Field notes on finding your windows.
Short, practical, evergreen. How the Mac's own switching works, where it breaks, and what to do about it. New ones land when there's something worth saying.
Five ways to switch between Safari windows on a Mac
Every way to move between Safari windows on macOS, from the keyboard shortcut to the Window menu to a visual switcher, with the catch in each one.
Switching between Chrome windows on a Mac
How to move between Chrome windows on macOS using the keyboard, tab search, the Window menu, and a visual switcher, and why Cmd-Tab is the wrong tool.
Why Cmd-Tab hides minimized windows on a Mac
macOS treats a minimized window as put away, so Cmd-Tab and Mission Control skip it. The hidden Option-key trick, and the tools that show them properly.
Working across several Photoshop documents
Photoshop keeps open files as tabs in one window, which hides them from macOS. How to cycle, arrange and switch documents, and how to see them all at once.
Set up a Mac workspace you can come back to
How to keep the windows of one project together on a Mac without saving layouts or moving Spaces, using Canopy CMD workgroups.
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