Comment by bombcar

When I had five monitors, they each had a job. Front of me were two ultrawides on top of each other, the one directly in front of me was for 'the action' as it could handle "two screens" worth of info next to each other.

The ultra wide above was mainly dedicated to various chat programs (teams, telegram, iMessage, etc).

The laptop's screen to the left was my mail screen (both home and work).

To the right was a 4k on its side, for documentation reference or output work.

And above the laptop was a "scratch" monitor for whatever was needed (often a music player, etc).

You quickly get used to glancing at what you need and moving on; if something needs more attention it's easy to bring it front and center or turn your chair.

Power fluctuations took out the ultrawides and one of the 4ks so now I just have one supermegaultrawide with a 4k above it (still laptop for mail, "above" for chat, and main for main things).