[jlgreco]

In addition to the obvious multiplexing/windowing/paning, I find it great for creating named "work sessions". I have a short script that creates or attaches (with zsh autocompletion in the case of attaching) tmux sessions while creating a standardized filesystem tree that I use for units of "work", checking out things I need, etc.

This allows me to basically just type at any point `work foobar` and I'll either have a clean slate to start working on foobar, or I will be dropped into an existing tmux session 'foobar' that is exactly where I left off last time. Same 'tail -f'/'watch'es, same Vim sessions, same everything.

Besides regular units of work I usually keep a tmux session around just for database connections or the like, and another for messing around with environment stuff (dotfiles, ~/bin/, etc).

Most of this organization is stuff I used to do with virtual desktops, but I find tmux is wildly better suited for it.