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Re:I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors by GhettoComputers on Thursday October 07, 2021 @11:44PM (#28795517)
He mentions deep work and how distracting jumping around is. If you reference a lot, do you remember what you read or forget it as soon as you use it?
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Re:I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors by abdabab on Saturday October 09, 2021 @01:30AM (#28807300)
Often I’m copy pasting commands from documentation to terminal one by one as I’m trying new things. Whether I remember them or not doesn’t matter.
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Re:I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors by GhettoComputers on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:13PM (#28815195)
That’s the point I’m getting at. You don’t because your workflow isn’t deep work. I just partition a larger screen myself for the same work but I’m interested in slow deep work.
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