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Updated March 27, 2024
You’ll get more done the next time you’re online if you don’t let tabs pile up — and there are simple tools that can help.
Keeping multiple tabs open on your computer because you may want to refer to them later, or because you’re juggling multiple projects, mainly slows down your browser and feeds your procrastination habit. Toggling between tabs and other forms of “media multitasking” can even disrupt a person’s working memory, according to a review of more than 20 studies, mainly in young adults, reported in 2018 in PNAS. That’s why Atlantic magazine came up with the concept of Tabless Thursday, describing the once-a-week strategy as “a vacation from distraction.”
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