rabbit-holing

Noun

rabbit holing (uncountable)

1. The act of becoming distracted by, side-tracked, or lost in a long chain of online searches, links, or topics that often lead one away from their original goal.
   • Meandering writing can still have a lot of good points, good ideas, eloquent prose, but it is not as powerful or captivating as focused writing. Reading your own articles can reveal to you the extent and style of your own rabbit holing. Give your rabbit holes a life of their own2019 October 14, Marla Szwast, “How to Keep Your Writing Out of Rabbit Holes”, in The Writing Cooperative