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I've only ever used window splits (<C-w> | _ = etc) and have never even tried to get used to tabs or non-visible buffers. Can anyone tell me whether there would be much benefit to changing my workflow?

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I was like you. I thought that tabs were useless. Now I use tabs. The workflow is to open 3 or 4 tabs, not more. For example, first tab rails app, second tab a gem used by the app, third tab my vimrc (I need to tweak constantly), fourth tab my todo list. Here you find my comment about it with a screenshot http://syskall.com/my-biggest-vim-productivity-boost/#commen...

I like the look of that set up. Tabs allow you to keep buffers open at a lower mental priority, right?

I think I'll try switching to "one tab per project", but stick with splits for individual files within a project.

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