macOS app for faster app switching
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I like Contexts too! I've used it heavily for about a year.
But it still felt it needed too many key presses.
And it also required me to visually assess if the selected app is what I want.
rcmd is a better approach for me because I don't have to context switch to another app switching UI. I just focus the app I want with a single hotkey and I get to work uninterrupted.
If you used Windows before, you'll be familiar with Win+Number to switch to the apps you see in the taskbar.
rcmd is kind of like that but better. You don't have to count apps in a taskbar, you just have to know the app name. |rcmd + first letter of app name| will instantly switch to that app.
If you have more apps with the same first letter, you can cycle by pressing the same letter again, or you can assign a different letter to the second app using rcmd + ralt + any letter (where ralt is what we call the Right Option key)
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But I can cmd-tab with the best of them ... and my switch time is exceptionally fast
But I reached a point where I have so many different apps open that I have to spam the Tab key more than 4-6 times to get to the app I want at that moment. It becomes annoying.
Like, right now I have 10 different apps open and I need all of them for the task at hand (developing a new Mac app, while troubleshooting a bug in another app when the user with the issue replies):
Sublime Text
Xcode
kitty
Firefox
zoom
Mimestream
Sketch
Noteplan
Spotify
SoulverYour "10 different apps open" is nothing :)
I can cmd-tab in under a second most of the time
This app would actually slow me down