If you are on mac or linux, you should check out virtual desktops / workspaces. IIRC you can do the same thing on windows, but you would have to use a third party utility.
Yep! I'm on mac. Virtual desktops? I'm guessing that is that weird eagle's eye view that occurs. Just curious, how does that impact the performance of all of the different workspaces if you have multiple?
Performance is pretty good -- AFAICK no worse than just running all the apps in one desktop. Here is an article[1] that talks about doing kind of thing on the mac.