alfred-mouseless-messenger VS Rectangle

If you use Alfred, consider my workflow, Mouseless Messenger.

My most popular workflow is Mouseless Messenger, and it's based entirely in Alfred — written in JXA.

I use JXA to write Alfred workflows like Mouseless Messenger. My desktop is an Intel Mac Pro and is where I do most of my development for pretty much everything.

I've updated Mouseless Messenger to v2.0.1.

Feel free to follow me on Twitter or star the repository to get updates for when that releases.

I write workflows for it using JXA, and the amount of time it's saved me more time than I can even begin to consider. For example, Mouseless Messenger lets me respond to iMessage/SMS without ever leaving the current app or touching the mouse.

If you're using iCloud Messages, I'm told it may not work correctly. See some of the closed issues on https://github.com/stephancasas/alfred-mouseless-messenger/issues to see what others have done.

Is it shameful to say my own? I wrote Mouseless Messenger so I could read and reply to iMessage/SMS messages from Alfred. It saves me so much clicking and context switching.

Rectangle’s installation is incredibly straightforward. Its immediate out-of-the-box functionality was a pleasant surprise. For anyone seeking to reduce the friction of window management on their Mac, Rectangle is a solution I wholeheartedly recommend.

Tip: I use Rectangle app to set up keyboard shortcuts to resize windows (I only have three shortcuts there: left/right half of the screen and full screen).

But Raycast also has some functionality in that direction.

[1] - https://rectangleapp.com/

Two more little utilities that I cannot live without on Mac:

A tiling window manager like https://rectangleapp.com/

Muzzle, which automatically silences desktop notifs when you're screensharing https://muzzleapp.com/

I suggest using Rectangle instead of Magnet; it has the same features but is free. I don't know what other Windows features you want to have.

I’ve used this app forever. Adds in all the window snapping features.

third-party window management apps like Magnet and Rectangle

Rectangle Mac - Move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard shortcuts or snap areas, similar to Windows.

I was a Spectacle user for years, but I recently switched to using Rectangle for window management. Rectangle has a few more options than Spectacle; I’m still getting used to it but I have no strong feelings either way.