[Poll] do you / will you use stage manager ?

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Just curious how many of you are using stage manager or plan on using it .i don't mean trying but using ,as in making it a feature you use daily ,nay a part of your workflow

 

[generationfourth]

I’m strictly a Mac OS user and yes I’m excited for it. Seems to be misunderstood… There are a lot of use cases where I have a lot of desktops open and need organization within each space/desktop.

use case #1: separating out different apps within a certain space

Use case #2: having stages, staging areas?, dedicated to certain tasks (all related finder, browser, notion, safari windows) and parking the stage so when I get feedback I can pick up exactly where I left off without having to track down all associated artifacts

 

[BotchQue]

On my iPad, definitely.
On my Mac, we'll see.

 

[planteater]

I won't use it as I'm not looking for a new means to manage my windows. But for those that it will help their workflow, go for it. More options to manage your workspace the better.

 

[Tagbert]

I think I’ll wait until it launches, try it out and see if it works for me. I’m not interested in running betas while I’ve got work to do and it looks like they are still making changes and fixing bugs in Stage Manager. From what I’ve seen it looks like it might be a useful tool for working with a small number of apps during some use cases, so I remain open to the idea of using it. Mac OS gives us different ways to work with apps and I find some useful (cmd-tab switching) and others not (full screen mode and spaces). Each one required some hands-on time to understand and evaluate.

 

[rickster2kuk]

If I am honest I used it and hated it even on the mac. I get it can be useful but being limited to say 4 apps just didn't work for me. I also disliked the way it hid my desktop so I couldn't see my drives easily.

It also seemed to reduce the space on the screen and I get if you have a bigger monitor you can negate this.

I also found on my iPad it just made the app I was working on too small because you had this semi wasted space to the left of the screen.

I get that it works well for others but I will just on my mac still to either mission control or desktops that personally work better for me.

 

[ThailandToo]

It’s a joke. Apple could so easily implement something like true multitasking or allow MacOS apps to run on the iPad Pro. They have M1 SoCs and are basically worthless. What’s a computer? Not anything running iPadOS.

 

[unrigestered]

no. cheap "solution" that hasn't been deemed good enough to be on Mac for the last 15 years or so.

if Apple truly wanted to improve macOS, they'd add improvements to the Dock, Spaces, Exposé and Mission Control instead

i just hope that Stage Manager will be disabled completely! if the switch is set to "off" as even just 0.00000001% of system resources would be wasted on this.
not very positive that my wish will be granted though

 

[ingambe]

I would have preferred to get something like Window's Snap Assist

I don't see the benefit of Stage Manager over multiple desktops + Rectangle to get something like Snap Assist

 

[Tagbert]

I would have preferred to get something like Window's Snap Assist

I don't see the benefit of Stage Manager over multiple desktops + Rectangle to get something like Snap Assist

I do wish that Apple would provide a better window manager. The super basic stuff on hover of the green icon are just too limited and hidden. I also would prefer to get rid of or repurpose the green button. that full screen mode is just too weird and isolated to be as useful as a simple "maximize window" function. I think it confuses new users (and some others, too). While we are at it, what do the stop-light colors have to do with window management anyway?

 

[unrigestered]

i use custom keyboard shortcuts for window management
shift + left makes the window take up the left half of the screen
shift + right for the right half
shift + down = back to initial state (maximized in most cases for my windows)

that's all i need.
sadly, it's sometimes somehow loosing focus on the window frame after a while with the arrow keys then controlling the contents of the window then without any way to get focus back to the frame without quitting and re-opening those apps, but for the quick window alignment without changing placements several times, it's usually working fine for me

 

[ingambe]

i use custom keyboard shortcuts for window management
shift + left makes the window take up the left half of the screen
shift + right for the right half
shift + down = back to initial state (maximized in most cases for my windows)

that's all i need.
sadly, it's sometimes somehow loosing focus on the window frame after a while with the arrow keys then controlling the contents of the window then without any way to get focus back to the frame without quitting and re-opening those apps, but for the quick window alignment without changing placements several times, it's usually working fine for me

You might want to have a look into Rectangle (it's free) which allows you to customize even further your shortcuts for window management

 

[R3k]

Mission Control and full screen app swiping is superior with my workflow.

 

[unrigestered]

i know about that, but i prefer using native solutions, especially if these are working pretty satisfactory in most cases.
But of course i wouldn't mind if window snapping behavior saw major improvements in the future, as someone pointed out: the default window "snapping" methods via that green button and full screen behavior are awful

 

[unrigestered]

Mission Control and full screen app swiping is superior in the ways I need imo, and im used to it.

that way, you won't have both a PDF to read from and Pages to take notes to that set up in the best (and quickest) way possible to use them simultaneously, without having to "switch" between those apps all the time.

i usually just do CMD+tab if i just want to achieve the latter, but i really dig Mission Control (and Exposé) too. They should fix those random (re)arrangements of apps inside the Mission Control / Exposé views though - oh and they should also be able to handle hidden or minimized apps, and not completely ignore those like they currently do.

drag & drop between 2 instances of perfectly set up instances of Finder, etc are also really nice scenarios for "split screen" usages (that actually work super fast and intuitive, not requiring awkward/cumbersome methods like they are implemented currently)

 

[dumastudetto]

Yes, yes, yes!!! t's the biggest paradigm shift in computing since iPhone.

 

[Bodhitree]

I think I’ll wait until it launches, try it out and see if it works for me. I’m not interested in running betas while I’ve got work to do and it looks like they are still making changes and fixing bugs in Stage Manager. From what I’ve seen it looks like it might be a useful tool for working with a small number of apps during some use cases, so I remain open to the idea of using it. Mac OS gives us different ways to work with apps and I find some useful (cmd-tab switching) and others not (full screen mode and spaces). Each one required some hands-on time to understand and evaluate.

That’s more or less what I’m planning to do. I will give it a fair try, although I am not hopeful that Stage Manager will prove to be my cup of tea. I think the best thing Apple could do to improve the use of windows would be to provide an always visible, categorical list of windows on-screen, so that you don’t have to hunt through open windows and what bits are visible, or bring the app to the front and then grab the window. It’s my one annoyance with MacOS, and an area where Windows is actually a bit more convenient.