Seamless app switching with minimal learning curve
- Use spatial memory to put your desired app in focus more quickly
- Cut out trips to the dock or cmd tab with just one modifier key combo
How many times do you change which app has focus in a day? Before building this, I used to use a combination of cmd+tab, Spotlight, and good old-fashioned window or dock clicking to switch and launch apps. I didn't think there was a problem there to solve, but it turns out that all of this added up to a significant amount of mental friction. All the other solutions I found required a lot of memorization, muscle memory, and customization to overcome this friction.
With Charmstone, all of that memorization, muscle memory and customization overhead is miniscule; you can skip straight to efficiency. There's a memorization technique called the memory palace where your brain can rapidly recollect where something was placed. Combine that with only having to remember one or two modifier keys instead of a whole slew of keyboard shortcuts, and you have something brilliantly fast with practically no learning curve.
You can use the modifier+cursor movement, modifier+arrow keys, or a highly optimized trackpad gesture that is simple to perform but not so easy to accidentally trigger.
Access your apps like a CPU accessing a cache rather than going all the way out to RAM or disk.