The dual-monitor setup is an enticing way to make it look like you're extra-productive. Multiple monitors just scream power user. Practically, however, the set-up can be more of a hindrance than a help. What if using a single display allowed you to improve your focus and get even more work accomplished?

Walking through a crowded street, you can't help but notice the people paying more attention to the phone in front of their face than the fast-approaching dog poop on the footpath.

If I'm hungry, I can go into a store and leave with food. That's pretty great, and it's not something I try to take for granted. Like most people, though, I still think of grocery shopping as a chore. And I've found a simple way to make it a much more enjoyable one: Headphones.

We're all guilty of it: the boss calls a team meeting during a busy time of the day. While you're waiting for things to get started, you surreptitiously check your email. Then you start replying. Before you know it, the meeting is in full swing and you're only half-listening as you continue to "multitask" on your phone or laptop. According to business website Entrepreneur, this is a terrible habit that we all need to break.

Taking on a big task is like playing an arcade game: it requires all of your focus. As soon as you pause the game and walk away, your chances of earning a high score all but disappear.

iOS: For the most part, multitasking on the iPad is a great addition, but depending on how you use your iPad, the new feature can be more of annoyance than a boon to productivity. OS X Daily reminds us that you can turn it off.

When Google announced Android N, they showed off split-screen multitasking, which lets you use multiple apps at once on the same screen. That was kinda neat, but buried beneath the surface, though, is something even cooler: Freeform windows. Here's what it looks like in action, and how to try it out yourself.

We talk a lot about time management, but for all our efforts to set aside time to tackle important projects, we miss overlooking one key thing: being able to focus on actually completing them instead of constantly switching tasks.

Android: One of Android's claims-to-fame is true multitasking. Pintasking is perhaps the best example of this, letting you seamlessly switch between apps in a way that I wish came built into Android.

Can something as simple as single tasking at work make you super productive, twice as sexy and give you a Zen-like magnetism?

Android (root): If you're one of the lucky few to receive Android Marshmallow, and you have root, you can try out a hidden, experimental multi-window layout buried in Android.

Chrome: It's not hard to watch YouTube videos while you do other stuff online: just resize your windows and watch them side by side. But SidePlayer makes it even easier than that. You can watch a YouTube video straight from the page you're on.

"Multitasking" has become a bad word. Most research says that our brains aren't truly capable of focusing on multiple things at once, but that doesn't mean multitasking is evil. If you want to multitask, here's how to get the most out of it.

Surely the key to getting more done is to do multiple tasks at once? This seemingly straightforward observation is not accurate for everyone. While computers might prosper by powering through parallel workloads, humans don't operate the same way.

Windows: Games are best when played full screen, but many won't play nice with Alt+Tab in full screen mode -- which means you can't look at your browser for a guide or change the music playing in the background. Borderless Gaming fixes that problem.

The idea of multitasking sounds great, but it's actually highly inefficient. Try putting your phone down between certain hours, ignore those work emails, and you'll actually give yourself less work.

Tabs are a great way to keep many browser windows open at once. The Atlantic recommends going tabless one day a week to stay focused.

Android: Floating apps give robust multitasking on Android, but the little floating icons to activate them can clutter up your screen. This little trick can give you the full power of these apps without making your screen look messy.

You've heard it before -- multitasking actually kills our productivity, so we shouldn't do it. Research suggests, however, that although this is true for about 98 per cent of the population, about 2 per cent of us actually work more efficiently when multitasking.