so I have the type of ADHD where I constantly forget things if they aren't right in front of me, or in a pile on my desktop. taking that metaphor literally (pasted from obsidian):
(tidytabs positions and chrome window naming conventions for tidytabs: )
The Why:
- Every 'topic' outside of main/misc gets it's own window
- I don't close tabs. They're my 'research history'. They're saved windows in tabs outliner, so if I lose them, I can bring them back. Once I'm sure I'm done with them, I unload them permanently, but keep them saved either in TabsOutliner, or a TabsOutliner export
- I have the kind of ADHD that basically lacks object permanence when it comes to important things, so instead I scatter it across my metaphorical desktop
Monitors:
- 1920x1080 upper
- 4k main
- 1080x1920 right portrait
Naming:
Monitor Names:
- m - main, the main central monitor
- u - upper, the monitor above the central one
- pm - portrait monitor
Horizontal Position Names:
- l - left
- r - right
- vertical position
- t - top
- b - bottom
The Windows:
- mlt-main - the main window, where my chat apps / reading / search exploration goes
- mrt-misc - where youtube/netflix/music/reading/tabs-as-bookmarks often go
- mlt-aux - when I don't want to be distracted by the tabs, I spin up a new window
- mrt-reference - the writing portion of this has been replaced by Obsidian and soon probably org, but it's also where I keep my 'clipboard' of tabs -- things I need to reference for my current area of work/study
- mlb-* - VSCode lives in this same windowtabs collection.
- Anything I'm looking at that is to be read alongside the terminal (documentation, guides, etc) goes here. I generally won't be needing terminal reference while typing in VSCode, and mrb-* is where my terminal lives
- what lives here at the moment: VScode, mlb-emacs and mlb-zsh
- mrb-*
- terminal lives here
- current coding. Whatever I'm using for coding reference goes here, like the bokeh documentation or python references.
- ul-* - random-access reference (requires shifting focus)
- ur-* - videos or whatever, or long-running tests or other things I only need to glance at
- pmt-chat - portrait monitor, top pane
- contains all chat apps but discord and slack
- telegram, signal, wire, keybase, google_chat, steam_friends, teamspeak, etc
- pmm-discord - discord and slack
- pmb-tabs - tabs outliner