Stash Window Enhancements

[JamesTJRead]

^ 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!

[rxhanson]

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!

[JamesTJRead]

legend. you'll need to add a 'buy me a coffee' button if this goes through, cheers!

[odysseus90210]

How about a label (displaying the window's name) on a stashed window?

[rxhanson]

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?

[odysseus90210]

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 …

[tigodev]

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.

[kerryj89]

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.

[rxhanson]

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!