Start With Two
If you only have one monitor, I strongly urge you to get a second monitor. Especially if you are reliant on paper, a second monitor makes all the difference in the world when trying to go paperless. I had two monitors while practicing law and when I first started as a consultant.
Pull an email up on one screen and draft your reply on the other. While writing a brief, you can have your legal research available right next to your word processor. The possibilities are endless.
Go Portrait
If you a significant portion of your time reading or drafting documents, you may want to consider during one of your monitors from landscape to portrait. Not all monitors and monitor stands can do this. Most business class ones can. You can read more of the document on one screen and need to scroll less.
Size Matters
Size matters. To a certain extent. Two smaller monitors are less expensive than one larger monitor. If you are deciding between a single large monitor or two smaller monitors, you'll likely save money with the two smaller monitors. It is easier to pull up multiple windows side-by-side when you have an additional monitor. It's certainly possible to open windows next to each on a single monitor. It just isn't quite as easy.
Presenters Need Three
If you do any online presenting, you need more than one monitor. Even if you are just screen sharing during an internal meeting, it is nice to be able to have notes or something else open on the monitor on the screen you aren't sharing.
If you do actual webinars (not just online meetings), a third monitor makes a huge difference if you both present and moderate your own webinars. I share one monitor with attendees. Have PowerPoint's presenter view or an outline of the webinar on the second monitor. The third monitor, I fill with metrics on the webinar. I pull up information on my audio (it's good to know you forgot to unmute yourself), what the audience sees (it's good to know if your screen share froze), my webcam controls, controls for polling, and, most importantly, the Q&A dialog. When I'm both presenting and moderating, I need to be able to keep an eye on Q&A throughout the webinar. Having that up on a third monitor makes it easy to glance at regularly.
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