

To the right, I keep my “accessory” apps, such as my Twitter client, Messages, a small Bus圜al window, and some floating widgets (which I float above all via Mail is super-sized to show lots of messages while still displaying a large preview window. This lets me see about 35 one-line summary emails, along with a preview pane that’s large enough even for truly epic-length messages. As such, I’ve devoted the left third of the screen to a huge Mail window (in OS X’s Classic view). So that’s the theoretical what about the actual? In my day-to-day work, email is critically important to me (as it’s our customers’ primary method of interaction). That’s an incredible amount of information on one display. Instead, this is simply to demonstrate what’s possible in that number of pixels: six 1024×768 browser windows, a BBEdit document window, a Finder window, and then Mail, Maps, and Calendar along the bottom of the screen. Information overload! If you wish, you can pack an incredible number of windows into a 4K display’s available pixels. As for how I’m actually using it on a daily basis…I can tell you it’s not as seen in this screenshot.
