I'd always been frustrated with how little control Windows gives you over the apps you have open, and found it to be excessively taxing on my attention span to try to figure out how to get back to what I was last working on, without having to Alt + tab 10 times every time I flip to another application. I also always found the i3wm tiling solution on Linux to be elegant, but not practical for the average windows user with a lot of applications running 24/7. So I developed something in between - Hub Window Manager. The app starts by showing you all the apps currently running (the left hand side of the first screenshot), and from there, allows you to group those apps, where each group is automatically assigned a shortcut so that when clicked, all the apps within that group will be reopened. The app also allows you (and this is my favorite feature) to snap apps (see second and third screenshots) automatically so that each app within the group you wanted snapped takes up an equal amount of screen real estate (and it supports multimonitor setups too!), and you can snap an unlimited number of apps. No more manually snapping windows and then trying to reconfigure them when you flip to another app!
Please do get in touch if you have any feedback, or want to suggest additional features.
See more visual demonstrations at hubwindowmanager.com as well as the download details (available in the Windows App Store today!)
Please do get in touch if you have any feedback, or want to suggest additional features.
See more visual demonstrations at hubwindowmanager.com as well as the download details (available in the Windows App Store today!)