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An interesting idea, but not something that would fit my workflow for several reasons (not the least of which is it's Windows-only). Cmd-Tab on Mac and Alt-Tab
by apozem 1y ago
An interesting idea, but not something that would fit my workflow for several reasons (not the least of which is it's Windows-only).
Cmd-Tab on Mac and Alt-Tab on Windows does the same thing every time. Its consistency lets me use it extremely quickly, with confidence. It does what I want it to, every time. I don't wish to sound dramatic, but if I hit a shortcut with a window in mind, and this app picked the wrong window even once, I would uninstall it immediately. "Cmd-Tab, but it doesn't work sometimes" sounds frustrating and strictly worse than the system shortcut.
Maybe it should look more like GitHub Copilot. It watches what you're doing and shows a small indicator somewhere of the window it thinks you want to switch to. If the app guessed right, you hit a keyboard shortcut and switch to it. If the app guessed wrong, you just ignore the suggestion, like with Copilot.
- haiku2077 1y agoReminds me of how some FPS games have a "quick weapon switch" button to toggle to a specific weapon separate from the full menu of all weapons.
- thenthenthen 1y agoUh.. it does not? Alt+Tab on windows switches all the windows, indiscriminately. Cmd+Tab on osx only switches between apps? If you have two Firefox windows on osx, you need Cmd+~ to switch between them, when you have finally reached the Firefox app through Cmd+Tabbing
- apozem 1y agoI am aware that Microsoft and Apple have implemented fast window-switching slightly differently. I use both OSes daily. The point I was making was both make similar high-level design decisions. When you begin alt-tabbing, you cycle between your other open windows, arranged by how recently they were last open. Cmd-Tab is the same, but between apps. Both features rearrange items only based on recency, and always keep the same order.
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- atommachinist 1y agoThe Copilot idea is interesting, I'll have to look into it. One thing I want to be clear on is once you press the override shortcut, the override is saved as the default switch option for that window and the algorithm won't change this.