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NothingHere
A MacOS panic button where one key press cleans your screen
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A MacOS panic button where one key press cleans your screen
235 followers
NothingHere is a macOS panic button. One hotkey, three things happen at once: 1. All windows disappear — every app gets hidden instantly 2. All sound goes silent — music, videos, everything mutes 3. A cover document opens — your pre-configured "real work" file Your screen goes from "definitely not working" to "hard at work" in milliseconds. Guard Mode sits in your menu bar — when armed, you're always one key press from a clean screen. Free, open source, ~5.9 MB. macOS 15.0+.
NothingHere
@solee Muscle memory saves you here. One hotkey to hide windows, mute audio, and open a boring document is the right bundle, and Guard Mode in the&�enu bar makes it feel always ready. A full-screen and Spaces sanity check would make it trustworthy on multi-monitor setups.
Love how simple and practical this is 😄
Curious — since it’s hiding all active windows and muting everything instantly, are there any edge cases where certain apps (like screen recordings or notifications) might still leak through?
Feels like those small things could break the illusion in real scenarios
Macky
Lol I need this so my boss doesn't see me endlessly doomscrolling on X
A very simple concept that offers an answer to a very old problem. I might not necessarily be the target group for this, but this still made me think of the many times I was caught red-handed doing something unrelated to work/study.
The genius of this lies in its simplicity, which is very hard to reach. (Might need to get used to this particular hotkey, but it will soon be a part of our muscle memory.)
Incredible light app/widget. I hope to put it to good use in the near future.
P.S. : I honestly think one additional update to this could be the option to enable a particular software application to boot up instead of a particular document. I believe there is scope to extend this app's use case towards general productivity by offering a trigger to instantly switch back to high priority tasks.
Tessl
Ah, you've triggered some ancient memories here. We used to call these "Boss key" to hide whatever game you're playing when the manager walks into the office.
Obviously, it's less needed these days with remote working from home, a multi-tasking OS that can change apps quickly, we can all very easily switch away from "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards" - or whatever other important non-work activity we're hiding.
Might be better making it look like a terminal running Claude or Copilot these days though :)
Are there still workplaces that actually justify this? 😅
Ammersive
So bascially command + F3 on mac with a document open behind your browser?