More than 6,000 just on my phone. No tabs groups. I only use that browser for recreation. It’s an undifferentiated stream of “things that look interesting” and I may or may not ever look at the tabs again, which is fine.
Far fewer on browsers I use for productive pursuits, but hundreds across multiple windows and many tab groups. I have a lot of projects, and haven’t found a great way ‘shelve’ and ‘unshelve’ them.
I’m the same way. Phone is around 250 right now because I cleared out all open tabs about a year ago — was never going to look at them again.
About 20-50 open on the personal laptop at a given moment, bursting higher when researching or troubleshooting something. Work computer has more like 75 as baseline, bursting to a couple hundred. Every now and then I very briefly get that back below 20.
A lot. Often a couple dozen for pages that are currently queued up to read, with pages further to the left being older and often forgotten (or they're pages that I would like to have read, but don't want to take the time to read, and I haven't accepted that distinction yet). Another window might have reference material for whatever I'm working on. If I've only got one page open there, it usually means that I'm not deep into the process.
On my work computer, at least four - one each for the web apps, like Notion or Monday.com in which I'm working. Sometimes, I have a couple of tabs open for each app.
On my own computer, two maybe three - one for email, one for Nextcloud, and whatever one I'm using for browsing.
About 20- 40 open for office laptop. It's for my memory and context switching.
More than 6,000 just on my phone. No tabs groups. I only use that browser for recreation. It’s an undifferentiated stream of “things that look interesting” and I may or may not ever look at the tabs again, which is fine.
Far fewer on browsers I use for productive pursuits, but hundreds across multiple windows and many tab groups. I have a lot of projects, and haven’t found a great way ‘shelve’ and ‘unshelve’ them.
I’m the same way. Phone is around 250 right now because I cleared out all open tabs about a year ago — was never going to look at them again.
About 20-50 open on the personal laptop at a given moment, bursting higher when researching or troubleshooting something. Work computer has more like 75 as baseline, bursting to a couple hundred. Every now and then I very briefly get that back below 20.
A whole bunch of them. Because they all seem “useful” and I’m not “done” with them yet.
A lot. Often a couple dozen for pages that are currently queued up to read, with pages further to the left being older and often forgotten (or they're pages that I would like to have read, but don't want to take the time to read, and I haven't accepted that distinction yet). Another window might have reference material for whatever I'm working on. If I've only got one page open there, it usually means that I'm not deep into the process.
On my work computer, at least four - one each for the web apps, like Notion or Monday.com in which I'm working. Sometimes, I have a couple of tabs open for each app.
On my own computer, two maybe three - one for email, one for Nextcloud, and whatever one I'm using for browsing.
For me it’s usually not about the number, it’s about unfinished decisions.
Most tabs are just “I’ll come back to this”, and they pile up because I never actually decide to either use it or drop it.
Right this second, four.
Mail, Hermes Agent Dashboard, ESPN draft tracker, HN
I harvest tabs mercilessly, I either read and close or if its something I want to keep I have the bot clip into my obsidian vault