Too many tabs open

Are you a tab hoarder? Do you always keep 30+ tabs open in your browser?

Bad news: It slows down you and your computer.

Does this look familiar? If so, we want to share with you how to combat tab hoarding. Reducing the number of tabs you have open at any given time will allow you to reduce clutter, increase productivity, and work smarter in the browser.

Do you have too many tabs open?

If you have to ask whether you have too many tabs open then you probably have too many tabs open. Don’t fret, there are ways to mitigate this. These aren’t just tips on how to close tabs. We know you have tabs that you need to reference later, read later, or need quick access to but don’t need right this moment. We will be sharing strategies for all your needs.

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First, lets admit its never good

Having too many tabs open leads to scatterbrain. You simply cannot keep track of all that information, not to mention each tab gets squished smaller and smaller until only little favicons appear in your browser. It’s better to focus on one task at a time, and keep only pertinent information upfront and center.

So, what do you do? Well let’s address each scenario individually so that you can have a plan of attack when you are distracted or chaos begins to ensue.

You’re working on X, and something from Y pops up

Again, it is always best to work on one thing at a time. We all have interruptions, reminders, and urgent matters that need our attention from time to time. Instead of opening up another tab and diving into another task try:

1. Opening a new window and using it for the new task/project/urgent matter
2. Saving the tabs you currently have open to your bookmarks and starting fresh
3. Use a tab manager like Partizion to make saving, opening, and finding tabs super simple

You find yourself with 20+ tabs open, and don’t know which ones you need

This often happens when we are hammering away at our research, coding, social media planning, or writing. As soon as you consciously notice that tabs are piling up, its a good time to evaluate.

1. Go through each tab and close the ones that you don’t need, save the ones you might need later to your bookmarks, and rearrange your tabs.
2. If the above sounds like torture, try out Partizion, a tab manager that makes tab management super simple.

You’re done working on something, but don’t know what to do with the tabs

After a long day of work, we rarely are completely finished with what we are working on and therefore still need all or some of the tabs we have open. In order to access these tabs later, and more specifically access this group of tabs later, we should save them somewhere we will remember.

1. Create a bookmarks group of tabs, so that you can open the tabs together later on
2. Using a tab manager like Partizion, you can create custom groups of tabs that can be switched to or opened later in one click.

You have tabs from different tasks, projects, and work environments open at the same time

Multitasking doesn’t work. More accurately, us humans can’t do it. You are better off focusing on one thing at a time and switching contexts fully, when necessary.

In order to do this, you need to split up and organize your work. This means keeping tabs that belong to one task/project/work org. separate.

1. Try separating out your tabs into their respective tasks and using either different windows or bookmark groups to organize them.
2. If your bookmarks bar is full, or not working how you’d like it to, try out Partizion. It’s a tab manger that helps you organize, save, and manage your work in the browser.

Chrome is slowing down because you have too many tabs open

Each tab starts a new process in most modern browsers. This is like  a complete new application running in each new tab. This is a good thing  — it means a poorly coded page doesn’t crash the whole browser, or create security problems where code on one page can get access to data on another.

Unfortunately, this can lead to slower responsiveness and execution on your computer when you have many instances (tabs) open at the same time. Each tab takes up a certain amount of space and requires RAM from your computer to operate. When you have all those tabs open your browser doesn’t know which ones are important and which aren’t.

What can you do?

1. Using a tab suspender can help. Essentially, tabs that are inactive are automatically ‘suspended’ so that they aren’t taking ip precious computing power.
2. A tab manager like Partizion assists with this, making it easier to only have the necessary tabs open at any given time.

It’s hard to see tab titles because you have so many tabs open

If you can’t even read the titles of your tabs… you have too many tabs open. This likely mean you’re trying to work on more than one thing at a time, you have tabs that you might need later open, or are bouncing back at forth between tasks. Take the time to decide what you need to work on now, and then separate out your tabs to help you clearly focus on the task at hand.

1. Saving tabs to bookmarks or using different windows can help in the short term
2. Investing in a proper strategy and tool to help manage your tabs is your best bet in the long term. Understanding what you need to work on is step one, having the means to manage this is step 2. Partizion is a tab manager that helps you organize, find, and manage your work in the browser.

It’s hard to find a tab because you have too many tabs open

When it becomes so jammed and chaotic that finding/referencing a tab takes more time than you need to use the tab, it’s a problem. You should be able to know which tabs you have open and where they are. Finding a tab should be quick and easy, otherwise you’re wasting valuable time sorting through, clicking, and searching through a sea of unwieldy tabs.

1. Keep open only the tabs you need for the task at hand
2. If there is a tab you need later, save it as a bookmark
3. Try out a tab manager like Partizion to simplify your workflow

You’re hoarding tabs because you’re worried that you won’t be able to find tabs later

We’ve all been there; we go to find a tab that we previously visited and are at a loss. How the heck are we supposed to find it? So, instead of closing tabs we hoard them in fear that we will need them later, and won’t be able to find them.

This is a terrible state to live in, we should be able to find and reference the tabs we need seamlessly.

1. You can try searching your history
2. Using Partizion, you can search your history with the click of a button, or view you past sessions and tabs to quickly open them later.

You’re keeping tabs open to read later, reference later, share or otherwise user later

You’re working on a project and you come across an article, tweet, website, or interesting link that you want to share or read later. Save it to your bookmarks? Your bookmarks bar is full?

Try using a tab manager like Partizion that makes saving, sharing, and organizing links easy and enjoyable.

The solution

All in all, you need to be diligent in your work. Multitasking, keeping too many tabs open, and remaining disorganized will prove to be detrimental to your productivity and overall sanity. The best way to keep on top of things, stay organized, and crush your daily goals is to keep the things you work on clearly organized. Whether this means using separate windows, bookmarks, or a tab manager, you need to be disciplined in order to achieve maximum productivity.

If you are a designer, engineer, social media manager, teacher or student, writer, nomad, or entrepreneur, you should checkout our tab manager specifically built to help you keep your work organized and accessible. Its called Partizion because it helps you partition your work.

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