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ILX, Youtube, Twitter

do you people not have webmail? savages.

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ILX, webmail account 1, webmail account 2

i thought it was just a fact of modern life that you have like twenty tabs open. half finished articles, webmail accounts, things you’re halfway through doing. ilx & webmail are staples, tumblr & twitter part of open/close/mindlessly refresh cycles, & the rest are things i’m semi-conscious of intending to dip into but which are ordinarily just replaced by newer things i’ve been distracted by at some point.

yeah I always have at least 15 tabs open

I use Chrome’s bookmarks bar for that purpose.

bookmarks are more a weird cryogenics thing for me, like i consign the things i am not-this-moment going to finish there & then never look at them again. they’re there for posterity or for the day when we figure out how to find time to do something with them, but not actually to be accessed. the bookmarks bar is slightly intrusive i think.

I think I use bookmarks badly. The first dozen or so show up along the top of the main browser window, but after that it’s like an archoeological dig in reverse, the newest stuff at the bottom. The bookmarks are arranged in strata too—like “here’s this cluster of pages about rotary switches from three months ago, WTF was I looking at those for?”

yes, bookmarks just end up as a jungle. you know what was really useful for a while: google history, which you could keyword search. it seems different, now, though, like it only records some of what you visit, or something. i remember forgetting the word ‘cathexis’ & finding it, finding the time i had looked it up on merriam webster, through diligent searching, i was v proud.

Fun: Gmail, ILX, The Quietus

Work: Gmail, CRM Database, some excel spreadsheet or other

facebook is prob one of my most visited sites but I always close the tab. why? because opening a tab and going to facebook and seeing the red notification squirts dopamine into my brain

Couple of unread Guardian articles, Facebook, ILX

ILX, Twitter, Guardian Music

with the dozen+ crowd. two ilx’s, webmail, a few youtubes, grantland and some image searches. 15 total

Yahoo mail, Facebook, ILX.

ILX and webmail are the two I use most. The holder for the third place alters with time, but the most likely options are Wikipedia, basso.fi (a local rap music site/message board), hs.fi (a local newspaper), Comics Should Be Good, discogs.com, and Facebook.

Btw, am I the only one for whom Wikipedia, discogs.com and other sites like that have totally replaced search engines when looking for info on something? These days I google something only when I can’t find anything about it on those sites.

Wikipedia is probably the first place I look when I want to find out something factual; didn’t mention it above because it’s not a site I tend to keep open/refresh constantly.

gmail, twitter, ilx, [then assorted tabs incl tumblr, bbc news/guardian, hairpin maybe, bunch of half-read articles, webmail sometimes]

if i am doing research-related browsing (e.g. jstor) i try and keep it to a separate window, sometimes even a different browser entirely? but inevitably there is mutual creep.

gmail flickr soundcloud fb twitter

I have a bookmarklet set up for Wikipedia.

i almost always have 7–8 tabs open, but yeah, i was just wondering about the top 3. for no particular reason.

I use Chrome’s bookmarks bar for that purpose.

yeah, same here, and actually my bookmarks are pretty organized. i have everything organized into folders on the bookmark bar, so i have music, politics, envirofascism, animation, utilities, etc. and of course, MISC.

Top three are generally Gmail, ILX and Facebook. :/

oh god, the dreaded MISC folder xp

ilx/twitter/facebook

twitter has p much killed bookmarks for me, i have like ten in my bookmarks bar but i dont use them that much

i feel like a jerk because i can’t seem to get into twitter that much. i can’t imagine it replacing my bookmarks!

also, if this thread wsa “your four tabs” i’d add Google Reader as my 4th.

1. iGoogle

2. ILX

3. either Facebook (more likely at home) or NYT (more likely at work)

its like my internet, i feel good when i say my internet

ilx, gmail, google reader

i don’t think i really want everything bookmarked or queued to a reader, it would deplete the portfolio of things i can cycle through listlessly when i’m bored. like if you only went to the fridge when you were actually going to eat a thing, instead of just to have a general check-in.

> Btw, am I the only one for whom Wikipedia, discogs.com and other sites like that have totally replaced search engines when looking for info on something? These days I google something only when I can’t find anything about it on those sites.

> ― Tuomas, Wednesday, December 21, 2011 8:04 AM

Me too, and beyond that, I use Google as a cross-application spell checker (just type the first few letters and let it finish the word for me), and also to determine which of two spellings is the more common one by number of hits, or whether a phrase is common enough for me to include it in my writing.

i use google to search wikipedia etc tho

ilx, google reader, subsonic/some radio station site if i’m listening to music at work

i use google to search wikipedia etc tho

Yeah, I will type into Google “new york knicks wiki” or whatever.

Which is often unnecessary, b/c Wikipedia is likely to be among the first few search results, anyway.

same

ilx, gmail, nyt

gmail, wikipedia, ....yeah I guess ilx actually.

also to determine which of two spellings is the more common one by number of hits, or whether a phrase is common enough for me to include it in my writing

Oh yeah, I do this too.

lol only 3 tabs

whether a phrase is common enough for me to include it in my writing

Yup.

whether a phrase is common enough for me to include it in my writing

yeah, I do this a lot. sometimes I’ll compare the hit counts for two similar phrases to decide which one is correct. I have way too much faith in the masses sometimes.

altho sometimes I’ll do the opposite & use google to figure out whether the phrase I just typed (or the bad pun that just popped into my head) is obvious prefabricated twaddle that 10,000 people have already thought of before or whether it is a strikingly original expression that could only have come from my unconventional mind (translation: it’s such an awful pun that no one else has dared to put it in print, even on the internet).

“pre-fabricated twaddle”

2 results (0.12 seconds)

:(

haha

GMail, ILX, Facebook

whether the phrase I just typed (or the bad pun that just popped into my head) is obvious prefabricated twaddle that 10,000 people have already thought of before or whether it is a strikingly original expression that could only have come from my unconventional mind (translation: it’s such an awful pun that no one else has dared to put it in print, even on the internet).

Bahaha I do exactly this! Like “um hold on wait maybe 2,000 people before me have found it funny to claim Angelique Kidjo is the older sister of Ugly Kid Joe?”

ilx; at least one youtube tab, usually a wikipedia tab or two, google news; if it’s friday then a couple tabs of craigslist yard sales

I only really look at email on my phone

ILX, a backpacking forum where I am a moderator, third tab rotates a lot

firefox ‘pin as app tab’ has totally changed bookmarking for me

Gmail, memory alpha, dailymile

lol memory alpha <3 u Jeff.

whoa, i guess most people who use chrome already know this, but you can “pin” your favorite tabs so that they’re always open, but take up less space. here’s my (main) three tabs, pinned:

read about it here

here ARE, sigh

sigh

next week: i tell everyone about Save vs Save As

hey “alt+f-s-a” is a badass keyboard shortcut imo

F12 for the lazy/Office users.

Three? Oh man, I wish :(

I have 53 tabs open right now. Some have been open for months.

o shit are u my mom?

well this is awkward

gmail, ilx, twitter

fourth tab usually google or a blog or something else i’m reading. kind of alarmed by how few people are including email in their 3, unless maybe they have it installed as something they don’t read on their browser or something?

Bensons, regal kingsize,

Inability to name another cigarette brand ruins geordie “tabs” joke..

email is passe!