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This great I would love to work on the sunny day outside but it feels so limiting after leaving my 3 monitors desks. It feels like I spend more time switching w

This great I would love to work on the sunny day outside but it feels so limiting after leaving my 3 monitors desks. It feels like I spend more time switching windows beetwen code, tests, browser and Teams than doing the actual work.

ghaff 1y ago
I just use my laptop's screen more often than not. A number of years back I made the effort to extend my WiFi so that I could work on my deck only to discover I didn't really want to. I do have a dual monitor office setup but mostly just work on my laptop these days.
- npodbielski 1y ago
  I did not wrote that it is impossible. I did wrote that it is much less convenient. When I get notification that someone wrote something. I just look at other monitor. When I want to check if build finished. I just look at other monitor. When I want to search for docs I just look at left side of my first monitor. It is just no hassle. Convenient. And track pad is much harder to use for me than just mouse. Yes, I could carry mouse too, but then it is more than just laptop. If laptop is enough for you sure. Everybody can work how they want.
Noumenon72 1y ago
Both Windows and the Mac app Snap let you switch to programs 1-9 on your task bar by hitting Win+1-9 or Opt+1-9. These will be your most used shortcuts and switching to Teams will be as fast as you can think. My chosen order looks like this, but you can rearrange it by just moving the programs on your taskbar. 1 - IDE (PyCharm) 2 - Chrome 3 - Outlook 4 - Firefox (Jira, Github) 5 - iTerm (terminal) 6 - Excel (time tracker) 7 - Teams 8 - Slack 9 - ChatGPT app or Obsidian I'm not sure what it means to switch between code and tests though?
- npodbielski 1y ago
  Sure, that would work. Still I find much easier to have to just glance at the other monitor to see what is happening. Code and tests: I just have open two editor windows: code and tests. Side by side. If you write tests for piece of code it is just easier to see what is happening by just looking on the side instead of switching constantly.

ghaff 1y ago

I just use my laptop's screen more often than not. A number of years back I made the effort to extend my WiFi so that I could work on my deck only to discover I didn't really want to. I do have a dual monitor office setup but mostly just work on my laptop these days.

npodbielski 1y ago
I did not wrote that it is impossible. I did wrote that it is much less convenient. When I get notification that someone wrote something. I just look at other monitor. When I want to check if build finished. I just look at other monitor. When I want to search for docs I just look at left side of my first monitor. It is just no hassle. Convenient. And track pad is much harder to use for me than just mouse. Yes, I could carry mouse too, but then it is more than just laptop. If laptop is enough for you sure. Everybody can work how they want.

Noumenon72 1y ago

Both Windows and the Mac app Snap let you switch to programs 1-9 on your task bar by hitting Win+1-9 or Opt+1-9. These will be your most used shortcuts and switching to Teams will be as fast as you can think. My chosen order looks like this, but you can rearrange it by just moving the programs on your taskbar. 1 - IDE (PyCharm) 2 - Chrome 3 - Outlook 4 - Firefox (Jira, Github) 5 - iTerm (terminal) 6 - Excel (time tracker) 7 - Teams 8 - Slack 9 - ChatGPT app or Obsidian I'm not sure what it means to switch between code and tests though?

npodbielski 1y ago
Sure, that would work. Still I find much easier to have to just glance at the other monitor to see what is happening. Code and tests: I just have open two editor windows: code and tests. Side by side. If you write tests for piece of code it is just easier to see what is happening by just looking on the side instead of switching constantly.