Hey,
Since I am working from home and I only have one modern Mac, I've been thinking about the ways to split my work-related activities with recreational stuff like movies, games and chatting.
What I am trying to achieve is:
1. Concentration on work tasks without any distractions (chats, apps, websites, files, online accounts, tabs, dock icons that aren't work related).
2. The ability to get away from the work stuff and relax.
I think most of us know how easily you can get distracted with some other stuff when working. You randomly jump on Youtube and watch some unnecessary video or you get some e-mail with discount offers and you go and start browsing through them.
One the other hand, many of us are familiar with the problem of not being able to get away from work tasks. You've finished working, but you continue thinking through some ideas or trying to find some solutions for the work problem. Maybe you get a new idea and you go and launch your work apps again. It all was easier when we all were working in the offices - you leave the building and you leave work.
I've tried the obvious solution - create two users. It sounded like good idea and it works to some extent. But I find it's not the most comfortable way to do things. Every time you change some general macOS setting - you have to do it for both users separately. Same for app configurations. If you need to check some work file just for a second, you need to log in to the work account again. Then you log out and then *damn* you realize you need check some other file too and you go and log in again. It's also sometimes difficult to decide where some files should be - in your work or personal user folders. You also have to deal with permissions for some file you want to share. Annoying.
If you are trying to achieve the same thing, please share your workflow.
Since I am working from home and I only have one modern Mac, I've been thinking about the ways to split my work-related activities with recreational stuff like movies, games and chatting.
What I am trying to achieve is:
1. Concentration on work tasks without any distractions (chats, apps, websites, files, online accounts, tabs, dock icons that aren't work related).
2. The ability to get away from the work stuff and relax.
I think most of us know how easily you can get distracted with some other stuff when working. You randomly jump on Youtube and watch some unnecessary video or you get some e-mail with discount offers and you go and start browsing through them.
One the other hand, many of us are familiar with the problem of not being able to get away from work tasks. You've finished working, but you continue thinking through some ideas or trying to find some solutions for the work problem. Maybe you get a new idea and you go and launch your work apps again. It all was easier when we all were working in the offices - you leave the building and you leave work.
I've tried the obvious solution - create two users. It sounded like good idea and it works to some extent. But I find it's not the most comfortable way to do things. Every time you change some general macOS setting - you have to do it for both users separately. Same for app configurations. If you need to check some work file just for a second, you need to log in to the work account again. Then you log out and then *damn* you realize you need check some other file too and you go and log in again. It's also sometimes difficult to decide where some files should be - in your work or personal user folders. You also have to deal with permissions for some file you want to share. Annoying.
If you are trying to achieve the same thing, please share your workflow.
