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Practical, research-backed guides on focus, remote work, and building better workspace habits on your Mac. No filler.
What is a Context Manager?
The category-defining guide. A context manager saves your complete work setup, apps, browser tabs, and window layout, as a named unit and restores it on demand. Here is what that means and how it differs from window managers, workspace managers, and app launchers.
How to Save and Restore Your Mac Workspace
Save a complete Mac workspace (apps, browser tabs, and window layout) and bring it back with a single shortcut. Plus where the native macOS features fall short.
Read guide Context switchingHow to Switch Between 3 to 5 Projects on a Mac
A method for switching between several projects without losing context or momentum, so each switch takes seconds instead of minutes.
Read guide Browser tabsHow to Stop Losing Your Browser Tabs When Switching Projects
Tabs scatter because nothing ties them to a project. Here is how to make each project's tabs part of a saved workspace so they return automatically.
Read guide Remote workHow to Recreate Office Focus at Home
The office gave you rituals, environmental cues, and transitions that triggered deep focus automatically. Here is how to rebuild that stack at home on your Mac.
Read guide AI ConnectionsHow to Connect an AI Client to Ikuna over MCP
Connect Claude Desktop or Codex to Ikuna over the Model Context Protocol, so an AI client can read your local focus data and act on your workspaces. Setup, permission and privacy controls, and which clients work today.
Read guide macOS SpacesMac Apps Keep Opening on the Wrong Desktop? How to Pin Them to a Space for Good
The built-in Assign To fix, why it fails for multi-window apps and restarts, and the workspace approach that survives all of it.
Read guide macOS SpacesHow to Stop macOS From Rearranging Your Spaces (and Restore Them After Restart)
The one setting that stops most Space shuffling, what still breaks Space order, and how to make your setup survive restarts and monitor changes.
Read guide Workspace restoreHow to Restore Your macOS Workspace Automatically
What macOS restores natively, where it stops, and how to set up a full automatic restore: apps, windows, browser tabs and profiles, and Focus Mode.
Read guide Window managementMoom Alternative for Full Workspace Restore (Beyond Window Snapping)
Moom stops at the window layer. The honest difference between window snapping and full workspace restore, and which tool solves which.
Read guide Window managementRectangle Alternatives: When Window Snapping Isn't Enough
Better snappers, tiling window managers, and the workspace tools that solve the problem Rectangle doesn't try to solve.
Read guide RoundupBest Mac Workspace Manager for Multi-Project Work in 2026
Context managers, workspace managers, and window snappers compared honestly, with a feature matrix and a decision tree.
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