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https://cleave.app https://cleave.app Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their wi

by eivarv 6y ago

https://cleave.app https://cleave.app Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level. Started because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources. Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources. I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

topnde 6y ago
Wow this is a really nice idea. Signed up.
lonesword 6y ago
Nice. My solution to this (on arch linux) was to maintain a script that would open the stuff I need on specific workspaces. I'd always need the following to get work done: 1. Browser on workspace 1 2. Pycharm/IDE on workspace 2 3. Terminals ssh-ed into the compute server on workspace 3 4. Workspace 4 is empty - I use this as my scratch workspace 5. Workspace 5 contains slack and spotify i3 provides you a way to map each application to each workspace. So it was pretty easy to get ^ this setup at the press of a button.
ftruzzi 6y ago
This is awesome. I have found myself needing such a tool many times. I'm using tab managers in Chrome but this looks so much better. Good luck!
sdfhbdf 6y ago
Nice idea but have you considered just using built-in MacOS spaces for that? What't the limiting factor for you in them?
- eivarv 6y ago
  Resource (and battery) usage + human context switching/information overload.
2rsf 6y ago
This would be awesome if it works well and for every app
- eivarv 6y ago
  Yeah; in most cases it depends on how the specific apps use OS-features, but I've also implemented a way to make app-specific extensions (i.e. define which files are involved in handling a specific app's state), so that users can customize and potentially extend the functionality and share these definitions (maybe even contribute upstream).

by eivarv 6y ago

topnde 6y ago

Wow this is a really nice idea. Signed up.

lonesword 6y ago

Nice. My solution to this (on arch linux) was to maintain a script that would open the stuff I need on specific workspaces. I'd always need the following to get work done: 1. Browser on workspace 1 2. Pycharm/IDE on workspace 2 3. Terminals ssh-ed into the compute server on workspace 3 4. Workspace 4 is empty - I use this as my scratch workspace 5. Workspace 5 contains slack and spotify i3 provides you a way to map each application to each workspace. So it was pretty easy to get ^ this setup at the press of a button.

ftruzzi 6y ago

This is awesome. I have found myself needing such a tool many times. I'm using tab managers in Chrome but this looks so much better. Good luck!

sdfhbdf 6y ago

Nice idea but have you considered just using built-in MacOS spaces for that? What't the limiting factor for you in them?

eivarv 6y ago
Resource (and battery) usage + human context switching/information overload.

2rsf 6y ago

This would be awesome if it works well and for every app

eivarv 6y ago
Yeah; in most cases it depends on how the specific apps use OS-features, but I've also implemented a way to make app-specific extensions (i.e. define which files are involved in handling a specific app's state), so that users can customize and potentially extend the functionality and share these definitions (maybe even contribute upstream).