That transition felt like I was zooming out to see a larger portion of my desk, and then diving into a specific area of my desk to focus on. Then, F3 enacted Exposé within each desktop, revealing every window in every desktop, at the largest viewable size. This felt great again because of the transitions: enacting Spaces zoomed out revealing 4 desktops, taking up my entire screen with equal space. Exposé: The Best Window Management Shit Ever What didn’t bug the hell out of me: Exposé. WHY THE HELL CAN’T THE GREEN + JUST MAXIMIZE THE WINDOW?.Double clicking the application bar minimizes instead of maximizing.The application file menu is in the OS taskbar, not attached to the window.OSX’s “smart” maximize button that never works the way you want it to.Get to the point, no one cares about your childhood. It was bizarre at first, and you can imagine I was as calm and patient with the transition as I am while writing this rant… Fine, okay, whatever - I’ll switch over to the glorified $2000 Coloring Book™. Then came art school, where the entire school was on MacBook Pro’s. Watching animated turtles and rabbits was my primary concern, not window management. My first memories of a computer were playing The Tortoise and the Hare Living Books point and click adventure on my dad’s MidWest Micro. (And it has a few swears) This is me getting way too nerdily worked up over tiny little shit, but it’s what I do for a living so I figured I’d put this up. For additional stats (30-day view and exportable reports) you can buy an upgrade, but all the above stuff is free.Mission Control Is Terrible, Exposé + Spaces Had It Right ![]() I made it, and it launched about a week before this comment was made. Here's a preview shot, you can see the option to jump directly to a Space (app calls them Rooms) via a dropdown, and you can see time spent across them.įree in the App Store - CurrentKey Stats. B/c Apple lets you have up to 16 Spaces per screen, this is handy in navigating between them. The app also lets you jump directly to another (named) Space via its dropdown menu. Because macOS APIs are limited, the names stay in the app and don't show up in Mission Control. It also lets you give each Space a unique icon, and tells you how you spend time across your Spaces (and the apps within them). There's an app (in the Mac App Store) that lets you name Spaces via the menubar. Then duplicate the document, move it to a new desktop and change the name visible there.Īs a result you can usually read the names in Mission Control (as long as a window isn't obscuring it) and you can easily switch to a Desktop by name by showing all TextEdit windows and selecting the correct one. Type in the name you want for that desktop. Change the font size to something like 175 points and reshape the window to be very short and very wide. Now, when you go into Command Center, your "legend" will be available on all Desktops so you can quickly see which one to switch to. Make it tall enough and the font large enough so that it is legible when in Command Center. In it create a list like this: Desktop 1 - Email ![]() Right click on it on the Dock and select Options -> All Desktops.Ĭreate one sticky. I came up with a better hack inspired by Karl's answer.
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