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The time savings that can be made by not switching between our keyboard and our mouse can make a huge difference in our productivity. It’s best to pick the Recommended shortcuts as it will give us a more unified experience using Rectangle.Īs we’ve discussed before it’s important to learn the keyboard shortcuts to any application that we use all the time. It’s very important to do this because without Rectangle being checked in this preference pane Rectangle will not work.Īfter this has been done we’ll get a question about shortcuts. Rectangle will prompt us and bring us to the correct screen. The first thing we need to do is to allow Rectangle to control our computer in the “Accessibility” section of the “Privacy” tab in the System Preferences. Now that we’ve installed the application we’re going to launch it for the first time. Once the DMG has been verified and opened it will open a new Finder window so we can drag Rectangle into the Applications directory. Drag application into Application Directory

#Macos windows keyboard shortcuts download#

The first step is to download the DMG file from and then open it. Installing Rectangle is a simple process. We’re mentioning Spectacle because there are references to it in Rectangle and we wanted to give some background information on it for when we encounter those references. Spectacle is no longer in active development and Rectangle does everything Spectacle did and more so we’re recommending it now. It was usually the second application installed on any new computer. A Note About Spectacleįor years we’ve used Spectacle to manage our application windows. This post is an adaptation of Using Rectangle to Manage macOS Windows on our YouTube Channel. This post will discuss Rectangle only but if you want to support Ryan and the future development of Rectangle and Hookshot you can purchase a copy through the website. The big difference between the two appears to be the fact that we have better control over window placement using our mouse in Hookshot.

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At the time of this writing, there’s a 10-day free trial and then it’s $7.99 USD for a license. Ryan also develops Hookshot which is a utility built on Rectangle with some additional bells and whistles. Rectangle allows us to manage our application windows using keyboard shortcuts and mouse hotspots. Rectangle is a free and open source application built by Ryan Hanson and distributed on.

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By using Rectangle we can operate more effectively and in turn generate code faster. This can take up a lot of time during our day and can be compounded if we have large or multiple monitors. As knowledge workers, we spend a lot of time managing windows on our computers.