Blog readers know I’m a multimonitor fan. Two screens aren’t enough for me –
three is the magic number, as I’ve written in
My Multimonitor Setup: Three
Screens For One Computer. I’m not alone. Apparently, Bill Gates thinks three
is the way to go as well, as he
writes in Fortune today:
On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I
can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display
area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.The screen on the left has my list of e-mails. On the center screen is
usually the specific e-mail I’m reading and responding to. And my browser is
on the right-hand screen. This setup gives me the ability to glance and see
what new has come in while I’m working on something, and to bring up a link
that’s related to an e-mail and look at it while the e-mail is still in front
of me.
Bill’s setup:
My setup:
I wonder if he’s got a
Spot
watch like me? Very soon, I’ll blog the joys of that!
