Ambiguity : previewing / opening

The current way Devonthink previews in the active tab every document I select in the navigator list is counterintuitive to me.

Take the very frequent use case : I am looking/working at some doc in the active tab and then I think of some other doc, try to navigate to it and loose my initial doc … I know it’s possible to create a new tab and only then navigate to another doc, yet I was wondering if another tabs concept would be possible to clearly distinguish between “previewing while navigating” and “opening items in tabs”:

  • a “preview” tab is physically separated from the list of normal tabs.
  • next to it lies a button to open the currently previewed document into a separate tab

just an input,
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You could navigate back to the document afterwards via the navigation bar (or path bar). Another possibility might be to open documents in tabs (see Data > Open In Tabs) or to open a second window.

Thanks I am aware of those possibilities yet they requires a lot of attention and clicks.

I am looking for something more intuitive.