I've got a portrait monitor connected to a laptop, so I end up splitting the monitor's pane vertically. I treat each workspace as dedicated for a specific purp

I've got a portrait monitor connected to a laptop, so I end up splitting the monitor's pane vertically. I treat each workspace as dedicated for a specific purpose - Dev, Browsing, Chat, etc. That gives me quick mnemonics to hop to each space: MOD+1, MOD+2, MOD+3, ... Within my Dev workspace, I use a tabbed pane for top-level organization: browsers (stacked), IDE, terminal, Emacs (magit + org), etc. This keeps my focus on that space when doing dev, and away from the laptop monitor, which is only occasionally useful as a reference. I'll occasionally stack a terminal beneath my IDE if the current task requires it, e.g. to test a deployment or a project task.