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The 2×2 desktop layout

The studio uses exactly two layouts: a single full pane, and a 2×2 grid you can build in four keystrokes. As posted on TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn — the full story, one slide per card.

The Layout · SCHEMA 00901/08

More panes is not more productivity.

The studio uses exactly two layouts: a single full pane, and a 2×2 grid you can build in four keystrokes.

The default02/08

Most sessions need one pane: Claude, full width.

Every pane you add is a slice of attention you've promised to something. The grid only earns its keep when a second program runs continuously — in practice, a dev server.

The grid03/08

Four quadrants, four hourly questions.

01Claude
02dev server
03scratch shell
04yazi (files)

The drill04/08

Four keystrokes, one focus hop.

Alt+d   split right -> top-right    : dev server
Alt+D   split down  -> bottom-right : yazi
Alt+h   focus left  -> (no new pane)
Alt+D   split down  -> bottom-left  : scratch

Alt+h/j/k/l  move focus
Alt+f zoom a pane - Alt+w close one

Under ten seconds once your hands know it.

Why the hop05/08

Every split lands focus in the new pane.

That's why step three exists. Without the Alt+h hop back to Claude, the second Alt+D splits the right column again — a lopsided three-stack instead of a grid.

The trap06/08

Four panes is not four Claudes.

Myth

The grid makes it easy to run four Claudes at once, one per pane.

Fact

Four agents editing one working directory trample each other's files. Parallel Claude needs isolated worktrees — that's what dev-new is for.

Save this07/08

The grid, in your hands.

Single pane by default; grid only when a dev server runs
Alt+d, Alt+D, Alt+h, Alt+D — the four-keystroke drill
Claude top-left: it's where your eyes land first
Alt+f zooms a wall of diff; Alt+w closes a pane
The grid lives in the session — build once per project

The boundary08/08

One idea from one lesson.

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