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Are you using dual monitors? If so, how?
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the dual monitors - and it's one of the negatives of working at home! Have a big laptop screen, but still not enough screen real-estate for design work. My typical setup:
Monitor 1 (left): Outlook, chat, Photoshop or Soundbooth, depending on what I'm working on, word docs/PPTs to feed the project, maybe FireFox or IE (I switch those around depending on what I'm working on)
& if iTunes is open, it's usu. behind all this stuff
Monitor 2 (right): this is my hard-working design monitor for main content, so Captivate is usu. here (if I had Articulate, it would be here!) and FireFox or IE, windows explorer windows, MindManager (but those move around too)
I don't think I would be anywhere NEAR as productive without the 2 monitors - and they're nice and big. Being a visual person, and a designer, I'm all about the screen real estate. Remember Mary Poppins? "I'd much rather see all of my face at the same time, thank you!" or something to that effect - same principle! I want to SEE as much as possible, right next to each other if I'm working in multiple tools.

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