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> What would you do if you had a million dollars?

> I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two monitors at the same time.

Maybe I have less mental swap space than the average person, but nothing has increased my productivity like monitor space.

Plunking down for an ultawidescreen was the best development decision I've made. Being able to have specs/docs + IDE + search + chat/email open at the same time, accessible with a physical turn of my head, greatly boosted my productivity.



To each their own but I found the opposite to be true. Coding or trying to focus on one one task while chat/email notifications are popping up left and right is very disruptive. I went down from two monitors to one and I'm very happy with the decision.


One benefit I've had from an ultrawide monitor is that notifications will generally go unnoticed. I just bought a 49" ultrawide (essentially two 27" monitors side by side) and the notification area is so far into my peripheral vision I regularly miss messages.


I guess this is my experience as well.

Previously, I felt like I had two choices: (1) mute+hide all notifications, or (2) leave them visible/alerting.

Now, there's (3) leave them visible, but outside my focus.

Physically turning my focus to bring them into view, whenever I have a break, seems to work better than either of the other two.




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