Randy Pausch, a former Computer Science Professor at University of Virginia who passed away from Pancreatic Cancer, gave a popular lecture on Time Manage in the last few months of his illness. In his lecture he proposed a monitor set up I still use today. What I love about this method is that one quickly learned which monitors does what and so there are fewer brain cycles to decide where to put your windows.
The Three monitor method:
- One for reading. ( documents, reference material, requirements)
- One for writing. ( code, writing emails, creating anything)
- One for time. (calendar app always open.)
He mentions it roughly 49 min into the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blaK_tB_KQA