Meme: What's in your tabs?

[st_aurafina]

Things are a bit garbage at the moment: there are triggery upcoming medical things, and my anxiety is off the rails as we wait for appointments and further investigations. I'm trying to find myself a sympathetic LGBTQI-aware GP (I know, right? My own unicorn hunt) and I think I've found a possibility but my appointment isn't for a couple of weeks. I really need to be back on meds, but I want a better option than seeing the doctors I work with. (They're perfectly cromulent doctors, though clueless on the queer front, plus it's hard to discuss stuff like self-harm with someone you work with.)

Have a meme, via mergatrude:
Do you live your life with too many tabs open? All this stuff you want to read, all this stuff at your fingertips, all the heartbreak when your browser crashes. List your open tabs, or a handful of them, just to share, or to motivate you.

In my tabs on my work laptop:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox
https://st-aurafina.dreamwidth.org/read
https://www.dreamwidth.org/entry/new
https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/379344.html
https://ask.metafilter.com/324977/Please-rec-me-your-fabulous-fanfiction
https://play2048.co/
https://www.facebook.com/
https://tagcrowd.com/
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/multifandomdrabble2019_2/tags/Dracula%20-%20Bram%20Stoker/works
https://campnanowrimo.org/cabins/current
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/search#craft=crochet&weight=bulky&availability=free&pc=cowl&sort=projects&view=captioned_thumbs&page=2
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/coraline-in-morocco-cowl
https://simplycollectiblecrochet.com/2014/11/coraline-morocco-one-skein-cowl-crochet-pattern/

I got the metafilter link from mergatrude's meme post, though I've had it open before. It's a good collection of recs.

2048 is my writing game. It's perfect for writing - not too diverting. It lets me zone out enough that my plot brain can spin a few wheels and churn out some ideas but then I get frustrated/bored quickly enough that I'm back to writing again in no time.

I'm still reading through multifandom drabble - there are so many good things there!!

And crochet. It helps keep me sane. I've just finished the cowl that's in my tabs - it needs blocking, but it came out nice! Very stretchy and light, but will protect my neck from dread breezes.


[Crocheted cowl in blue/white/grey yarn]



Meanwhile, I'm concentrating on keeping up with Camp NaNo and my weekly podcastjoy post. And not chickening out on posting chapters of my very long fic.

Comments

[torachan]

Damn you for linking to 2048 lol. I managed to just play one game and close the window, though.

I can't stand having a bunch of tabs open. I only keep my main tabs open and anything else gets dealt with and closed right away. Pinned tabs are personal email, work email, todo list, and meme. I will sometimes have a tab open with a youtube video, and then I have my main tab that I use to go to whatever I'm currently doing, and that's it. When I hear about people having dozens or hundreds of tabs it just makes me physically recoil. XD I don't know how people can do it!

[lilacsigil]

Yes! I currently have 6 tabs open and that's more than usual! st_aurafina is the tab fiend in our house.

[st_aurafina]

I'm pretty good these days, now that I can't have rows of tabs. RIP Tabmixplus chokesob.

[pauraque]

Same. I normally just have tabs for email, DW, and gdocs. After I'm done looking at something I close the tab. (I do bookmark a lot of things and forget they're there, but that doesn't set off my clutter alarm the way tabs too.)

[torachan]

I never bookmark stuff to go back and read because I know I never will. Out of sight, out of mind. XD

[pauraque]

You are wise.

[dine]

sorry about the garbage-ness - I hope your unicorn hunt goes well!

interesting meme - I'll likely do this once I'm back in town

I love the colours in that cowl - so beautifully muted

[st_aurafina]

The cowl is a great pattern - I've made a few of them since. Very quick and easy!

[untonuggan]

sending good thoughts you find a new gp soon!

[st_aurafina]

Thank you! Seeing a potential candidate on Monday, fingers crossed.

[vass]

I wish I could recommend my GP's clinic to you, but that'd be a very long commute. And I'm sorry things are garbage. ♥ Best wishes for the new appointment, and all the other medical stuff. I hope it works out really well. Hugs?

Your cowl looks great. I love the big stitches, and the colorway of the yarn.

2048 is my "on the phone" game. Especially on hold, but sometimes talking too. Not absorbing enough to distract me from the conversation, enough fidget to keep me from going out of my mind.

[st_aurafina]

That would be a very long commute! Worth it for a good doctor, maybe.

I've gone with the GP that I know trans patients feel okay with, so she's at least some flavour of queer-friendly, though technically she's a specialist in adolescent health, so I don't know if she's queer adult friendly? But she once rang me up to ask if I knew a sympathetic nurse who would be okay to do T injections for a very anxious teenager so at least there's some compassion and understanding there? IDK.

[smallhobbit]

Best wishes for the unicorn hunt.

I'm not a tab person, so it's email and Twitter and maybe tabs relevant to what I'm writing. So research tabs or references if it's a blog post.

[st_aurafina]

Thank you!

It's so interesting how people work their tabs! Some minimalists, some... maximalists?

[redbird]

Tabs: local weather from Weather Underground; this tab, which I think of as the main one, and will also have anything from local news to Astronomy Picture of the Day to random work-related googling; the Guardian Cryptic Crossword from a few years ago (I'm starting somewhat in the past so as not to run out of puzzles, since I sometimes do 2 or 3 in a day); my Twitter feed; the Chicago Wildlife Watch at Zooniverse; Greyhound.com, with my eticket for next month.

Weather, "main," the cryptics, and twitter are more or less permanent, and the first two I look at frequently.

[st_aurafina]

That is so smart, to start with old crosswords. I like the Guardian crossword, though I can't do the cryptic. (Not for want of trying? I want to be a cryptic crossword person...)

[lurkingcat]

I had to make myself stop leaving tabs open for things that I wanted to read because then I just ended up with more tabs open than my browser could cope with. So now I have a Read This Next bookmark folder. Which is enormous even though I go treasure diving through it on a regular basis.

I hope the hunt for Dr Unicorn is successful and that things get less garbage for you soon.

[st_aurafina]

Ohhh, that's a great idea with the bookmark folder. It would be a source of much treasure!

Thanks - I am seeing a potential doctor on Monday.

[umadoshi]

I'm sorry things are rough right now. *hugs* I wish you all the luck with your unicorn hunt.

[st_aurafina]

Thank you! Going to see a prospective unicorn on Monday.

[talkingtothesky]

I currently have 13 tabs open, most of them AO3 things I need to read / comment on. For many years I've been in the habit of keeping too many tabs while cursing my browser for being slow. \o/ 13 is actually pretty good for me. I've been known to have FAR more.

[st_aurafina]

Yeah, losing the ability to have rows and rows of tabs was actually good for me, in the end? Despite all the cursing. I read things a little more quickly than I used to. A little...

[tinny]

with someone you work with

Oh, I thought you meant "your usual doctors", but you mean colleagues. OMG nope, definitely look for someone else who doesn't know you. I hope you find a good one, and that you can get back on useful meds.

Also: that meme just stole two hours of my day and made me discover a new Firefox Addon. I'm calling it a win! <3

[st_aurafina]

Yeah, it's complicated in such a small town - we all have to rely on each other to some extent, but I think I need an outside POV now.

Yay for a new Firefox addon! They're so great.

[out_there]

*hugs*

[st_aurafina]

*hugs back*

[corvidology]

Good luck with the hunt!

[st_aurafina]

Thank you!