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Remember where windows go

Remember a position for one app. MaxTo moves its new windows there for you, and puts strays back when you recall them.

Takes 5 minutesYou need MaxTo installed, any displaySteps 5
क्षमस्व, या पृष्ठावरील काही मजकूर अद्याप मराठीमध्ये उपलब्ध नाही.
You'll end up with

MaxTo remembering where TextEdit windows belong — every new TextEdit window moved there automatically, the moment it opens, and any window that wandered off put back from the menu bar.

In Snap your first window you moved a window once. This time you’ll teach MaxTo where an app belongs. We’ll use TextEdit, because every Mac has it and ⌘N opens a fresh window — any app works the same way.

Open the resize grid

Open TextEdit and create a new document, then press ⌃⌥⌘Space.

Check. The grid opens over TextEdit's display. If it didn't, click the TextEdit window first so it has focus, and press the shortcut again.

Hold ⇧ and drag

Hold ⇧ (Shift), then drag across the grid to outline where TextEdit windows should live — the left two-thirds of the screen, say.

Check. While ⇧ is down, the card below the grid reads "This position will be remembered for the app." in orange. Orange is MaxTo telling you this drag does more than a normal snap.

Release to remember

Release the mouse, then release ⇧. Two things happen at once: the window snaps to the region you drew, and MaxTo remembers that position for TextEdit.

Check. A message near the bottom of the screen confirms it — "TextEdit windows will open here" — with an **Undo** button in case you didn't mean it. Leave it alone; we want the remembered position.

Watch MaxTo move it

Press ⌘N in TextEdit to open another window.

Check. The new window doesn't stay wherever TextEdit felt like putting it — MaxTo moves it straight to the remembered position. It does this once, when the window first appears; if you drag it somewhere else afterwards, it stays where you put it.

Recall it

Drag one of the TextEdit windows somewhere else, as if it had wandered off. Then click the MaxTo icon in the menu bar and choose Recall All Windows.

Check. Every TextEdit window goes straight back to the remembered position, and so does every other window with a remembered position. That's a recall: the remembered position applied when you ask for it, not just when a window opens.

Recall All Windows and its single-window sibling, Recall Window Position, also have keyboard shortcuts: ⌃⌥⌘A and ⌃⌥⌘W. Customize your shortcuts shows how to change them.

Orange means remember, green means preset The sibling gesture — holding ⌥ — saves a preset instead and shows its hint in green. The hint always shows what releasing the mouse will do.