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I'm writing a paper. Well, I'm procrastinating on writing a paper by writing a halfbakery idea. Right now I have a couple of tabs open in Firefox as well as two Pages documents, a PDF document open in Preview, and Evernote of course. It gets hard to keep track of all this and ~3 seconds is far too
long to find the window I'm looking for. If I minimize things they go to the dock but they sit next to my other programs which doesn't make them easier to find.
The idea then: when I select "multitasking mode" the currently open programs on the dock should rise up to be level with the top of the dock, making them easily identifiable. Making them a brighter color is nice but you still have to look along the dock to find them, and actually setting them apart would be the quickest way to identify one.
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The thing at the bottom of the screen with icons on it. I believe on a Windows system it's called a "task bar". |
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ah I see: I think the Windows equivalent would be the "QuickLaunch" area of the Taskbar (which also has an area for icons of open program iterations which is what you want). sounds good. |
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Um, just hit Cmd-Tab to see what programs you have
running. |
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Yeah, or fiddle about with that Exposé/Spaces thing where (if you're suitably finnicky about these things) so you can move/assign different programs to working areas of your choice. |
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Personally, I think it's a bit OCDish to have to organise things quite as closely as that - but then again, I sometimes feel unusual if my coloured pencils aren't arranged in "Rainbow" order in their box, so I can't really talk. |
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//my coloured pencils aren't arranged in "Rainbow" order in their box, |
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Mine too, but from the other side of the rainbow. |
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//just hit Cmd-Tab to see what programs you have running// There are a lot of ways to see which programs I have running. This one is just better. |
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// I sometimes feel unusual if my coloured pencils
aren't arranged in "Rainbow" order // Where does
brown fit? |
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//Where does brown fit?// |
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If they're in rainbow order then presumably they're
first sorted by hue, then potentially other channels,
to taste. So presumably - near red. A more pressing
question pertains to purple. Greyscale shades are
also unspecified. |
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Surely they have to match the order in the illustration printed on the box? |
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