Notice the tab
Name what is taking up room without turning yourself into the problem.
The idea
What are mental tabs?
Mental tabs are the open loops you carry through the day: forms, snacks, bills, work thoughts, old conversations, birthdays, laundry, replies and the quiet wish for five minutes to yourself.
Explore the full Life in Tabs MethodA way to handle an open tab
Put it somewhere
Write it on a page, list or prompt so it does not keep looping.
Make one thing lighter
Choose one small action—or decide clearly that it can wait.
Life in Tabs
The 5-minute open tabs reset
1. Empty the open tabs
Write everything your brain keeps reopening.
2. Sort what is loudest
Choose today, later, share or release.
3. One small reset
Choose the smallest next step that would make something easier.
Start with the free brain dump page.
A five-minute page for moving the noise onto paper.