Close browser tabs untouched for 24+ hours during daily…

When This Fires

• During daily workspace reset (end of day or start of day)
• When browser performance degrades (too many tabs consuming RAM)
• When you can't find tabs because there are too many to scan
• Complements Declare information bankruptcy when backlog exceeds daily… (information bankruptcy) with the daily prevention that avoids reaching bankruptcy levels

Common Failure Mode

"I might need that tab later": keeping tabs open as insurance against future need. But tabs-as-insurance is unreliable (you can't find the tab in 60+ tabs anyway), resource-intensive (each tab consumes RAM and cognitive tracking), and unnecessary (anything important enough to keep can be bookmarked or saved to your reference system in 5 seconds).

The Protocol

(1) At the end of each workday (or start of the next), scan all open tabs. (2) For each tab: "Did I interact with this in the last 24 hours?" Yes → keep. It's actively relevant. No → close. If the content might be needed later, bookmark it or save to your reference system (Route actionable items to your task system and reference…) before closing. (3) Target: end the reset with 5-10 tabs maximum, all actively relevant to current work. (4) Use tab extensions (OneTab, Tab Suspender) to make the reset easier: bulk-save all tabs as a list, then close. The list serves as a safety net if you need to recover a closed tab. (5) After 2 weeks of daily resets, check: how often have you actually needed a tab you closed? If rarely → the reset is correctly calibrated. If frequently → bookmark more aggressively before closing.