Keyboard-Only Window Cycling with Stage Manager

I’m trying to figure out whether the following workflow is possible on macOS (BTT, Keyboard Maestro, Karabiner, etc)

I use Stage Manager, and within each stage I have multiple active windows (not minimized or hidden). What I’d like is:

Window cycling within a stage

I want to cycle through the active windows in the current stage using:

• Double Left Shift → move to the previous window

• Double Right Shift → move to the next window

Essentially a “rolodex” or circular window switcher limited to the current stage.

Stage cycling + window selection

I’d like to use Command + Up Arrow to cycle through Stage Manager stages. When I do this, Stage Manager expands the windows in that stage. From there, I want to immediately use the same Double Shift-based window cycling (from #1) to quickly move through the windows in the newly selected stage.

Is something like this achievable?

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I can't record internal audio on my Mac.
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AlwaysOnTop - Keep a URL, PDF, Videos, Notes and more on top

I made a small, native mac app called "Always on Top"

http://alwaysontop.app

It lets you open anything in a window that stays on top of other windows i.e. URLs, PDFs, text, videos, notes, your camera feed, images etc.

Would love to know what you think or what else you’d want it to do.

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Offline Universal File Converter

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Keyboard Maestro - Best Video I’ve seen

For those looking to finally learn Keyboard Maestro:

https://youtu.be/reXNfWQMiNU?si=VoYsYFkqGZtS61QE

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Working on a clipboard sync app for Mac + Android — would love feedback

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The story of how I ended up resetting my iMac while using the PearCleaner app.

One thing I want to make clear is that the PearCleaner app did not reset my iMac.

I really like the PearCleaner app. Even after this incident, I still do. I think PearCleaner is functionally an excellent app.

So, what exactly happened? I was, of course, deleting an app. It was a very small app, but strangely, it was taking up a lot of space. Since it was a local AI app, I assumed it was because of the AI models I had downloaded without thinking much about it. So, I deleted it.

Then the loading time got long, and that’s when I took a closer look at the detailed list. There were multiple ‘Contents’ folders, each quite large. But the paths were strange. I started seeing names of other apps that I wasn’t trying to delete. I quickly force-quit PearCleaner, but by then, the Trash was already filled with numerous Contents folders, each with numbers appended to the names.

I tried to find a way to recover them, but at least on the surface, I couldn’t find one. And restoring them one by one felt far too tedious.

I opened the apps one by one. They wouldn’t launch because they were broken. After thinking it over a bit, I decided to just reset my iMac. Luckily, I had already been considering either resetting it or buying a new Mac, or this situation would have been much more troublesome.

When using PearCleaner to delete apps, always check the details carefully.

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What apps, extensions & settings do you install/configure on a brand new Mac?

As the noscript says… you get a clean shiny new Mac/ MacBook… what do you do for initial setup?

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Tessera Designer - Create beautiful, seamless patterns

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Which Mac apps would you love to get but find too expensive?

Just curious. Most of the discussions around the sub is around free or best value for money apps.

But which ones do you have or want to get but are too pricey?

E.g if money is not an object - what would you recommend?

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