Even though we tell ourselves these things aren’t distracting us, they really are. It forced me to stop having videos playing in the background while I was working (a bad habit of mine). Instead of flicking through tabs at the speed of light, causing my brain to multitask on 800 things at once, I started to slow down and pay more attention to what I was actually trying to accomplish. That way, I was constantly reminded of my goal, and I slowly started to be more conscious of when I was clicking the New Tab button. The only way I could prevent myself from mindlessly wandering onto Pinterest was to have a post-it right by my computer that said ONE TAB. Not a very creative bookmark name, but it helped to get rid of the clutter. If the tab I had open was a physical website rather than a single article, I would save it to a bookmark in my browser called ‘View Later’. When you have time to watch the videos, just go to the ‘Watch Later’ tab in the left sidebar of youtube. If you see a video in the sidebar that sounds appealing, click the little clock in the bottom right corner. If you’ve already started watching the video, all you have to do is click the ‘Add To’ button, then check the ‘Watch Later’ playlist which youtube automatically creates for you. If I realized that I had more than one tab open, I instantly hit the Pocket button and closed the tab.
#STAYFOCUSED FOR COMPUTER NOT JUST BROSWER INSTALL#
All you have to do is install the browser app then click the ‘Pocket’ button when you find an article or post you want to read later. Pocket is my absolute favorite tool to keep track of anything I want to save for later. Today, I’m sharing how I survived the one-tab challenge and how YOU can declutter your browser too! The Tools That Helped So, to let my brain take a break, I thought I’d give this one-tab challenge a shot and see if it made me more productive.ĭid I succeed for the whole month? Mostly. I’m not superhuman, so there were many occasions where I went, ‘ Oh crap, I have 8 tabs open right now.’ But I just had to be more conscious of what I was doing and figure out ways to close the tabs without losing information. And if your computer can’t handle it, you better believe your brain can’t either. It’s a sign that you’re tying to get too much information at once. I’m sure you’ve experienced a time when you had so many browser tabs open that your computer just gave up on life and crashed. Plus, I have a terrible habit of opening a new tab and going to Facebook while another page is loading (I need instant results, Google), and then I forget what I was trying to do in the first place. When I have a lot of tabs open, I feel like I have to click, read, and close all of them before I can actually get to work.
I know you’re probably thinking, ‘ Catherine, why the heck would you want to torture yourself like that?‘Įssentially, it’s because I kept getting distracted. I had comments from people saying they had at least 10 tabs open, and that they couldn’t even imagine what one tab would look like. I’ll admit, I wasn’t entirely sure it was possible, but I’m not one to back down from a decluttering challenge!
When I announced this in a blog post, everyone thought I was completely insane. One of my goals for June was to keep only one browser tab open at a time.
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