Now that I have i3/Sway configured as I like, I'm fast. Too fast, deliberately narrating what I'm doing when sharing my screen
It didn't start this way. I was painfully slow until building enough familiarity and tweaks (ie: this window class opens on this workspace)
As others have pointed out, it's easy to spend more time than you save. Spend effort on 'constants' -- I always want this here, and then build your workspaces on login
That's saved me the most effort and time
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Workspace 1 : browser(s)
Workspace 2 : code editor(s)
Workspace 9 : music library/mpv
Workspace 0 : signal
Scratchpad - : zoom
Scratchpad + : slack
Scratchpad [ : browser (front-end development)
Scratchpad ] : designs/notion/ChatGPT/etc
Scratchpad \ : terminal
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What's your workflow?
I generally keep one workspace:display (three). Then splitting vertically/horizontally as needed. I use tabs as most would use workspaces
Left-most is a monitor with portrait layout, meant mostly for long-form reading. That's where Slack and other infinitely-going things go. This is WS #3
Center display/workspace is WS #1, unmapped things go here. It's a 4K display, I never share it - so it's a nice catch all for potentially-sensitive things.
Right-most is WS #2 - this is what I share, and is more 'the backup' for the primary. Things I do want to share are designated to go here
There's a lot of organization I did for 'autostarts', assignments, and shortcuts - that are kind of hard to explain... but easier to show
With the tabbed layout each display becomes a sort of permanent workspace. I then toss things I don't really care about into new workspaces as needed, sort of like a scratch pad
Things that only start on certain days (mostly work tasks) go into these other workspaces by default