I use a screen session w/ multiple windows at work on the server, which I attach to every morning. Then I have all of the setup that I was working on the previous day right there in front of me.

Some screen hacks:

* I use grabssh[1] so that I can get ssh-agent forwarding working again when I reattach. ssh into the server, run grabssh, then reattach the screen session. Now all of my shells in the session can source fixssh to update their environment.

* I also use a wrapper for ssh within a screen session:

  function screen_ssh_wrapper()                                                                                                                                             
  {                                                                                                                                                                         
      if [ -n "$STY" ]; then                                                                                                                                                
          HOST=$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's,[a-zA-Z0-9],,g')                                                                                                                     
          if [ -z "$HOST" ]; then                                                                                                                                           
              # Note: We need all of these vars b/c we want the ssh command to                                                                                              
              # inherit them from the current shell, and *not* from screen (for                                                                                             
              # long-running screen sessions, those values may be out of date)                                                                                              
              screen -t "$1" \                                                                                                                                              
                  env \                                                                                                                                                     
                      SSH_CLIENT="$SSH_CLIENT" \                                                                                                                            
                      SSH_TTY="$SSH_TTY" \                                                                                                                                  
                      SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" \                                                                                                                      
                      SSH_CONNECTION="SSH_CONNECTION" \                                                                                                                     
                      DISPLAY="$DISPLAY" \                                                                                                                                  
                      ssh "$@"                                                                                                                                              
              return                                                                                                                                                        
          fi                                                                                                                                                                
      fi                                                                                                                                                                    
      ssh "$@"                                                                                                                                                              
  }                                                                                                                                                                         
  alias ssh='screen_ssh_wrapper'

[1] http://samrowe.com/wordpress/ssh-agent-and-gnu-screen/