I’ve always have wanted a clean project area on my computer, never managed it though.

I try to keep a space for organization (slack, jira, whatever) and another for the ide, for example. Start working, and pretty soon I need to check an old pr on GitHub, and see it side to side with the ide, next someone sends a link in slack that opens a chrome window which is a doc with links that go into tabs. Hold, I have to hop in zoom for the daily… aaand we’re back at 20 windows and 15 tabs.

I wonder if it’s just the mess imposed by modern workflows. Picturing an engineer decades ago working alone and disconnected in its own office sounds like a dream, but I might just be idealizing it from today’s mindset.

▲ Todd 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Multiple desktops in Windows can help with this. Ctrl+Win Right/Left cursor keys to switch.

	▲	NookDavoos 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I cant stand it connecting app instances into 1 group. If i have 2 excel files open on Desktop 1, and then i try opening 3rd on Desktop2 -> it will jump back to Desktop 1 and open it there.

▲ SoftTalker 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean that's the easiest thing for me.

    mkdir NewProject
    cd NewProject

Nice clean work area. Cleaning my real desk is much more difficult.