31. Working with Your Mac’s Display

Getting the Most out of Your Mac’s Displays

Most improvements to productivity save you only a few seconds here and a few seconds there. However, save a few seconds a few dozen times a day, and you’re finishing your day thirty minutes earlier than usual. These improvements are almost always marginal, but occasionally you come across a new way of doing things that offers a radical increase in efficiency. Over the past few years, study after study has shown that you can greatly improve your productivity by doing one thing: adding a second monitor to your system. This makes sense because you can have whatever you’re working on displayed on one monitor, and your reference materials (or your email client or whatever) ...

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