Warpstead

Warpstead

Building a spatial workspace for Windows

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I'm building Warpstead, a spatial workspace and window manager for Windows. It started with something small: a project is never one thing. It's a reference image, three documents, a terminal and two browser tabs you keep going back to — and the desktop flattens all of it into a row of identical buttons. Every time you switch away, you rebuild the arrangement from memory. So I made a canvas where the real, running windows sit where you put them, next to the files and notes that belong with them. Close it at six, open it at nine, and the shape of the work is still there. Windows only, built in Rust, and everything runs on your own machine. Launching 8 October.

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7d ago

What does a project look like on your desktop?

I'm building a spatial workspace for Windows. It started from a small annoyance: I kept losing the shape of whatever I was working on.

A project, for me, is a reference image, three documents, a terminal, two browser tabs I keep going back to and a note with the one thing I must not forget. On the desktop all of it turns into a row of identical taskbar buttons, and every time I switch away I rebuild the arrangement from memory.

So I made a canvas where real windows stay where you put them. They're the live apps, not screenshots, sitting next to files and notes and arranged the way you think about the work. Close it at six, open it at nine, and the layout is still there.

How many windows do you have open right now?

Not rhetorical! Actually count them.

I'll go first: 14. I couldn't tell you what six of them are without clicking.

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