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by wink 1261 days ago
This is not too different to how I've been using tiling window managers for the last decade.

There 9 or 10 virtual desktops which are accessed with WIN+1-0.

1 is for shells, 2 is the IDE, 3/4 are browsers, 6 is administrative stuff, usually a root shell, 0 is for zoom, 5,7,8 are less defined or just "whatever doesn't fit". In addition I'm using the multi-monitor switching from xmonad in i3 (i.e. if I have [1] on the left and [2] on the right screen, when I activate [1] while on the right one, they switch places, if I activate [3], then it will replace [2] and [1] stays on the left one).

It sounds very pedantic but I don't even have to think when context switching and it's made my life a lot easier. Interestingly it doesn't work as well on my private computer because (to no one's surprise) I am using many more GUI tools and do different things when not working.