Ask HN: How do you manage unsaved files in a text editor?

I used to save to my desktop folder, the TODOs, logs copy pasted from different places and various other things which I thought were important enough to refer back some day but not that important to save them in specific folders. This led to my desktop being completely cluttered after a while.

Then I found SublimeText editor where you dont have to explicitly save the files and yet you dont lose the content upon restart. I know it internally saves it to its internal folders, but the fact that I didn't have to explicitly save it made things easier.

Been using it for around a year now and have ended up with numerous tabs in the editor, each one for the many unsaved data. It's reached a point where it's become unmanagable switching through those tabs for the files I want to get to or even finding out which of those files contain what unsaved data.

Has anyone of you found yourself in similar situation? What tool(s) do you use and how do you manage such (text) data?

FWIW, I use LinuxMint for my OS.