Ho w to Customize your workspace with Moom

Drag to snap

In Moom’s Mouse preferences, click Snap to Edge and Corners and ensure the checkbox is filled. Drag a Finder window to a screen edge or corner and it’ll be resized to that half/quarter screen. Drag it away and it reverts.

Configure Zoom

Click Zoom Button Controls in the Mouse preferences tab. Ensure ‘Pop up controls’ is ticked. Turn on the full‑screen grid and decide how many divisions you’d like the screen broken up into horizontally and vertically.

Use the Zoom

Place the pointer over a window’s green (Zoom) button and use the icons to snap the window to depicted screen areas. Alternatively, click in the dotted area, then click and drag across your desktop to set the window’s new position.

Keyboard trigger

In Moom’s Keyboard preferences, click inside the Trigger field and press a memorable key combination that doesn’t clash with others on your system. Ctrl+F6 may be a good option. Add more modifier keys to your combo if necessary.

Move a window

Open a Finder window and test your shortcut. When the Moom logo appears, use the arrow keys to move your window around within the confines of your display. Use Cmd and the arrow keys to snap the window like in step 1.

Keyboard settings

Back in Moom’s Keyboard preferences, examine the other menus and options on offer. You can use shortcuts to quickly center a window, maximize its dimensions on the screen, or revert to its original dimensions.

Use custom controls

You can speed up keyboard-based window management even more by assigning window actions to key combos of your choosing. Start doing this in the Custom tab. Select and delete the demo actions, and click + to make a new one.

Set up an action

The boxes at the bottom right determine the size of the grid you’ll be working with. Adjust that if you like, but 6x4 is a decent starting point. Drag a rectangle to color in the left-hand side of the grid.

Define a shortcut

Click inside the shortcut field (which defaults to None) and press Ctrl+Alt+Cmd+Left Arrow. Now open a Finder window and try out your shortcut. The window should instantly snap to the left-hand side of the screen.

Build a system

Add more actions, and design a logical shortcut system for snapping windows to various areas. In further actions, explore other menu options, for example to center or revert a window using a keyboard shortcut.

Save snapshots

If you use two apps side-by-side, set their windows so they fill halves of the screen. Then create an Arrange Windows action in Moom. When its shortcut is triggered, the apps (if open) will be positioned as per the snapshot.

Use the menu bar

In Moom’s General preferences, set the app to run as a menu bar icon. You can then access all your custom setups from the menu bar — or just get a handy reminder regarding your defined keyboard shortcuts.