Close Windows when quitting.... Full screen

Hey all!
Has anyone figured out how to default to open apps in full screen without useing the "Close Windows when quitting...." option in preferences. I'd love to have my apps default to full screen when opening without opening every tab I had open previously in safari, or every image I've looked at going back whos knows how long in Preview. The past 5 documents I worked on in InDesign. I could go on. You get the point. Its a cool feature but defaulting to full screen and reopend ll previous windows have no realation and should be two different settings/features. Its really annoying.
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Hmmm.... It already tells you exactly what it does.
What more do you want to know?

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