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Earlier this year, I bought two monitors and plugged them into my MacBook, thinking more screen space would make me more productive.

After the first "excitement" phase, I still used them for a while, but noticed I was constantly looking between Slack, email, and whatever I was actually working on. So having everything visible at once made it really easy for me to get distracted.

Recently, I went back to just my MacBook screen and I actually feel more focused.

Has anyone else made the switch back to one screen?

I always seem to have something playing in the background while I'm working.

Some days it's music.

Other days it's YouTube, the radio, podcasts or the news.

I realised I have certain "go-to" things depending on what I'm doing, but I'm curious what everyone else does.

If you like having something on in the background while you work, what do you usually put on?

Do you mostly stick to one thing, or do you switch throughout the day?

I noticed today I went:

Spotify → YouTube → the news → Spotify.

Half an hour later I realised I'd done exactly the same thing again.

It's not even because I get bored. It just depends on what I'm doing. Music while I'm working, the news while making coffee, then back to music again.

It sounds silly, but I find constantly deciding what to listen to next weirdly distracting.

Is this just me, or does anyone else do this? If you do, have you found anything that helps?