

I don’t think there’s an official “way”, but here’s mine (which I love):
On start-up I open all the apps I usually use, one per designated workspace:
- Slack/Teams/Mattermost, whatever my work requires.
- Thunderbird
- Kitty
- PyCharm/RustRover, whatever the job requires
- Firefox
Workspaces 6-9 are left empty, ready for whatever app I need in the moment, but only ever one app per workspace.
With this setup, I’ve mapped Ctrl+Fx
to each workspace, so Ctrl+F4
takes me to PyCharm where I write the code, and Ctrl+F5
followed by another F5 takes me to Firefox and reloads the page. Ctrl+F3
is always the terminal, etc., so you quickly start building these shortcuts to mean Fwhatever is $APP_NAME.
I almost never use the mouse, unless what I’m doing is necessarily mouse-driven: browsing or drawing charts etc. Everything else is keyboard-driven.
I had a job interview a few weeks ago where the lead developer straight-up said that he doesn’t have any tests in the codebase because “it’s just writing your code twice”. I thought he was joking. Unfortunately he was not.
I didn’t end up getting the job, perhaps because I made it clear that I thought he was very wrong. I think I dodged a bullet.