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Organizing your macos workspaces

I recently got fed up with the "long" animations when switching between screens on my mac. I love the feeling of switching instantaneously between programs on my linux machines – could there be a way to get that feeling on macos?

I finally found Aerospace: a window manager that replaces the "Spaces" concept on macos, and allows you to manage many, many programs over multiple displays pretty much instantly.

I am using a mostly-vanilla config file, which means that I use my "alt" or "option" key to switch between Aerospace's "workspaces". Each workspace contains a set of windows, arranged in a particular order. When I use, say "alt+T", I get to a workspace where I've sent my terminal windows. When I use "alt+C", I get to a workspace where I've sent all my messaging applications.

I highly encourage you to try it out. It's easily uninstalled, and it's made my workflow a breeze lately.