As someone that's been down this rabbit hole a few times, I'm hopeful for your success but I have my doubts. Mainly down to 2 reasons:
1. The bookmarks pane makes obfuscation too easy. Most of us who fall into this trap do so because of the collectors fallacy. Tabs force us to choose between keeping everything we see versus seeing what we need to see. Bookmarks can be infinitely filed away into neat folders which hide the complexity, so instead of deleting you tend to file something away. The immediate effect is the same as closing a tab, you can see more clearly what you want to see, but long term your bookmark system becomes unmanagable, and slowly your tab count begins to increase again, as your brain says "no seriously I want to read this later, dont put it in there with the rest of the fluff".
I know this because even after I gave up on bookmarks it continued to haunt me, after chrome introduced tab groups. They have the same effect, they hide the complexity behind folders that after a while are so clogged up that they're useless, and you go back to old patterns.
2. The reason why tabs work effectively as a kind of todo list is because tabs are how you navigate the browser anyway. Though bookmarks have been included feature of browsers for a very long time, their not required. What I'm trying to say is, you obviously wont be replacing the entire concept of tabs with bookmarks, you still need to use tabs, even if (and I'd say this is a massive if) you only ever have 1 tab open. Which then means you'll be managing 2 systems for multitasking, one of which is significantly easier than the other.
As for pruning being faster with bookmarks, I'd disagree. I do use a suspender, but I usually dont even need to click the tab (if I do, I have it set so going to the tab doesn't auto-unsuspend it, it shows me the title and the suspension screen). I just see the favicon and the first 5-10 letters and can take a good enough guess what it is, and then middle click it from the tab Im currently on and its gone. I never have 100+ tabs open on one window, I tend to split them out (currenly I have 3 windows, each with a varying number of tabs, generally for context switching).
But, maybe things will end better for you, and I genuinely hope they do, but for me, its become a part of my life I've decided not to optimise and instead just embrace the chaos if it feels right :)
1. The bookmarks pane makes obfuscation too easy. Most of us who fall into this trap do so because of the collectors fallacy. Tabs force us to choose between keeping everything we see versus seeing what we need to see. Bookmarks can be infinitely filed away into neat folders which hide the complexity, so instead of deleting you tend to file something away. The immediate effect is the same as closing a tab, you can see more clearly what you want to see, but long term your bookmark system becomes unmanagable, and slowly your tab count begins to increase again, as your brain says "no seriously I want to read this later, dont put it in there with the rest of the fluff".
I know this because even after I gave up on bookmarks it continued to haunt me, after chrome introduced tab groups. They have the same effect, they hide the complexity behind folders that after a while are so clogged up that they're useless, and you go back to old patterns.
2. The reason why tabs work effectively as a kind of todo list is because tabs are how you navigate the browser anyway. Though bookmarks have been included feature of browsers for a very long time, their not required. What I'm trying to say is, you obviously wont be replacing the entire concept of tabs with bookmarks, you still need to use tabs, even if (and I'd say this is a massive if) you only ever have 1 tab open. Which then means you'll be managing 2 systems for multitasking, one of which is significantly easier than the other.
As for pruning being faster with bookmarks, I'd disagree. I do use a suspender, but I usually dont even need to click the tab (if I do, I have it set so going to the tab doesn't auto-unsuspend it, it shows me the title and the suspension screen). I just see the favicon and the first 5-10 letters and can take a good enough guess what it is, and then middle click it from the tab Im currently on and its gone. I never have 100+ tabs open on one window, I tend to split them out (currenly I have 3 windows, each with a varying number of tabs, generally for context switching).
But, maybe things will end better for you, and I genuinely hope they do, but for me, its become a part of my life I've decided not to optimise and instead just embrace the chaos if it feels right :)