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   Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 09:11:28 JST Matthew Lyon

   For the first time in … oh, I don’t know how long, I have zero browser tabs open. Across all my devices.

   It took two days but I went through them all – and I’m glad I didn’t just close them! – but anything I wanted to reference later ended up in Obsidian.

   IDK if it’s an ADHD thing or having grown up among hoarding or what but seriously, I had tabs open from *before my 9.5y/o was born*. So much shit I didn’t need anymore, but some real gems buried in there and I’m glad I went through them all.

   Anyway, now I have to build up a discipline for keeping it this way, same as with my email inbox

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     Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 09:16:58 JST Matthew Lyon

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     my therapist told me I should write up a thing on how I use Obsidian as a person with ADHD and I’m beginning to think she was right

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     Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 09:38:33 JST Matthew Lyon

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     • JohnB

     @johnb iCloud tabs – and whatever Safari did before – were not necessarily a good thing

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     JohnB (johnb@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 09:38:34 JST JohnB

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     @mattly over 9 years! I’m impressed that the browser remembered it for so long, after (presumably) many restarts of browser machine

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     Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 09:53:35 JST Matthew Lyon

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     • Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

     @janl for many people it may not be

     for myself, well, it’s in a place where I know I can find it *when* I want to find it again

     part of my problem perhaps is too many interests, and I don’t want to give any of them up. Notes on making a chorus circuit with a weird karaoke chip? Some Rust game engine that someone I respect recommended? *sigh* some sort of frontend thing? Notes on a new type of dataviz? Well, there may well be a day when I wish I could come back to that

     keeping tabs open had been my default because I didn’t have anywhere else to put them; what I did over the past few days was *make* places to put them. Obsidian also has a cool web clipper extension that renders whole web pages to markdown, and then I can link those notes to project or area pages

     Will it be useful to put all those into notes? I don’t know, but if it’s useful even 1/100th of a time it’s worth it to me, especially since I’m of the sort where I’ll end up searching for an answer to a question only to find that the only other person to ask it was me, ten years previously

     I don’t really have a nice way to search/organize/index open browser tabs. I do have a really nice way to do all that with markdown files

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     Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 09:53:36 JST Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

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     @mattly I’m curious to learn if having things filed away is actually useful. My pile feels like growing and I’m not yet convinced being able to refer back is of any actual use.