[wanderinghogan]

> As a developer, I write code on a daily basis. So I often read docs. But I rarely need the docs visible at the same time I’m writing code. I read the relevant doc, then code.

I am the opposite of this, especially using manpages or the api docs and when I jump around to new things.

[GhettoComputers]

He mentions deep work and how distracting jumping around is. If you reference a lot, do you remember what you read or forget it as soon as you use it?

[abdabab]

Often I’m copy pasting commands from documentation to terminal one by one as I’m trying new things. Whether I remember them or not doesn’t matter.

[GhettoComputers]

That’s the point I’m getting at. You don’t because your workflow isn’t deep work. I just partition a larger screen myself for the same work but I’m interested in slow deep work.