Do I need a bigger monitor, or a better way to arrange windows?
TechnologyI spent the invoice review moving a PDF in front of a spreadsheet, then moving the spreadsheet in front of the PDF. My friend watched for a minute and said, “You need a bigger monitor.”
The one on my desk is twenty-four inches. I can read each document comfortably on its own. I lose my place when I keep switching between the supplier's lines and our job list. The screen I have been offered would cost $360, and I have only just cleared a place for this desk.
My friend thinks learning window controls would be a false economy. I think buying more screen before I know how I want to use the space could be an expensive version of the same confusion.
Would you try arranging this exact task differently first, or borrow a larger display to see whether it changes the work? I want fewer lost rows, not a desk that looks more convincing in a photograph.