terrible short-term memory, I'm genuinely curious. I never hoard my tabs past a certain point 10-20 tabs, it actually slows me down in finding what I'm looking for. If I'm working on specific projects and need to save the tabs for later, I just use tab groups in Chrome and associate with a task so when I context switch, I just open up an existing tab group and close my other non-related ones.

https://www.google.com/chrome/tips/#:~:text=You%20can%20grou....


1) Why so judgmental?

2) As somebody with ADHD, there's an unacceptable level of mental overhead required for organizing things. I simply don't have any spare bandwidth to add organizing tabs into bookmarks and organizing bookmarks or whatever else into my daily functioning as a human being. It has nothing to do with feeling rewarded.


I don’t think it deserves that much armchair psychology. I was joking.




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