Absolutely mission critical! A tool so useful I forget it’s not part of OSX.

Clicking the green plus sign on an app delivers unpredictable results. Maybe now the app is half screen, maybe it’s full screen. Different apps behave differently, and if you want to move them around, you have to click and drag, click and drag…

:Infomercial voice: There’s GOTTA be a better way!

Divvy sets up a user-defined grid that allows you to move things around with ease. But wait, there’s more! With keyboard shortcuts, you can define grid settings and move things with a keystroke (I use t = top half, b= bottom half, a = full screen, 1 = top left corner, 2 = top right corner, as well as others. So when I launch an collection of apps, like a browser, a text editor and a terminal, I can see everything easily. When I use Logic, I can move my mixer around depending on what I’m working on.

It works great with multiple monitors as well.

I use Divvy LITERALLY hundreds of times a day, and it is absolutely mission critical to the way I work. I HIGHLY recommend this app to anybody who has lots of screen real estate, runs multiple programs at once, or is just very particular about how things are laid out. It will save you a ton of time.

Matt the Tech about Divvy - Window Manager