I noticed one substantial change to my workflow when I got a new laptop with a wider screen than my old laptop. The new screen is wide enough that I can now easily look at two windows at the same time, one on the left and one on the right (and I could also drag windows to the side and they would resize appropriately). This ended up being more useful than I had anticipated; for example, I can now read a .pdf and edit a .tex file at the same time, or open up Workflowy twice and look at one part of my Workflowy while editing another. Programmers value having multiple monitors for similar reasons (see e.g. here). In some sense it increases your external working memory.
Edit: Something I was trying to say implicitly that I might as well say explicitly: consider your computer desktop part of your space too. If you’re anything like me, you pay much more attention to it than to your actual desktop.
I hope I’m not going too far off topic, but are there any ideas what an audio equivalent might be? I get the impression that audio is much more serial than video (one reason the apathy toward braille among a decent chunk of blind techies astounds me; adding extra speakers does not seem to be as effective as a bigger screen is for visually-oriented work. To be fair, though, braille technology is currently woefully inefficient.)
I noticed one substantial change to my workflow when I got a new laptop with a wider screen than my old laptop. The new screen is wide enough that I can now easily look at two windows at the same time, one on the left and one on the right (and I could also drag windows to the side and they would resize appropriately). This ended up being more useful than I had anticipated; for example, I can now read a .pdf and edit a .tex file at the same time, or open up Workflowy twice and look at one part of my Workflowy while editing another. Programmers value having multiple monitors for similar reasons (see e.g. here). In some sense it increases your external working memory.
Edit: Something I was trying to say implicitly that I might as well say explicitly: consider your computer desktop part of your space too. If you’re anything like me, you pay much more attention to it than to your actual desktop.
Included, with credit. Thank you.
I hope I’m not going too far off topic, but are there any ideas what an audio equivalent might be? I get the impression that audio is much more serial than video (one reason the apathy toward braille among a decent chunk of blind techies astounds me; adding extra speakers does not seem to be as effective as a bigger screen is for visually-oriented work. To be fair, though, braille technology is currently woefully inefficient.)
Audio is much more serial than visual.
Very tentatively offered—is there any way to improve how you keep track of the various audio items you’re using?
Play it at a faster speed?