You'll be able to find the tab faster, avoid mistakenly closing the tab, and will always see the site's favicon-even if you have 50 other tabs open along with it. If a web app you use doesn't have a corresponding desktop or mobile app but you need it open often, you could pin the tab to your browser. Tested's Will Smith argues that 'Window management is faster and easier to use than tab management, whether you're on Windows, OS X, or Linux,' although he acknowledges that some types of apps are best in the browser, such as collaborative writing apps. As a bonus, using separate devices for distracting sites might help you stay focused during the day. Instead of dedicating a tab to Gmail, you could use an email app instead of keeping Twitter in a tab, use TweetDeck or reserve Twitter use to your phone and instead of using a web-based calendar, use a calendar app on your laptop. Web apps turned into desktop apps: Fluid, Campfire, Flickr, Fluther, Gmail, FriendFeed, github, Google Reader, Yahoo! Messenger, Muxtape, Tumblr, YouTube You might need to set up a weekly review to clean up and organize your digital collections. The only downside to this approach is instead of having an unmanageable number of open tabs, you might end up with an unmanageable number of bookmarks and notes that you possibly need only for a limited time. If you use Evernote's extension instead of browser bookmarks, not only will the page be saved as a note in Evernote, those notes can also be shown in search results when you use Google or another search engine. I make it a point to clean that folder out once a week or so.

The To File folder is for pages I know I want to keep long term and will find a place for them in my bookmark structure later. I have a keyboard shortcut set up to save it there. Most things I don't want to deal with right now go into the To Read folder. In that folder are folders named To Read, To Blog, To File. I use Firefox and keep all my bookmarks in folders on the bookmark toolbar. Walter Glenn, a tech writer at How-To Geek, suggested creating a set of folders for a reading workflow on Lifehacker: If the page open in a tab is less for reading and more for referencing in the future for a project, either bookmark the page into a special 'Work in Progress' or project-specific folder, or clip the page with a tool like Evernote's Web Clipper extension.

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