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Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder

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Spatial Finder for macOS

This project contains scripts that once installed, make the macOS Finder remember every folder's size and position on the screen and restores it when you revisit said folder. Only folders inside the Documents folder are affected.

This is inspired by the following article: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/ .

Tip: hide the Finder sidebar (^ ⌘ S) and toolbar (⌥ ⌘ T) to have every folder open in its own window.

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Requirements

yabai (required disabling SIP).

If you don't have yabai or don't want to (or can't) turn of SIP, you could achieve similar behaviour by hiding the Finder sidebar (^ ⌘ S) and toolbar (⌥ ⌘ T).

Installation

Link all 3 scripts to a place in the path and execute install.sh to install the yabai rules.

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