Stash Window Enhancements #716
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Thanks for the feedback. The delay setting makes sense, I'll add it to my stash backlog. As for window animation, unfortunately macOS has no available APIs for anything different. Maybe someday! |
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legend. you'll need to add a 'buy me a coffee' button if this goes through, cheers! |
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How about a label (displaying the window's name) on a stashed window? |
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An issue that arises from displaying text on stashed windows, or tabs associated with stashed windows, is that there would be an inclination to have rotated text so that it fits compactly on the side screen edges. I've read about studies where generally this is bad UI design because it's simply hard for a lot of people to read. Of course, this wouldn't affect top and bottom stashed windows, and it would be an optional setting, but I haven't made the jump to add this one in yet since there's not a straightforward path. Any thoughts about this? |
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Thanks for your prompt reply, Ryan! The problem is that I'd like to be able to identify the stashed window, and colors won't suffice for that (at least not for me). I don't have a problem with rotated text (that's the solution I was thinking of), but if you're averse to that, can you think of another way to identify it? I know that there are already a lot of options associated with stashing windows … |
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Would it be possible to re-arrange stashed windows? At times, I accidently unstash an app, and I don't want to unstash all so that I re-stash per the arrangement that I remember. Colours alone take a bit of time to remember which colour is what application etc. Easier for me to commit to memory the arrangement of apps. At present the colours are just stating that there's an app stashed, but I don't know what it is or what it holds. Many thanks for this awesome app. |
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I had this same exact request at #567 Stash is such a killer feature for periodic windows like terminals and AI agents, wish it was fleshed out some more. Let me know if you guys know of an app that takes the stash idea to the next level. While not quite the same, I found Tangrid which has a slick grouped tabs implementation. |
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Despite the lack of action here, I am still committed to improving Stash and will be making updates in the coming months. I'll see what I can do for #567 while I'm at it. Thanks for the feedback! |
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Hi Rectanglers! I'm also finding Stashing an amazingly fast way to move in/out of distracting apps, specially messaging/email. Similar with AI agents running in parallel you want to have the quickest way possible to switch between them when they signal they need attention. So i'm stashing several windows at right (messaging) and left (AI agents, mostly CLI running in terminals). I'm having troubles finding which stash tab correspond to the window i want to unstash, given colors seem to be "random" and position is not super consistent (i guess it depends on stashing order?). So a way to identify stashed windows would get stashing into a way more usable feature. My ideal would be to have stashed tabs include the app's icon and badge count similar to what the dock does. If this is not possible due to stash tabs limitations maybe a keyboard shortcut can be used to reveal more of each stashed window at its tab to make it easier to recognise them. THank you! |
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Thanks for the feedback. I have a release going out this week, and I’ll work on this for the immediate release after. I’ll post back here if I have an intermediate beta with it available for early testing. |
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Hi Ryan, thanks for the update regarding this. I use the stash feature daily, it's part of everything that I do on the computer. Will keep an eye out for any beta versions that you release, and look forward to its updates. cheers, |
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I'm in the middle of working on a number of Stash improvements, as noted in #901, and I've just added the configurable delay to the cursor leaving the window area in this intermediate release: v3.86. My plan is to get a few more Stash updates and polish in before pushing a release to the update channel, but feel free to give it a try as it should be stable. |
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Just a heads up that I pushed out another release to the update channel, v3.87, that can be updated to from within the app, and it changed how this configurable delay was done slightly. If you configured it in v3.86, you'll likely want to go back in and reconfigure it in v3.87. |
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Just updated - this perfects stash for me, can hesitate as much as I like now! - please add a buy me a coffee button 😅 
This is an interesting feature, for me personally I could live without the colored tabs and just use the app icon as a guide - maybe something that resembles the dock more would make it feel more native. I'd also want to add a bit more space to let the icon sit flush rather than overlap the screen, we can't set the padding on the screen edges? |
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Thanks for the feedback!
I agree, and I was thinking of a couple of implementations: one where you simply have the icons close together near the corner of the screen instead of a tab taking up the entire side, and another where the icons are still spaced out and there's just a divider shown where the tab ends/begins.
Alright, so I was going to add this in as it was suggested in #901, and I got to a point where I wanted to release the work I had completed so I pushed it out to the next release. The plan is to have the option to automatically have Rectangle Pro leave space when there's a tab, but not when there isn't. This will also line up well with me finally adding in configurable screen edge gaps to the UI. |
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Keen to see what you cook up - after using for a few hours the colored tabs become a lot less distracting, almost forget they are there, more options here would still be great but will be leaving this feature on its actually quite useful! |
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This works great! Now I don't have to be careful that my cursor doesn't move out of the window when selecting text quickly, etc. Thank you! |
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Glad to finally get to this one! Let me know if anything else comes up. |
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^ Please add a delay setting for when the cursor leaves the stashed window, it feels natural to move the cursor back to whatever you were doing rather than back to the screen edge to dismiss, only drama is there's no delay setting so its jerky. Ideally I should be able to leave the stash window, hesitate and go back to it without having to go back to the screen edge to expose it.
Some additional animation settings would be great too, not sure whats possible here - a window transparency effect like blur in / out would be ideal.
Stash is by far my favourite feature, makes working on a laptop screen a breeze and feels like a choice now rather than a compromise to ditch my monitor and go work in a cafe!
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