Some of guys use VIM just like Eclipse - one IDE to rule them all. I don't like this approach - instead of this I rather work in couple of Tmux windows having exactly one VIM in each (usually top - left pane).

If you don't know what Tmux is and how it works check this crash course or this comparison between GNU Screen and Tmux.

So - instead of opening new VIM windows and sessions manually everytime I start my work I just start vim using bash function (placed in my zsh_profile):

$ vims session_name

This way I keep one session per task (just like I do with Tmux windows - think about those like feature branches in git!).

So the whole workflow looks like:

1. Create new tmux windows with my custom layout (using Tmuxinator)
2. Create feature branch in git repo
3. Open VIM in the top - left pane of VIM using session named exactly the same like feature branch

Yes - I could possibly remove the last step and include it into the tmux window creation, but remember - this is poor man's way ;)

And one more thing - I use vim-session plugin to handle sessions in VIM.

And the function code? See below:

vims() {
    _vim_sess_dir=~/.vim/sessions/
    if [ -z $1 ]; then
        echo "You must enter session name!"
        ls $_vim_sess_dir
    else
        _vim_sess=$_vim_sess_dir/$1
        if [ ! -f $_vim_sess ]; then
             cp $_vim_sess_dir/default.vim $_vim_sess
        fi
        vim -S $_vim_sess
    fi
}

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