Discover Stage Manager

When Ventura was announced, one of the new features that got the most attention and press coverage was Stage Manager, which Apple clearly feels is a revolutionary new way to manage windows. Turn it on, and files on your desktop disappear, while the frontmost app moves to the center of the screen, and all other apps shrink to thumbnails on the side of your screen, with multiple windows grouped by app (only the five most recent apps are shown). You can bring back other windows (or groups of windows) with a click, and you can customize Stage Manager in various ways to meet your needs.

I’ve been using Stage Manager for a while now, and although I don’t exactly hate it, it seems to me to be a solution to a problem I didn’t ...

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