
You can then navigate left or right between open Spaces, and add new ones by clicking the + icon at the top of the screen. On a Mac, you can open the Mission Control to view of all your open apps and Spaces by clicking the app, pressing the icon on your keyboard (its location varies by country), swiping upwards with three fingers on the trackpad, or by pressing Ctrl+Up. The first and easiest way to split your work and personal lives on one computer is to create multiple desktops - or Spaces, as they are called on the Mac. Spaces and Mission Control helps keep your desktops separate Apple How to create multiple desktops on Windows and Mac There are many ways you can go about doing this, and generally speaking you can employ any or all of these measures on the Windows and Mac operating systems.


But as millions of us face the prospect of working from home for the foreseeable future, it will be increasingly important to build a virtual barrier between your digital work and social lives. That may sound fine for the occasional Friday afternoon of work on the sofa. Unless you're fortunate enough to have a dedicated work computer, you're probably using the same machine for your work and personal lives right now.
