billbenson
08-16-2008, 02:05 PM
This was a post I started based on the quote below from a different thread, but I thought it would make a good new thread:
Tabs are great. For anyone that doesn't use them, when I reboot my computer I first open my email program so it appears on the bottom left of my screen. I then open notepad (actually I use editpad, but its the same sort of thing). When a customer calls I always take notes in edit pad. Then I open a FireFox instance in that I open tabs for forums, cnn, non work related stuff.Then I open and instance of FireFox for web design related stuff. After that I open a firefox instance for sales related stuff. After that it becomes pretty random. By the end of the day I usually have the bottom littered with stuff open, but when I take a break for a minute I know the first ff has forums and news, second one is web design, and the third one is sales.
It would be nice to be able to close everything and reboot every night but I usually can't . I may have several quotes open that I am waiting for the customer to call me with a credit card for example. Eventually I will have to, because I have an older computer and not that much ram. After about 3 days the computer will freeze.
When I do reboot, I make sure I have saved anything important and close any unimportant tabs manually. I may have an article open i want to read but haven't gotten to yet. I leave that open. I then click on the first firefox tab and then reboot.
When the computer comes back up, I reopen my email and editpad. Then I click on the firefox icon. It will say restore sessions. Click on "restore sessions" and it will reopen all of my firefox instances and all of my tabs with one click.
Note that when I did the restart, I first clicked on the left most firefox instance first. Thats required to open all the tabs in the same order.
Everything comes back up in the same order. The article I wanted to read is there. I bounce back to forums or the news throughout the day when I want to take a 5 min break. Helps keep me organized.
I do exactly the same thing, vangogh, I usually leave a tab for this forum open all day and check back regularly. I used to just keep using the bookmark, but with issues I was having before, I got used to the tab approach even though I'm not having the issues any more.
Tabs are great. For anyone that doesn't use them, when I reboot my computer I first open my email program so it appears on the bottom left of my screen. I then open notepad (actually I use editpad, but its the same sort of thing). When a customer calls I always take notes in edit pad. Then I open a FireFox instance in that I open tabs for forums, cnn, non work related stuff.Then I open and instance of FireFox for web design related stuff. After that I open a firefox instance for sales related stuff. After that it becomes pretty random. By the end of the day I usually have the bottom littered with stuff open, but when I take a break for a minute I know the first ff has forums and news, second one is web design, and the third one is sales.
It would be nice to be able to close everything and reboot every night but I usually can't . I may have several quotes open that I am waiting for the customer to call me with a credit card for example. Eventually I will have to, because I have an older computer and not that much ram. After about 3 days the computer will freeze.
When I do reboot, I make sure I have saved anything important and close any unimportant tabs manually. I may have an article open i want to read but haven't gotten to yet. I leave that open. I then click on the first firefox tab and then reboot.
When the computer comes back up, I reopen my email and editpad. Then I click on the firefox icon. It will say restore sessions. Click on "restore sessions" and it will reopen all of my firefox instances and all of my tabs with one click.
Note that when I did the restart, I first clicked on the left most firefox instance first. Thats required to open all the tabs in the same order.
Everything comes back up in the same order. The article I wanted to read is there. I bounce back to forums or the news throughout the day when I want to take a 5 min break. Helps keep me organized.
I do exactly the same thing, vangogh, I usually leave a tab for this forum open all day and check back regularly. I used to just keep using the bookmark, but with issues I was having before, I got used to the tab approach even though I'm not having the issues any more.