Monocle for macOS


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My buddy Paul1 sent me a link to this macOS app a few weeks ago, but I didn’t have a use case for it until yesterday.

I was reading a few different documents relating to a machine learning contract I just started, and I was getting overwhelmed by the mountains of text on my screen.

Monocle is a very simple utility for macOS that blurs out every app window that is not in the foreground. If you want to see everything, you can shake your mouse back and forth2. If you want it blurred again, you do the same shake gesture.

It’s the best $9 I’ve spent on software in years.

  1. Latest blog post was over a year ago?! Come on man, share some of those dope woodworking projects you’ve been working on! 😅 ↩

  2. Which also triggers one of my favorite macOS features: making your mouse cursor super huge so you can find it on your screen. ↩

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