I think that experience is really going to depend on the individual. I like having a monitor dedicated to email/calendar. But I can certainly understand how it could turn into a distraction.
Most of my coding happens on the monitor of an 15" thinkpad. No room for distracting stuff, atleast not visibly and missing emails or instant messages is way easier if they are just a single ping, thats drowned out by music, instead of a cascade of text scrolling by.
The big monitor is for less focused work or the odd day i actually want to look at multiple things at once to find an odd quirk happening in a bigger system.
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