When I first read about "Spaces" and saw the screenshots in OSX Leopard, I felt like it could be a huge potential productivity booster. Those from the Linux fold have been rotating cubes and "spaces" for quite some time - and of course when Leopard came out with it, they all chirped in to remind me, "that's been on Linux for awhile." Yea yea yea - but is it sold by an egomaniac who only wears black turtlenecks? Didn't effin think so...

Anyhow, when I actually got Spaces - it ended up being anti-climatic. It didn't really work how I thought it would (in my many pre-Leopard, about Leopard dreams) and it seemed like it was a bit buggy. I have seen many people turning spaces off, frustrated with it's apparent shortcomings - but I am not one to let initial excitement die so easily - so I rolled with the punches for awhile. Fast forward three months and I am now moving from space to space like a Puppeteer on a powder day (sci-fi/drug connection makes reading all the better).

Organize Your Actions

For those who are using a computer for more than just checking email and surfing the web - Spaces can help boost productivity. My first inclination wasn't right at all - I put random stuff in random spaces and was like, "cool, now what." Since then - I have organized all of my actions on a computer into four main categories for four spaces (they may be different for everyone):

Browsing Information - Since I switched to NetNewsWire and Safari (versus good ol' buggy Firefox) I have been able to cut out my mid-design random RSS feed checks. I used to build sites in Firefox and click "Live Bookmark" every few minutes. Now when I want to browse I have to actively switch to another space.

Communicating and Scheduling - Lumping Twitter (Snitter), iChat, Mail, iCal, and Things together allows me to communicate with people to schedule timelines and meetings.

Multimedia Management - I really like to use Handbrake for backups, yea. Oh and iTunes. Oh and covers from Amazon.com. And Netflix is nice too. Everything related to my hording of films, shows, and music goes here.

Web Design - When I am working on web design - it's very important to be able to hyper focus or get in the zzzzone (yea, I can't believe I am that clich