I never liked Bookmarks. I never liked setting up folders,
saving pages to just ignore them later. Out of sight, out of
mind. Seemed like a waste to me and so, instead of bookmarking,
I would have 40-50-60 tabs open at one time, just so I wouldn't
lose my place.
At the same time, I dreamed of something where it could save a
snapshot of everything I'm working on *RIGHT NOW* so I could put
it aside, then open ALL OF IT when I was ready to.
(I have ideas for multiple literal desktops - 18''x22'' trays
4'' tall where everything I'm working on with paperwork can be
kept exactly where I left off, but I digress
Well, I decided to ''get over'' my hatred of Bookmarks and see
if they could be my friend.
They can, and not only my friend, but a lifesaver. Literally.
Answer: *Save All Open Bookmarks'' and Give the Foldername Date
then Time.
Reason this works: Your Brain saves Spatial (where you or thing
around you are) and Temporal (time) things *The Best*. It's how
we're wired.
Thing like CATEGORIES, LABELS, FOLDERS, TITLES, MEMES, WORDS
even - literally use more brain processing power.
But we automatically categorize things in terms of WHERE and
WHEN.
We also AUTO-ASSOCIATE things that are LITERALLY together: In
the same Time AND Space. Not always things that are
CATEGORICALLY similar, although we do that too.
To put it simply, you will most easily be able to TIME TRAVEL
and continue your project where you left off if you can get back
to the SAME EXACT PLACE you were in when you last worked on it.
The MORE THINGS that are the same, the better your ability will
be to bring your mind BACK to where it was before so you can
continue where you left off.
This is the same thing that happens when you forget something
and you BACKTRACK - go back through doorways and rooms to go
back to the place where you originally _or_ last had ''that
thought'' - and suddenly *WOOM* it comes back to you like magic.
Again - the brain ANSWERS two questions:
''I left that thing WHERE?''
and
''I left that thing WHEN?''
This starts when we are babies. Peek-a-boo.
We build models of the world via the STREAMS of millions of
input bits coming in through the eyes and touch and ears and
touch and taste, but especially the EYES.
We build models of the world dot by dot by dot by dot in our
brain. These models take time to build, starting from when we're
babies.
One of the earliest things we learn, which you can see in the
peek-a-boo game is this: ''The thing I looked just now, will
STILL BE THERE when I look away and look back at it.''
Yes, it's not automatic. Out of sight, out of mind is LITERALLY
TRUE.
You have to learn that an object will be there when you stop
paying attention to it for a moment.
Since it is one of the earliest things we learn, ''Peek-a-boo''
is fun for babies. They laugh when you come back, because there
is just a MOMENT OF DOUBT in their brain that MAYBE, just MAYBE
you won't come back. And it's funny because you DO come back.
Then Peek-a-boo is funny when you make it longer and longer that
you are hiding, as they KNOW they're being tricked and they KNOW
you're coming back.
Long story short (TOO LATE KEN JUST GIVE ME THE TAB
INFORMATION): The first things that are encoded in your brain
TAGGED on to every BIT in the stream that comes in is:
SPACE AND TIME
or more specifically:
LOCATION and SEQUENCES (first this, then that, then that, then
that - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)
I know I repeated the same information several different times,
several different ways and they weren't critical to this tab
information. But as I am collecting my thoughts on this subject
for my research, I have to CATCH the lightning WHEREVER IT
COMES, WHEREVER and WHENEVER I am. And maybe, if someone finds
it interesting, all the better. But don't worry - the results of
my research will be MUCH MORE SIMPLY put than all of this. I
wrote all of this down AS I REALIZED IT. This is a BRAIN DUMP
that you just witnessed, right in the middle of showing you how
to do a simple task. It inspired me to write, so I wrote. My
patient nephew has been waiting for me to install a mod for
minecraft ALL THIS TIME (ABOUT A 1/2 HR) while I wrote this.
So, back to it:
So by grouping the tabs together, you are keeping the GROUP
together - that your brain has ASSOCIATED TOGETHER as ''one
clump'' as ''one thing''. It knows each of those tabs in
relation to the other tabs - even changing the order will
slightly mess up your memory of ''what you were doing at the
time'' a bit. (rather how moving the ball in the cup game one
place over or anoher makes it hard to find it)
And see all of that? This is how important this simple discovery
is for me. Years of frustration, solved simply. It's easy to
know what to do, once you know what to do. But not before you
know what to do.
In Firefox:
Type Control-Shift-D.
Type 05-11-2013 11:25am or whatever the date and time is.
Now you can close your tabs without fear of losing your place.
In Chrome,
Right click on any tab
''Bookmark All Tabs''
Type in 05-11-2013 11:25am or whatever the date and time is.
Now you can close your tabs without fear of losing your place.
