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Instead of feeling nervous that you missed something because you let a tab close, feel confident that you will be able to rediscover it using your browser history.
Except the browser history only goes back 6 months. I keep tabs open so I can find them again more than 6 months later. Every 18 months or so I'll somehow lose my tabs (browser crash, opening multiple windows and closing them in the wrong order, etc), and I'll use that as a fresh start.
I tend to utilise a few windows on varying topics with maybe 10 tabs on any window and I rarely breach about 15 tabs total. I have 5 pinned tabs. That is it, maybe it is because I worked with computers that had 16MB of RAM but I don't tend to keep much open these days despite the 32GB of RAM the machine provides as I just don't find it productive once the tabs are reduced down to nothing but their icon, the title text is an important guide.
I felt this: I have way too many tabs open on every platform I own. One way to combat the “but I want to look at that later!” feeling was to start being aggressive about filing them in either Instapaper (for things to read) or Raindrop.io (for reference stuff). Then I know I _can_ find it later if I actually turn out to need it (which, anecdotally, is about 25% of the time) and I can confidently close the tab and move on.
The one-tab extension solved my tab problem. Since it saves the list of closed tabs, I don't feel like I'm losing my open tabs, even if I never take another look at them.
For me an open unpinned tab is either a TODO or unorganized information. The way to close it is to write down notes about it or turn it into a TODO.
This is exactly the use case BrainTool[0] was built for. From its Bookmarker you can set a TODO and/or add a note as you close a tab and save it into the Topic Manager. Everything is saved to a private personal plain text file. I'm actively soliciting feedback so do please check it out!