This 2005 New York Times article, Meet The Life Hackers, covers a lot of topics from GTD to multitasking but an interesting point is made about computer screen real estate.
We all want more and bigger screens, but we may not know of studies proving productivity increases when you do upgrade. Anywhere from 10-40% increase.
In two decades of research, Czerwinski had never seen a single tweak to a computer system so significantly improve a user's productivity. The clearer your screen, she found, the calmer your mind. So her group began devising tools that maximized screen space by grouping documents and programs together - making it possible to easily spy them out of the corner of your eye, ensuring that you would never forget them in the fog of your interruptions.I noticed a few things easier to manage when working with a second monitor. What are your experiences?
Meet the Life Hackers - [NYTimes]
