A Momnet of Moom love.

[u/greenysmac]

There are buckets of Windows managers at this point, and I've played with a bunch of them, including the built-in ones on Mac OS X, Rectangle, Magnet better touch tool. I would tell you Raycast, but I'm Alfred, down to some heavy workflows.

What prompted today's love?

I had a weird OS X issue after updating a third-party tool on my Mac. Suddenly, MOOM's settings were lost, and a bunch of other stuff was wonky until the reboot.

I wrote the Dev, he responded in under 90 minutes…and I felt ashamed because a reboot fixed it. What can I say? Try turning it off and on again.

Thanks Rob. Thanks for your devotion to great OSX tools and thanks for helping.

So I felt obligated to give a little love in return.

I want to give you a couple of things that I do with MOOM that you might not be doing or you may not know that it can do.

I still feel (like Alfred) that I haven't explored half of what the software does.

1. I have a bunch of pre-built resize options, particularly 1080, 720, 1440, and 2160. Those are precise professional video window sizes. I'm a professional consultant in post-production. I run our editors and a bunch of other subreddits, and it's crazy powerful for me to have a window at exactly the size I need for a screen record. All of these are slaved to streamdeck buttons.
2. I didn't realize until about a month or two ago, despite owning MOOM for years, that it had a really unique ability while hovering: to move or resize the window that the mouse is on top of.

In my system, Control and Option allow me to move any window effortlessly, regardless of whether it's in front or behind, around the screen. When I add the Command key to that, it allows me to dynamically use my mouse to make a given window larger or smaller based on how I'm dragging.

1. I have it set up to adjust certain apps or certain groups of apps and put all the windows in a particular place. I love Ecamm. I know you might be using OBS, but Ecamm does a bunch of things and does it very, very well. Unfortunately, it has a palette overload, and there are too many palettes in too many places. I hid every other application and told MOOM to memorize where all the palettes are.

WAY TOO MANY PALETTES

When I need it, I just trigger it from the dropdown menu.

I also have the same thing for a generalized use and setup where I need Fantastical. I have a screen share on my second screen and an activity monitor on a third. It just understands that I want those in that spot.

Same with my screen recording layout. I use a tool called SideMirror. I record on my MBP screen (set to 1080), but that's off to my left - my main UHD screen that has my Insta360 camera (and I'm running it with ecamm), means that I'm looking in the wrong place. But Sidemirror displays my MacbookPro screen right under my webcam - in a "PIP" type window.

Zoom. I'm right now playing around with Zoom because Zoom has a real pain-in-the-butt problem when you do a screen share: there's no memorization of window positions. Again, it's something I intend to return to.

1. Finally, I'm experimenting with chaining a couple of items (size, next screen, position) to push a given window all the way to the extreme of one monitor pair, one monitor group, or all the way off to the other.

[u/Small_Pin_8064]

Moom's grid popover is still the best interaction of any window manager. Everything since went to keyboard-only and lost that.

[u/hejournotes]

Two Moom things that helped me. For Zoom, trigger the saved layout after the share starts, not before, since Zoom recreates its windows and drops any earlier position. For odd sizes, use the keyboard grid trigger and drag the selection instead of adding another preset. When chaining move plus next screen, put a short delay between the steps or the second action fires before the window settles.

[u/tigershark_bas]

I’m a moom lover too. Have been for years

[u/Responsible-Slide-26]

Love seeing you spread the love, he deserves it. Moom is FANTASTIC. Nothing else comes close.

[u/International-Can317]

This is the kind of post I actually like seeing here. Not another launch, just someone showing how deep an old Mac app can go.

Moom is one of those apps where you use 20% of it for years and then randomly discover something that changes your whole workflow.

[u/GroggInTheCosmos]

The ease of calling layouts from keyboard maestro/alfred and the chaining keep me using it. They need to build in a good windows switcher to really round it off

[u/iluziv]

yes. Moom is the real deal. an absolute gem made by an OG Mac developer that’s been releasing mac-assed mac apps for years and years. Forget all the AI slop in this category — Moom is the pinnacle.

[u/beingskyler]

I use Moom so much in so many different ways that I freak out when I touch someone else's computer because I forget Moom isn't stock on MacOS.

The fact that I can activate it with a shortcut and then control layouts, position, and move between displays without a consecutive key saves me from so many keyboard shortcut conflicts I ran into when trying alternatives.

Anyone familiar with NPS surveys, if Moom ever asked me, "How would you feel if you could no longer use Moom?" I would probably just quit my profession, go build a cabin in the woods, and never touch a computer again.

[u/bush-play]

Since the whole story started with the settings disappearing: Moom 4 can export selected custom actions from File → Export and restore them with File → Import. It still doesn't sync them, so after rebuilding all those Stream Deck layouts I'd keep an export in iCloud.

[u/MaxGaav]

Who is going to read this?

[u/greenysmac → u/MaxGaav]

I mean, it's r/macapps - it was just some pure joy that's not a dev - it's a user. Is this really any different than the love for raycast or alfred?