[eivarv]

I'm currently trying to solve this and more in an application called Cleave.

https://cleave.app

Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level.

I started working on it because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources; Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

In the meantime, I've used various browser extensions to save and restore open tabs.

[justinc8687]

How does this compare to virtual desktops? Isn't this their main use?

[eivarv]

Compared to virtual desktops, this allows you to close down apps (consume less resources) as well as maintain multiple working context-specific application states.