Dual Monitors
I am just picking up the ball from a comment I left on an article from Lockergnome (a great place to visit for anything)
I have 2 monitors at work for keeping my workflow balanced as well as keeping things just better organized. An article Chris published referenced this as a “separate partition”, I totally agree.
I don’t have this setup yet at home, as desk space is at a PREMIUM in my wee little PC cabinet (note, not a desk even).
For those of you who do multitasking like me, I have my html related shortucts to documents and folders on one monitors desktop, and on the other the remainder of the things I might work on, on any given day. My job currently requires a certain amount of customer service so I am always shuffling back and forth and this setup (while I was really reluctant to try it) has just really improved both my work environment as well as my overall productivity. It is INCREDIBLY difficult to move back to a single monitor setup. My only supplement at home is that I have a 19″ widescreen monitor for home. I find I do less and less work at home even though I am now better equipped for it
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I am a HUGE fan of using dual monitors, people leaving notes about triple, and quadruple monitors are pushing it for me. I was wrong about dual monitors so maybe I ‘ll be wrong about this too, but I doubt it. Maybe triple would be okay though.
With any luck I’ll have a new home in the next 1-4 years and we’ll have enough room for me to FINALLY have a work area for my computer instead of a cabinet. I think my poor PC is getting claustrophobic!! I have a 19″ widescreen monitor in about a 27-28″ space, so the whole darn setup is pretty tight.
But dual monitors, that would be the goal, of course.. maybe triple..but working on dual at the moment.