Spirited Away!
Spirited Away is a little helper for your Mac which makes it easy to work with multiple apps at the same time and makes everything else (literally) disappear.
How I use my computer has changed since I got an iPhone. Smartphones are amazing one-task-at-a-time devices, yet they allow you to multi-task by letting you be productive while you’re doing something else.
Smartphones are great while waiting for someone, walking somewhere, or when the person you’re eating with excuses themselves and goes to the restroom - where they are no doubt using their own phone.
On the other hand, your computer has to be a good place for you to do focused work and efficient multi-tasking. Apple’s solutions aren’t great - managing multiple Spaces, hunting for windows in Exposé, or simply trying to ignore the clutter of a day’s worth of windows.
Spirited Away helps you focus without having to think about it by automatically hiding apps that you haven’t used for more then 5 minutes. For example, Preview, Excel and iCal shouldn’t be visible if you’re trying to get something done using Excel, Mail.app and Chrome.
At any rate, download Spirited Away. It’s free, it’s from Japan, and I have no idea if it’ll be updated again but it’s great. I’m excited to see how the computer experience will grow and contrast as smartphones continue to evolve.
Now is also a good time for you to watch or re-watch the movie and think about the over-indulgent and spiritually-taxing way we use our computers ;)
