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# notes regarding my workflow and intended use of workspaces
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## workspaces layout
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idea from the ThePrimeagen: designated workspace/label/desktop per app/purpose
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### current layout/plan
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| workspace number | wm layout/mode |
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| 1. notes/drawing (stack: nvim, obsidian, gimp) | stack |
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| 2. music makeing - misc | stack |
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| 3. music making - daw | floating (workaround) |
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| 4. music/audio listening | stack |
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| 5. general - misc (catch-all) | stack |
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| 6. comms (stack: emails, chats, av/calls) | stack |
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| 7. programming - misc (whatever is not in terminal) | stack |
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| 8. terminal (primary; one-offs & tui apps can be anywhere) | stack |
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| 9. web browser | stack |
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### ideas/guidelines:
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- use this consistently accross all machines
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- if something not applicable for a given machine, just don't have apps or screens
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present, but maintain absolute position/numbering of each screen
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- structure the above so that programs which i'm likely to use with one hand off of the
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keyboard (i.e. to use a trackpad, mouse, stylus, etc) are on the screens that allow
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for one hand (i.e. the one still on the keyboard) to navigate those screens
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- for me, using peripherals with right hand, so put programs likely to be used with
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peripherals where my left hand can switch to them single-handedly (screens 1 to 5)
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## workflow / use notes
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- related to the layout above, my approach is to run almost every window in fullscreen
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- note: on macOS, this is not mac's notion of fullscreen, which basically moves
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windows to new workspaces/desktops when going to fullscreen mode; instead, when i
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say 'fullscreen', the idea is taking up all of the normal screen (excluding the
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menu bar at the top of the screen)
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- key bindings are set for moving window focus up/down (vim style: mod + k/j)
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- the mental model here is that every fullscreen window is in a stack, so i can move
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focus up and down the stack (and i try to maintain consistent order in stacks,
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e.g. in the comms workspace, email is always on the bottom and chat apps are above)
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- for apps with tabs, pair the above mental model of a stack with a mental model of a
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circular list being in any position in that stack
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- so, keybindings are also set for previous/next tab (vim style: mod + h/l)
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- specifically, mod+h is mapped to ctrl+shift+tab and mod+l is mapped to ctrl+tab,
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so it should work anywhere ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab work
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- all this said, it is better to keep things simple when possible and avoid having too
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many windows and/or tabs open at one time; however, with the designated purpose for
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each workspace and the mental models above, it rarely takes me long to find what i need
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## example cases
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- if i want a particular browser window, i jump to workspace 9, then move focus
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up or down until i get to the window i want; if the window is right but i need
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a different tab, i then just move "right or left" through my tabs
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- if i want a particular music-playing app/tui, i jumpt to workspace 4 and move
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focus up or down as needed to find it
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- variation case: if i want a particular terminal workspace, i jump to workspace
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8, but then i'm in tmux land and navigate via the methods i've set up for tmux
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