Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management

Personally (as someone with ADHD), this would just relentlessly grind my gears. My thoughts are unpredictable by nature and so I value the "reliability" of knowing my chrome is two alt+tabs away, etc.

If an algorithm started messing with this and changing throughout the day... Damn, I'd go crazy.

So after switching, they will need a short moment to reorient: understand where they were taken, check if it matches where they wanted to go, and then either switch again or stop the switching process to resume work. In UX design, it's better if you can complete a longer process without having to halt and reorient many times in the process (like opening a menu that was hidden and wait for a loading animation to complete, until you can actually read the menu items are).

If it's impossible to keep a mental model of where you are in the system, and how you can move to another specific window, then actually EVERY window switch requires much more effort and conscious thought.

I think windowing systems, virtual desktops, spotlights, stage managers, exposés, mission controls, are all too complicated... I don't know what the solution is, and I think it's great that people are working on novel solutions. But I do know I want to easily switch between 2-4 windows without the order randomly changing.

Alt+tab is an optimal controller.

Maybe operating on the order of items in the queue, and use your prediction to sort windows, allowing faster selection? Even that disrupts sense of place - I know what applications I have open and where they are, and if I'm using alt+tab over 5 or more, I know the order in which I've opened them, and "where" I need to go to navigate to them.

There are second and third order impacts to changing interface behaviors, so the superficial benefit you might gain will be lost by creating friction at different levels.

A single key is insufficient for granular control, and no AI widget short of human level AI is going to capture the edge cases, which will create friction, at which point I will aggressively remove the offending piece of software.

I'd go back to the drawing board and work on a more complex model of window switching and all the ways in which people use alt+tab, and see if there's a use case for your idea at a different level. As it is, for me, it would interfere with a reliable and predictable interface, and I would be very unhappy.

One way to implement this is to use window manager with one workspace per window (or multiple related windows) and use a single hotkey to switch to it. Very muscle memory efficient and takes no confirmation delay.

Sounds like tiling window managers like sway or i3. Those don't have any sort of predictive switching but otherwise:

  - My window management is done via keybindings
  - The status bar is completely optional (personally I use it but there is no *need* to use it)
  - I set `hide_edge_borders smart_no_gaps` so if I only have 1 window open in a workspace, it doesn't have any border at all. No titlebar, no close/minimize/maximize buttons, just the window content.