Is there a solution to the madness of the endless open tabs? When it comes to academic references, most of us do know that we need to use a reference manager of some sort to keep things organized, be it Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote. But for anyone who has actually tried organizing the hundreds of links that we have to deal with via browser bookmarks, you would know that it is not optimal. Sure, there is the option of creating bookmarks on the browsers. Sometimes we even email the links to ourselves, adding to the number of unread messages in our inboxes. We click and click and similarly, we end up with multiple open tabs that we promise ourselves to go back to. On our phones, we scroll through academic Twitter and Facebook, and we see more links to newly published articles, interesting conferences, and exciting databases that we should check out for our research. We click and click and before we know it, we have opened dozens of pages that are too important to close: websites for grant applications, links to register for upcoming zoom talks, or the webpage for that new book that just came out in our field that we definitely need to read. I believe that I am not the only person who often ends up having multiple tabs open on my browser after a day of falling into research rabbit holes.

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