Excuse my ignorance, but it seems that many of you now have a WFH setup that features two monitors as well as a laptop. Just curious as to what you do with essentially three screens? Could you manage with one monitor?
Thanks.
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1 for the model (excel), 1 for the data source (equity research, a website, etc), one for the output (usually Powerpoint). Throw in Outlook and a file explorer (I use Q-Dir) and you still may have some applications in the background – alt-tab is your friend!
One can (and does) make do with just a laptop screen while traveling, but it's not as efficient to constantly be cycling through tabs.
You could manage but it makes it so efficient to have 2. You can have a spreadsheet open on one and have a site you are pulling data on the other side.
spreadsheet on one monitor, PORNHUB.com on the other
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I feel like my laptop screen is so small (Lenovo X1 carbon latest edition) that I don't even use it as a screen when I have one or two monitors up. Even when I had a larger laptop screen, I would always prefer to just have it on a monitor if I could.
Bad for your neck too if you use your laptop screen and monitor(s)
I typically have my laptop dedicated to emails. I would suggest using a laptop stand.
laptop stands are POINTLESS and STUPID
IM + Project Management software Main working screen spreadsheet/reference material
What PM software do you use? (Jira, MS Project?)
Depends on the company. Jira/Trello for dev teams usually because they will murder me if I ask them to use something else (lol) and then Asana or BaseCamp elsewhere.
Usually something like:
Usually use OneNote in top left too, then whatever Excel model / PPT deck / IC memo being worked on is going to be either on the left side or right side, with whatever reference docs needed on the other side (usually main file being worked on will be on the left though).
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