Notes on focus, multi-monitor Macs and typing without the mouse.
Practical write-ups from the people who make Glance Switch.
Mac window management: the built-in tools, the best apps, and AeroSpace vs yabai
How to manage windows on a Mac: macOS tiling, Stage Manager and Mission Control, plus Rectangle, Magnet, AeroSpace and yabai compared, and which to pick.
Read the post →How to use a vertical monitor with a Mac: rotate, arrange and actually use it
Rotate a monitor to portrait on a Mac, arrange it next to your other screens, fix scaling, and decide what to put on a vertical display.
Read the post →How to set up multiple monitors on a Mac, and actually work faster with them
Set up two or three monitors on a Mac: arrange displays, pick the main one, fix scaling, move windows between screens, and stop losing your pointer and focus.
Read the post →How to switch between windows on a Mac, including windows of the same app
Every way to switch windows on a Mac: ⌘Tab, ⌘`, App Exposé, Mission Control, an Alt-Tab app, and switching by screen on multiple monitors.
Read the post →Focus follows mouse on Mac: what works, and what to use instead
macOS has no focus-follows-mouse setting. Here's what works instead: Terminal and iTerm2 settings, AutoRaise, yabai, and focus that follows your eyes.
Read the post →“Displays have separate Spaces” on Mac: what it does and when to turn it off
“Displays have separate Spaces” gives each monitor its own Spaces, menu bar and full-screen apps. What it means, where to find it, and when to turn it off.
Read the post →Why you keep typing into the wrong window on a multi‑monitor Mac
On a Mac with more than one display, your keystrokes go to the window that has focus, not the one you're looking at. Here's why, what the usual fixes cost, and how to make focus follow your eyes.
Read the post →How to focus split panes in iTerm2, VS Code and Ghostty without clicking
Keyboard shortcuts for moving between split panes in iTerm2, VS Code and Ghostty, why they still slow you down, and how to focus a pane just by looking at it.
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