#Hyperswitch force how to#
#Hyperswitch force install#

Hide the dock to get rid of notification icons.

LetвЂ™s combine all of the approaches above: All we need to do is open it from time to time and take a look in what it gathered. Getting rid of it is actually very easy but not what we want since it has itвЂ™s own strengths when combining it with the `do not disturb` mode and techniques above: Inside dnd, we wonвЂ™t get pinged for new notifications but it will still collect them for us. Use the social one only for social stuff and the work one only for work related tasks.ДЄ healthy notification center with automatic DnD and ordered by recents

#Hyperswitch force install#

Now that we have hyperswitch and spaces, we can easily install a second browser and have 1 on the work space and 1 on the social one. Having all your history and cookies available makes it even worse. This can happen subconscious but also deliberately when laziness or a tough problem comes up and you try to find distraction. When using your browser you use for your daily surfings on your work space, you will likely find yourself opening facebook / news pages more often than you want. All we have to do is completely replace our tab switcher with hyperswitch by changing itвЂ™s hotkeys to cmd+tab! cmd + tab is now cleaned up as well and canвЂ™t by accident force us into our social apps.ДЄnother culprit is the browser. Meet Hyperswitch! On the first look, this little app looks like a normal window switcher but it has one killer feature that sold it for me: Restrict switching to apps that are on the current desktop. But where does it all come together at? The dock, home of all the red notification icons and the first component we have to eliminate. It isnвЂ™t hard to see all these things that could distract you: Skype and slack messages, messenger push notifications and even emails distract.

LetвЂ™s try to get this organised! Identifying the culprits For social stuff: Mailbox, Tweetbot, iMessage, Kakaotalk and Line.For communication I have Slack, Skype and AirMail (for corporate emails).For development I usually run iTerm, intellij, VIM, Dash and a browser.

#Hyperswitch force how to#

So I spent a few hours figuring out how to work productively without sacrificing on connectivity. Just when you actually have to work on something, things can get difficult. I like getting my iMessage notifications, facebook popups and tweet replies in real time and I love all the applications that enable such a connected experience.

I love my Mac and I love being connected to everything. Mac productivity tip: Effectively getting rid of distractions