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by rtmx 54 days ago
I think a good way to treat tabs and open files in other apps is like the 'zero inbox' when 'open' means 'do something about it', it's your task list.

Hence, I could never understand how people have more than like 20 tabs open — what are you working on in this case? For myself, I only go to 20-ish territories when aggressively looking for docs or opening something for quick batch-like extraction, it's a very short-timed situation.

Usually it's just three pinned mailboxes and something I'm currently on, like 2-5 tabs, one of them is likely a search engine.