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Notes on switching windows at the pointer.
Short notes on using VortexFlow to get through a desk full of windows without putting the mouse down, or, when both hands are on the keys, without reaching for Cmd-Tab.
Read the code: auditing a menu bar app in an afternoon.
An app that wants Accessibility and Input Monitoring should not ask for trust. Here is the afternoon-long audit, file by file.
The button you already have.
Your mouse has a button mapped to Back or to nothing. Here is how to pick one for the spiral, and the honest trade-off with middle click.
Three letters, one tab.
Substring, not fuzzy. A site or app that starts with what you typed wins; ties stay most-recent. The whole ranking fits on one screen, and so does the file.
The glance tax.
The keystroke is cheap. The glance to the middle of the screen, and the trip back to where you were, is what you pay for all day.
Pie menus were right. They needed a job.
Radial menus won in the lab in 1988 and still lost the desktop. Switching windows is the job they were waiting for.
Don't leave the pointer.
The expensive part of switching windows is not the keystroke. It is the hand leaving the mouse, the chord, the miss, the second chord.
Six Chromes. One spiral.
macOS thinks all windows of an app are related. They aren't. The spiral is how you look at them as themselves.
The window you meant is on the other desk.
Cmd-` goes blind at fullscreen and the other Space. The spiral does not, and it can take a shared-screen window off the shared screen.