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I'm with you on liking multi-monitor set-ups. I also have several workspaces and activities (a KDE thing—you can think of it as another set of workspaces accessible via a shortcut key), which means I've got tons of "space" to play around with.
I could have my e-mail program run on one workspace, then switch to my main workspace with one screen for VSCode (or whatever) and another for the browser window with lots of tabs that I can just refer to while doing work. And then in a different activity, a multi-media program might be playing a podcast or just some music to help me focus.
My discord is usually on the same activity as my multi-media program though, as I don't really need to refer to it as often. If there's a new message for me, my system gives me a notification and an icon in my system tray lights up or something, indicating a new message.
But yeah! You do you with your preferred workflow!