I was one of those Developer who felt weird closing the Sidebar in VSCode I always needed to see my files all the time for some reason even if this made no sense while working on a problem, but one day I decided to start closing it while working on a feature/problem and it was hard for me for a few days but after I got used to having a closed sidebar my productivity skyrocketed.
How do I start?
I find what I need to work on and open multiple tabs side by side when needed then I close the sidebar and start working.
Another pro beside productivity was my eyes hurt way less and themes which where to noisy in colors for me and I couldn't use them are now no problem anymore and I enjoy them now.
Hope this will help some devs out there.
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I agree, I started by disabling my sidebar, then status bar, then activity bar, and basicly only had the actual editor, then found out about everything Vim had, and I know there are a lot of people with strong oppinions of Vim, but I'm really liking it so far.
There's zen mode
Yep and it’s all you need
Never think that one will ever use it.
I use it now :)
Zen mode On
I often use Zen mode (cmd+k cmd+z on mac), it's great when I just want to focus on one source file.
It's one of the reasons a file navigator like NERDTree is controversial in Vim. You don't need it for 99% of the things you do, it implies a relationship between itself and one of the files/views you have and it gets in the way.
I love the zen mode 😍 that helps me to stay focused on my tasks
That seems to be a good strategy I will try to do that with all of my projects and IDEs as well, thank you for short and great tip.