IDE style navigation (tab reuse on link opening, tab management, switch to already open note)

[Djo]

I’ve written here a post about “tab addiction”, why endless feature requests on tabs are expected:

Disable Tabs Altogether

Here is a screenshot of available settings in Vivaldi regarding tabs: [20230212-dim.10h43-01] Now that tabs have been introduced in Obsidian, you’ll have endless feature requests for new tab options and behaviors, like these (not exhaustive): You’ll have endless feature requests about tab grouping, tab stacking, tab searching, tab syncing, workspaces, cycling behavior, shortcuts and mouse gesture with tabs, etc. And with the addition of panes (tab groups), edit and view modes, that will …

and I think this feature request here is a very good one to illustrate the idea.

Please, could you explain precisely why the following behavior:

1. “When I click on a link it is open in another tab”

really helps your workflow (and I even omit the rest of the FR), instead of:

2. “When I click on a link it is open in the current tab”

?

In both cases you have direct access to the target note and the previous note is not displayed anymore.

In case (1) you have to manage a (new) tab:

• close it after reading (but with no certainty of what will be the behavior when you’ll close it. Will the former tab will be then the active tab? Not sure. Maybe another FR will be needed for that?)
• leave it open, return to the former tab with a mouse click or by Ctrl+tab or Ctrl+Shift+tab (not super handy when there are several tabs opened).
• at some points you will have several open tabs that you’ll have to close because become useless.

In case (2) the note opens in the same tab.

• to go back and forth between the new note open and the previous: forward and backward (super handy, universal shortcuts with the keyboard and some mouse)
• no tabs to manage / close, no weird tab behavior to care about, simple and 100% predictable workflow.

And if you want to see both notes at the same time you just have to open a note in another pane.

Please explain why solution (1) is better for your workflow. Maybe there’s something I’m missing. It seems to me that it is more complicated, and that we are here in full in the logic of the “tab addiction”. We absolutely want to use tabs, because if it’s there it is necessarily more efficient. But because it lacks a lot of fluidity in use, a lot of options become necessary so we ask for gas plants.
While simple and ergonomic solutions are available, at hand, but they are denigrated because we absolutely want to use the tabs.

PS: Sorry if my post in considered as trolling. Well, it is in a sense. But maybe it is good too to question the real relevancy of the usages.