saragordic/rooms
Switch between projects on your Mac. Every project is a room: its windows, laid out, one shortcut away.
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A little Mac app I made for switching between projects. Every project is a room: a set of windows and a layout. Press ⌥Space, type the room's name, and your windows come back, laid out neatly. Everything else hides, and nothing is ever closed. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/70a207a0-72cd-42fc-9d75-8060b9c94516 See Rooms in action on X → You can just send this repo to your coding agent and ask it to install Rooms for you: Or install it yourself with Homebrew: Then open Rooms from your Applications folder. It lives in the menu bar. You can also grab the latest ZIP from Releases, unzip it, and drag Rooms.app into Applications. The app isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS blocks the first launch of the ZIP version: open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway after trying to launch it. Apple's instructions explain this step. (The Homebrew version opens straight away.) Rooms needs…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- Rooms
- Get it
- Make your first room
- Around the rooms
- Nothing closes
- Privacy
- A little work in progress
- Build it yourself
- Taking it off
- Contributing
- License
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What this repository does
Switch between projects on your Mac. Every project is a room: its windows, laid out, one shortcut away.
Repository facts
- Owner
- saragordic
- Primary language
- Swift
- Stars
- 352
- Forks
- 14
- Open issues + pull requests
- 7
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-23T21:35:54.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-26T18:55:26.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: macos, macos-app, menubar, menubar-app, productivity, swift, window-management, window-manager, workspaces
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