Saving "Workspaces" on OS X....

September 22, 2014 7:16 PM

I often have a group of files open that I'm working on as part of a project: maybe a Word doc, an Excel spreadsheet and a couple of others. Does anyone know an app that will let me "save" those as a group, and then open them all again with the same window positions? I sometimes use window managers but haven't come across something that will open the files as well.
posted by 43rdAnd9th to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

The nerdy industrial-strength option is slate a free application that does resizing, launching, and lots more.
posted by tmcw at 7:35 PM on September 22, 2014 [1 favorite]

Save them all in a folder and use a window manager like Moom to arrange the windows. You can create multiple layouts that you can recall with your own keyboard shortcut.
posted by Mac-Expert at 12:03 AM on September 23, 2014

One very simple way to do this is to create aliases to all the documents, and folders too if you want, and store those in a folder on your desktop or wherever is convenient. When you want to open your workspace you just select all of them (Command+A) and then Command+down arrow to open them. The apps will launch as required, the Finder windows will open and the documents will all be exactly where they were when you last used them.
posted by mewsic at 5:28 AM on September 23, 2014

You don't say which version of OSX you're using, but would OSX's built-in Spaces function do what you want?
posted by Thorzdad at 8:34 AM on September 23, 2014