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Don't leave the pointer.
The time is not Tab. Tab is cheap. The time is this: you are in a document, the mouse is in your right hand, you need the other Chrome, you put the mouse down, you chord Cmd-Tab, you land on the wrong Chrome, you chord Cmd-`, nothing happens because that window is fullscreen on the other desk, you go to Mission Control, you squint.
Then you pick the mouse back up to click the stamp you wanted. You have used the keyboard to earn a mouse click. That is the wrong direction.
VortexFlow is built for the other direction. The overlay is a spiral around the cursor. The hand never leaves. If both hands are on the keyboard, the same spiral opens from a shortcut. Neither is the "real" way. The spiral is.
A small thing that turns out not to be small: the second card is already the last window, the thing Cmd-Tab pretends to be and isn't when the last thing was another window of the same app.
People map extra buttons to Back, or Mission Control, or nothing, because that is what the mouse's own software offers. Mission Control is not a reason to give up a button. "Every window I have open, here" is.