• kamen@lemmy.world
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    8 minutes ago

    Set a script to automatically delete them once they’re a week or two old; if it’s something important, you’ll copy it somewhere else.

  • beezzeeb@lemmy.world
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    Actually, Apple’s AI has made this pretty useful these days. It’s become yet another extension of my brain since i can now search them. But, yes, for a long time they were just more clutter. And, the benefit may still be quite marginal due to the fact that they are using energy in perpetuity as long as they are stored in the cloud. lol

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      Try that count on each of 5 separate browser window. Amaeteur. I exaggerate, of course. Only a couple have that many tabs. I actually closed a window today - it only had 8 tabs - and opened a new one with more tabs from the references of the pages I closed. Eventually I will read the internet.

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        It’s not a competition, but that was just mobile browser. Add a personal laptop and a work laptop for the full measure.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Can’t count the number of ideas I’ve lost simply because I can’t remember to jot it down when it hits

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    You know what moment brings me true joy?

    Whenever I accidentally close my main browser window but have a second window open so that the browser forgets all my open tabs.

    That’s when I’m able to live in bliss for a few days.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I have a Project Ideas folder that would choke an ox, as my dad used to say. The only time I ever look through it is when I’m adding something. But tbh I do find items in there that I’ve actually done.

  • Zwiebel@feddit.org
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    6 hours ago

    Backup your bookmarks and then delete all of them. The backup is for peace of mind “just in case I ever need one of them” (you won’t)

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    In the immediate future, the screenshot archive becomes unmanageable.

    In the long term future, it becomes the modern equivalent of what your parents and grandparents got out of keeping a scrapbook or photo album.

    I’ve been chronically online since 1997. Going through a scrap folder which I held onto when decommissioning an old PC or phone brings back all kinds of memories. I even find that noting the changes in my meme taste can be really useful for identifying points where I’ve grown as a person. That, in turn, leads to reprocessing old memories and identifying ways in which I brought something to the table which facilitated some of my own bad experiences. That helps me heal.