What does a project look like on your desktop?

I'm building a spatial workspace for Windows. It started from a small annoyance: I kept losing the shape of whatever I was working on.

A project, for me, is a reference image, three documents, a terminal, two browser tabs I keep going back to and a note with the one thing I must not forget. On the desktop all of it turns into a row of identical taskbar buttons, and every time I switch away I rebuild the arrangement from memory.

So I made a canvas where real windows stay where you put them. They're the live apps, not screenshots, sitting next to files and notes and arranged the way you think about the work. Close it at six, open it at nine, and the layout is still there.

I only have my own habits to go on, so I'm curious about yours.

When you're deep in something, do you arrange your windows on purpose, or alt-tab and live with the mess? And if you do arrange them, what breaks the layout? For me it was always an interruption: one fullscreen video call and it was gone.

There's a browser preview on 7 October. For now I just want to know whether this is my problem or everyone's.