7 ms·
Neat idea. I'm sure this will solve some friction for the neuroscientists/mathematicians out there with ~20+ windows open. Personally (as someone with ADHD), t
by deviation 1y ago
Neat idea. I'm sure this will solve some friction for the neuroscientists/mathematicians out there with ~20+ windows open.
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.
- fyurule 1y ago[flagged]
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- atommachinist 1y agoThanks! The long term goal of Smart Switcher is that the algorithm becomes reliable enough that window switching almost always requires only one Alt + Tab press. It's an ambitious goal that will require a lot of work, but that is the goal.
- HappMacDonald 1y agoThis sounds about on par with replacing all keystrokes by repeated alt+tab. From an information perspective, prediction can only be right as frequently as there is redundant data capable of being compressed.
- atommachinist 1y agoI am actually considering taking the concept further. Probably the most obvious would be browser tabs which would require creating a browser extension. I don't know if having the shortcut switch both windows and tabs would be helpful or start to become confusing.
- HappMacDonald 1y agolet me know once you've overloaded Alt+tab to also autocomplete text in the effort to eliminate all need to ever type. /satire
- Graziano_M 1y agoI similarly would have issue with the non-deterministic behaviour. I use space hammer and bind many apps directly to a dedicated chord each, so I know that (hyper)-b is browser, t for terminal, s for Spotify (or songs) etc.
- 0xWTF 1y agodeviation's ADHD has not read The Bitter Lesson https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson.pdf https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...