Andrew’s Mac Tips Weblog

I’ve been playing a little bit with Screenshot Helper. Its premise is that you can de-clutter your background in order to make screenshots — and that it does. However, an interesting side effect is that you can use it to generally de-clutter your workspace.

Here’s an example of what I mean (and remember, it’s much easier to do than it is to explain):

I’m looking at a website in Safari and I open three new windows to follow links on the page; I also download a file. Now I’ve got four windows overlapping, plus the download window. I can Cmd-` to step through them, but there’s still that background clutter.

Now I launch Screenshot Helper which shows nothing but a clean Desktop. I switch to one of the Safari windows using Witch, and now I see only that window — over a clean Desktop; now when I Cmd-` each subsequent Safari window is on its own on the clean Desktop.

Sure, I know there are other helper apps like Think, and Virtue Desktop that let you concentrate on only one application, but Screenshot Helper currently seems the best answer for concentrating on only one window.