Your open tabs are unfinished decisions, not bookmarks

I've stopped closing tabs at some point and use them as a history.

Of course, I'm using the kind of browser that keeps your tabs as a horizontal list to the left, not as a ribbon at the top. New tabs appear at the top of the list and the bottom ones become history.

The main problem with browser history is that it doesn't remembers tab groups, which I use a lot. Not closing tab groups allows me to easily look up a topic I've been researching 3 months ago and see all of it's tabs.

Opening this in a new tab right now, definitely reading it later! Definitely. 100%.

The problem with bookmarks is that they have their own place that is only for bookmarks. It would be better if bookmarks would live in the same place tabs live.

It's like with pinned apps in Dock. Imagine if you couldn't pin apps in the Dock. Instead, there would be some separate place where all your pinned apps lived. That would be unusable.

Arc did something like that with pinned tabs, and I've heard multiple people say that it was the killer feature for them.

Most of my opened tabs are waiting for a response or delivery; open support tickets, package tracking, etc. Those aren't unfinished decisions on my part but waiting on an action or response from others.

That's definitely true for me. I utilize Safari Tab Groups and have about 50 groups for various unfinished decisions (some of which are just To Read)

No, mine are just bookmarks that I keep open because I'm too lazy to organize bookmarks into groups and always want this set open. For work, it's deep linked nonsense that isn't bookmarkable. Because corporate. Rarely, I'm researching something so it's in progress work - those get closed when I'm done.

Having a slop factory prioritize and summarize my abandoned tabs into an ever growing prioritizable list of detritus when I close my browser is something I might actually glean some utility from

I'm the developer of Tably, a free iPhone app built around the idea that many open tabs aren't things we want to bookmark. They're decisions we haven't finished yet.

The article teaches a manual six-step method first. Works in Notes, Reminders, or on paper. Tably is just a

The article teaches a manual six-step method first. Works in Notes, Reminders, or on paper. Tably is just a purpose-built versions of that same practice: choose one page, optionally save why, pick when to revisit, close the tab yourself. No scanning, no automatic closing, no account, local by default. It is Free.

Curious what people think of the approach, does "unfinished decision" resonate as a category that's distinct from both bookmarks and read-later?