What software do you use and for what do you use it?
I’ve also found it quite awesome that I’m able to incorporate some of my personal equipment into my daytime work, which allows me to avoid having two discrete working configurations and, thus, an obscenely full desk.
Both my work and personal configurations offer me ample space to do just about anything I need, and I always have sufficient room to tile different windows according to the task at hand. I’m a complete glutton for screen real estate. My kids like to play games on it, so that’s cool. I’ve done some light writing (read: typing) on it, but it hasn’t really found any sort of imperative place in my workflow. I have an iPad (the WiFi-only model) that I use around the house for reading things and maintaining my task lists. Music is a pretty important part of my working effectively, so my gobs of music is output steadily through a set of humble-yet-reliable Altec Lansing desktop speakers that I bought at Staples about a million years ago or my trusty Sennheiser HD 202 headphones (for when my kids are sleeping or my wife just isn’t in the “speed metal mood”). You’ll also find a smattering of backup drives littered around my desk, as well as a Fujitsu ScanSnap document scanner, which I absolutely adore (and that works with Evernote). When I got the iMac recently, it came with a Magic Mouse that I’ve come to like and will probably adopt as my permanent mouse, but before that was my old Microsoft two-button mouse which has served me reliably for going on six years now. I use a standard Apple keyboard, but have been flirting with the smaller Bluetooth model for the last couple of weeks and may switch to that.
Up until very recently, the Macbook Pro sat atop a couple of large hardcover books to elevate it to something resembling eye-level, but a few days ago I purchased a laptop stand which hoists the laptop nice and high next to the iMac. The third display on my desk is a 22″ Acer LCD that serves as a secondary to my iMac when I’m doing “evening” work. When I’m doing day job work, the iMac pulls duty as a secondary display for the Macbook Pro. My employer-issued computer is a 15″ unibody Macbook Pro and my personal computer is a very new quad-core 27″ iMac. I work exclusively from home, so my setup is a mixture of my professional and personal equipment. You can also find me oversharing and making awful jokes on Twitter as What is your current setup? I live in southern California with my first wife and our two kids. My current claim to fame is being the author an ebook called Evernote Essentials, which people seem to like. The rest of my time is spent doing freelance web development and writing for my blog.
By day, I’m the Technical Communications Manager for Evernote Corporation where I split my time pretty evenly between doing web development and writing user documentation. My name is Brett Kelly and I’ve got a pretty full hat rack.