Feeling lost without tabs

[Sampath Weerasinghe]

Hi,

I'm slowly migrating from notepad++ to emacs.

I feel a bit lost because emacs doesn't show
tabs. I work on multiple projects, I get distracted by various things,
but when I come back to the seat it is the tabs that
remind me which project I was last working on.

I know C-x C-b pops it up, but involves multiple keys and it also
takes a a lot of screen real estate.

I'm wondering how others overcame this.

-Sam