macfags.comHow do You Use Spaces?
Posted on January 6, 2008And more importantly, I suppose, are you using Spaces? Even before Leopard, there were a number of virtual desktop managers for the Mac, but to be honest, I never really gave them a try for more than a day or two before Spaces. And now, I love it. This is how my MacBook Pro is set up:
The center screen is primarily for Safari. I use it to surf the web, and occasionally, for FTP or TextEdit. This keeps me somewhat focused on whatever I’m reading/writing with minimal screen clutter. The right screen is reserved for iChat, Adium, and Twitteriffic. It’s a sort of communications center. That way, if I want not to be distracted by IMs I can just ignore that screen, and i can keep all the clutter of multiple chats on one screen. Finally, the left screen I use for actual productivity. Photoshop, InDesign, Pages, Illustrator, etc. all go here. This one is for apps that require just one window, that I want to concentrate fully on working on.
Making sure that windows stay organized and where they’re supposed to be in Spaces is simple thanks to the anchoring system in System Preferences -> Exposé/Spaces.
Just add a new assignment, pick an app and pick the window you want it to go in and it’ll generally stay there, except for the occasional fuckery (like when you drag an assigned window to another space, it sometimes does goofy things. iChat is often guilty of this.)
That’s the system I’ve got worked out, anybody have a layout they’d like to share?
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