How do you stay Productive on a single screen ? Share your experience!

I’ve seen many people watch tutorials and code at the same time on a single laptop screen (mostly MacBook folks). How do they do that? I find it really annoying to keep switching between YouTube, VS Code and Browser Tabs. I’m thinking of buying another monitor, but then I wonder how people manage to do the same on a 13-inch laptop screen while I’m struggling with a 24-inch one. How do you handle watching tutorials, reading documentation, coding in VS Code, and checking the webpage to see if things are working? Please share your thoughts on this.

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an operations executive

7mo

Bro hasnt experienced life yet.

a team lead

author

7mo

[an operations executive](username) 😅

superbblackbird

7mo

works at

Reliance Industries

I am a power user like I use win+ctrl+-> / <- and alt tab ctrl+Tab . Problem is that it still takes some seconds to switch and God help you if you work in a WITCH with a shitty laptop cause it takes ages to switch between tabs. I have had to legit write code blocks on my personal laptop and private gist them because my main laptop was too slow. I have a 27 inch 1440p monitor and it's too small to split tabs. You need a 4k 32 inch monitor to be able to split space or multiple monitors. I would probably prefer a curved 57 inch monitor and a 43 inch monitor at the top. That would be the perfect setup. You get three screens to do whatever you want.

soanpari

7mo

works at

Oracle

[misskick](username) And when do u wake up from this fantasy. I've been coding for the past 8 years and the laptop screen+27 inch monitor has been sufficient. Even just the laptop screen is enough when u know what you're doing.