Anyone else thinking that a multiple monitor environment can be rather distracting than productive?

As someone who mostly works with 2 or 3 monitors, I can say that it can be either. Depends on how you use it. When used properly though it can be super productive.

Only you mate

No

For development in unity I used to have 3 monitors setup where I'd have visual studio on one screen, game editor on another and the last screen is the in game screen, depends really what you have on the screens as many people say but I mean there's always the option of turning off a couple of them

Currently using 2 Monitors and yes it's only you ^^ Would love to have 4 though

If you're finding yourself distracted then I'm positive you'll find yourself being distracted even on one!

@Kyliroth Not really, that's why I was asking. Anyway, I'd better improve my workflow then.

@LucaScorpion Appreciate the answer. I guess I'll have to learn to use it more productively.

Depends what you do but some people take it overboard (over compensating).

humans can only focus on one thing at a time, remember that.

@SteveWinfield yeah sorry, I meant it to be a statement of "surely it's the workflow not the monitor?."

Sometimes I have YouTube for TedX talks etc. but that slips sometimes and it does become a big distraction. Especially the rabbit hole that is YouTube...

I find multi-monitors useful for Unity / Web Dev as it has immediate (or near immediate) change that I can see whilst I code in the other screen.
Might be best to tailor the setup to the workflow rather than the workflow to the setup.

set one aside for devrant (facing you but away from the rest of the crowd :)) and the other two for work stuff