Keeping Tabs Is Back

But it looks a little different.

Welcome to Keeping Tabs

This sounds familiar! For my UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Master’s Project in 2016 I created a newsletter (and website) that promised to “Keep up with everything interactive, multimedia and immersive online.” I did that for a few years, but now we’re moving onto the next phase.

The original KeepingTabs.online homepage from 2016. Screenshot/Sasha Lekach

Too Many Tabs

As friends and family know, I’m always sending links. It’s how I show I care and am paying attention to all the different types of people I know. I’m a true journalist and find almost any topic interesting, so I love when I have a connection to San Francisco autonomous vehicles, biotech, digital nomads, librarians, cryptocurrency, surfing, Belarus, Argentina economics…the list is endless. Combine that with my innate curiosity (I’m a reporter) and I want to share all the information I’m reading, collecting and stacking up on my browser tabs.

It’s a lot. Here’s a look at my tabs from this morning:

The many tabs. Screenshot/Sasha Lekach

Too Little Time

I’ll still send out links to my people, but Keeping Tabs will become a collecting space once a week or so for everyone to check out the hodgepodge of articles, podcast episodes, video clips, tweets/Threads (RIP, Twitter, my once-favorite platform) that I’m tabbing out to read in full or save for later. Think of this as your “to-read” list in email/newsletter form.

The goal is to categorize the many links so people can pick and choose what they want to keep tabs on.

It Might Get Messy

As one of my friends always says, I’m full of random facts. It’s likely this will get random very quickly. So many things captivate me. Here are just a few tabs sitting open:

• The Grand Canyon, a Cathedral to Time, Is Losing Its River (NYT)

• ‘Fame makes you paranoid’: Michael Cera on Barbie, drunk fans – and not owning a smartphone (Guardian)

• ‘This is our drug, we have to chase it’: This extreme new sport takes root in S.F. Bay (SF Chronicle)

• Timelapse Video of a Massive Cruise Ship Being Built (video)

Don’t ask me to find the connection between this small sample of links. You just have to go with it.

New Keeping Tabs, New Platform

In the past seven years since I created my newsletter on Mailchimp, things have changed. I’m giving Substack a shot and experimenting with a new platform that has changed the newsletter landscape. There’s an app if you want to bring this out of your inbox.

Welcome Back

All this to say, welcome back to Keeping Tabs. Let’s get into it, the tabs are piling up.

Happy birthday to my sister, Maya!

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