How to clean up tabs on your laptop without losing anything, in the May 20 Good Tech newsletter
If you now have somewhere between 12 and 47 tabs open on your laptop, know that there is a lot going on. And you're not particularly disorganized. The browser has become, without realizing it, the place where we store everything we don't want to forget. In tomorrow's edition of the Good Tech newsletter, you'll find some steps you can take to better manage your browser tabs.
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Tabs have become a kind of external memory. We always have something there. Something we want to read, buy, compare, solve or just not miss. It's the digital version of the pile of papers on your desk that you told yourself you'd organize later.
The reality is that we are somehow the perfect victims. We consume a lot of information in a single day: newsletters, TikToks, threads on X or Reddit, PDFs, tutorials, articles, YouTube clips, saved products, recommendations sent by friends. Almost every thing we see seems valuable, and if we don't have time to consume it now, we feel like we have to save it somehow.
The easiest thing becomes to leave another tab open. And then one more. And one more. And so on.
But there are some surprisingly simple solutions that you can use to get rid of this chaos without completely changing your digital life. You just need a better place for the things you're currently holding captive in tabs. Find out more in tomorrow's edition of Good Tech.
