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I'm currently trying to solve this and more in an application called Cleave.

https://cleave.app

Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level.

I started working on it because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources; Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.

I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...

In the meantime, I've used various browser extensions to save and restore open tabs.




How does this compare to virtual desktops? Isn't this their main use?


Compared to virtual desktops, this allows you to close down apps (consume less resources) as well as maintain multiple working context-specific application states.




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