Without addons, I “solve“ this by opening a separate window for each train of thought. When it comes time to go Marie Kondo I either close the window or bookmark all of the tabs for later.
This works great at home. At work I’m constantly fishing for which window some bit of information I currently need is in (though I’m not sure one window would fix that any better). So even MMMV.
So many health and monitoring tools have a web UI these days. Someone chats about a server acting weird, you’re in the chat, looking at logs and graphs in several spots, maybe using your own app, looking at commits in several modules, and looking up error messages online. Spread out across 2-4 screens.
Plus there’s whatever feature or bug fixes you were working on before that all started, and the research you were doing for a ticket you want to propose, and you have to get back to those when you’re done.
And somewhere there’s a window with this HN post you have to find again in order to respond.
This works great at home. At work I’m constantly fishing for which window some bit of information I currently need is in (though I’m not sure one window would fix that any better). So even MMMV.