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strangelove026yesterday at 12:02 PM0 repliesview on HN

Something that's helped me lately is setup alfred commands where various apps are bound to a combination key press. It's on my split keyboard and I can't recall but it's a combination of keys, but, I think ctrl+cmd+option (all on the right hand thumb cluster) and a letter where the letter is bound to an app

- z launches conductor (coding agents with worktrees)

- w launches wezterm

- f launches firefox

- c launches chrome

- d launches obsidian

- s launches slack

So I'll keep one of these full screened on the main monitor at all times. And then I've got maybe spotify open on the laptop usually which I generally ignore most of the day.

And if I need two apps I'll use rectangle to tile windows side by side

It seems like a minor thing but it's a less cognitively burdensome workflow for me as the day goes on than cmd tab would be.

Also here's the link to conductor, I'm not affiliated but really like their tool imperfections and all https://www.conductor.build/

Also also, shimmering obsidian is great for alfred users. Can search notes in my vault with spotlight https://github.com/chrisgrieser/shimmering-obsidian