I switch between a few different “modes” on my Mac every day (work, coding, meetings, personal stuff). Each time I’d end up reopening the same apps and dragging all the windows back into the right Spaces. Super repetitive and honestly kind of annoying.

So over the past few weeks I hacked together a small open-source tool called SpacePigeon that basically remembers your whole workspace and puts everything back where it was.

Things it can do:

Save your current layout (apps + windows + Spaces)

Restore it with one click or a hotkey

Keep separate presets (like “Work”, “Coding”, “Meetings” etc.)

Handle external monitors

Example: I hit my “Work” preset and it opens all the usual apps and moves them to the right desktops automatically. Saves me a few minutes every time.

If anyone here lives in Spaces like I do, you might find it useful. Here’s the repo (MIT, free): https://github.com/louivers/spacepigeon

Totally open to feedback — still very much a work in progress.