I Had 6 Side Projects Open in One Browser Window. Here's What That Was Costing Me.

I Had 6 Side Projects Open in One Browser Window. Here's What That Was Costing Me.

I counted once, on a normal Tuesday. 41 tabs, one window, six different side projects. A repo here, a localhost there, a Stripe dashboard, two Notion pages, a half-read Stack Overflow thread I was scared to close.

I was using a tab manager to hold it all together. Save the session, restore it later, feel organized. It worked, in the sense that nothing got lost. But something was off, and it took me a while to name it.

The tab manager was keeping my tabs. It was not keeping my projects. And the gap between those two things was quietly costing me.

The number that bothered me