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Show HN: SpacePill – Better macOS Space Context Switching
2 points by jakequist 102 days ago
https://github.com/jakequist/spacepill

I manage 3-6 AI coding agents at a time. I rely heavily on MacOS's Spaces feature (i.e. the ability to swap desktops). But I found it hard to keep track of which Space doing what, since they all had the same set of windows (terminal, editor, browser, etc).

So I made this utility to render a big color-coded 'pill' in the MenuBar. See GitHub repo for screenshots.

But more than just a visual 'pill' in the MenuBar, it has a global hotkey to quickly navigate to your target space. So if you're working on project "foo" in Space 3, you can quickly jump there by hitting cmd+shift+J + "fo..."