It's nice to hide tabs in all your programs

⚠️ This is a draft. It's probably not very good. I'll post about it when it's done! ⚠️

Here's my web browser:

TODO screenshot

And here's my notes app, Obsidian:

TODO screenshot

And here's my text editor of choice, Neovim:

TODO screenshot

What's missing? Well, a lot, maybe, but specifically:

TODO screenshots of just the tab bar of each

I used to think this was absurd. When I first used Spacemacs, I felt very lost because I couldn't see the files I had open. (I also felt very lost because I was using Spacemacs.)

Then one day I tried the "Cycle (tabs) in Recently Used Order" setting in Vivaldi.

TODO screenshot

It was awesome. I realised how I'd been suffering all these years, tabbing slowly left-to-right or right-to-left.

Some time later, I realised that I never actually need to look at the tabs in my bar, because I had long stopped clicking on them with the mouse. The only reason they were there was so I could arrange them neatly:

TODO screenshot

It occurred to me that this arrangement was a prison of my own creation. What if I just didn't care? It would be distracting and visually confusing, right? But... I could disable tabs entirely.

TODO screenshot of setting

I tried it. It worked great. The main things I needed to be able to actually use the browser were:

TODO screenshot of Ctrl+E thingy