Timeline for How do you research for answers?
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| Mar 13, 2019 at 1:21 | comment | added | CubicleSoft | @Ploni - pastebin.com/DaKZvvxm It's in PHP, but it can be rewritten easily in any language. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 22:28 | comment | added | user435587 | @CubicleSoft Care to share the script? I also have many (not quite as many as you only around 20-30) tabs open occasionally, and I'd be curious to know the actual number. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 17:16 | answer | added | Elder Geek | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 11:15 | comment | added | fkraiem | I see. It would never occur to me to go dig in source code to answer such a question; if I don't know, I just pass. Maybe I'm just lazy. :D | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 8:03 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | @fkraiem Here's one example. I was digging through Nautilus source code across multiple files, plus API documentation, plus documentation to make the code examples. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 7:37 | comment | added | fkraiem | I cannot imagine how a question would require more than three open tabs or so. Do you have an example? | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 3:22 | comment | added | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | @ScottStensland That's an interesting way. I used to do something similar: I'd open Issue with specific tag ( enhancement, bug, etc ) on github repository of my project. I still have some of them to fix. Usually people think of Issues as bug reports, but for a project where you are owner/maintainer I think it's sufficient to have an open Issue as sort of to do list. And there's also a bit of "public pressure" - you've set goals which other people might see, so there's motivation to work on them | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 21:10 | comment | added | Scott Stensland | any new project gets its own text file I maintain on dropbox so any machine I happen to be working from has the latest version of this note keeping file | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/AskUbuntu/status/1104124702593830918 | ||
| Mar 8, 2019 at 14:42 | comment | added | CubicleSoft | Anywho, back on topic: Do you use middle click (i.e. press your scroll wheel down on links)? Middle click opens new tabs while staying on the same tab. I use it all the time to walk down a series of links and open a series of probably relevant tabs. Visiting a page, going back, visiting a different page, going back, and so on is tedious and likely to lose where I'm at if I want to see a bunch of different possible pages and I liked one page better than others then I possibly have to try to find it again. | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 14:35 | comment | added | CubicleSoft | @dessert - Okay, fine, not the only one. My main point is that I've got 100+ tabs open at the moment without issue. 25 tabs for a single round of research is pretty average for me. Firefox remembers my tabs between sessions unless I dump them into a Private Browsing session. | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 7:06 | comment | added | dessert | @CubicleSoft “[T]he only web browser that can handle that”? You should really have a look at Vivaldi offering not only tab grouping, but also tab hibernation, tab splitting, sessions, advanced searching and much more. | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 5:14 | comment | added | CubicleSoft | Related but not an answer: Depending on my current project, I can have upwards of 300 tabs open at one time. It doesn't really bother me and I'm currently hovering at 114 tabs according to a little script I wrote that tracks my tab habit. I know there are people out there who are tab hoarders and keep thousands of open tabs around. Firefox (Quantum) is the only web browser that can handle that particular brand of crazy. When Firefox introduced tab groups, it was to cater to that audience even though the feature never really took off and was ultimately removed. | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 10:07 | answer | added | Dan | timeline score: 12 | |
| Mar 7, 2019 at 1:23 | history | asked | Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |