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Multiple monitors. Every time I'm away from my 3-monitor set up, I feel vastly less productive for most (but not all) tasks.
by keiferski 2y ago
Multiple monitors. Every time I'm away from my 3-monitor set up, I feel vastly less productive for most (but not all) tasks.
- nozzlegear 2y agoI’m feeling kind of the opposite lately. I’ve been considering going to a single monitor setup, because I feel distracted by everything that’s not on my primary monitor. I keep all of my “focus” items on the primary, and non-focus items (slack, discord, calendar, etc.) on the secondary monitor.
- keiferski 2y agoMaybe I should have elaborated further. I do a lot of tasks where I need to switch between 3 or 4 different windows/programs frequently. On a single screen laptop, this quickly becomes tedious, but on a multi monitor setup it’s much easier to keep everything organized.
- noashavit 2y agoSame here. Consolidating to one BIG monitor
- ActorNightly 2y agoThe productivity aspect that he is talking about doesn't have to do with focus. Its significantly faster to work on anything with more screen real estate.
- nozzlegear 2y agoMy primary monitor is 5k, so I have a lot of real estate. But even still I mostly organize things into virtual desktops with two windows each, e.g. browser + notes, vim/ide + documentation, obsidian + notes or references on whatever I’m writing about. If I don’t do that I get distracted way too easily, not even counting the stuff on the secondary monitor. Squirrel brain or something.