🎨 Design
Rectangle for Designers: A Figma and Sketch Window Workflow That Holds
A working window layout for Mac designers: canvas on two thirds, brief on the right third, reference pinned to a corner quarter. Built …
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The complete guide library
Layouts by profession, a full shortcut reference, display setups, honest comparisons and a troubleshooting order that actually finds the cause.
🎯 Productivity
Deep Work on a Mac: Focus Layouts You Can Enter and Leave in One Keystroke
Focus is a layout problem before it is a discipline problem. How to build single-window deep work modes on macOS and return to your ful…
📚 Students
Rectangle for Students: Study, Note-Taking and Exam Layouts on macOS
Lecture slides, a notes app, a PDF and six browser tabs. Practical macOS window layouts for studying, writing essays and revising, usin…
⚡ Power user
Rectangle with Alfred and Raycast: Running a Mac Without the Mouse
Combine a launcher with a window manager and macOS becomes fully keyboard-driven: apps launch, windows snap and workflows fire without …
🔬 Advanced
Window Cycling, Drag Zones and the Rectangle Settings Most People Never Open
Beyond halves and quarters: cycling through sizes on repeated keypresses, snap areas, gaps, todo mode and the preferences that change h…
📈 Finance
Rectangle for Traders and Analysts: Multi-Window Layouts for Market Work
Charts, order entry, news and a model, all visible at once. Window layouts for trading and financial analysis on macOS, plus what to do…
🎬 Video
Rectangle for Video Editors: Timeline, Preview and Reference Without the Shuffle
Window layouts for Final Cut, Premiere and DaVinci Resolve on macOS: reference beside preview, notes beside the timeline, and a fast wa…
🔧 Troubleshooting
Rectangle Not Working on Mac? A Diagnostic Order That Actually Finds the Cause
Shortcuts stopped responding after a macOS update? Work through permissions, conflicts, login items and per-app quirks in the order tha…
⌨️ Reference
The Complete Rectangle Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet for macOS
Every default Rectangle shortcut in one place — halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, displays and restore — plus a six-shortcut core worth…
💻 Development
Rectangle for Developers: Editor, Terminal and Browser in a Layout That Stops Moving
Three-window development layouts for macOS, plus the arrangements that work best for debugging, code review, pair programming and readi…
🖥️ Displays
Ultrawide Monitor Layouts on macOS: Making 34 Inches Actually Useful
An ultrawide is only an upgrade if you divide it. Column layouts, thirds, sixths and the arrangements that work best on 34-inch and 49-…
🔌 Displays
Multi-Monitor MacBook Setups: Surviving the Dock and Undock Cycle
Windows scatter every time you disconnect. How to move windows between displays with the keyboard and rebuild a full layout in about te…
⚖️ Comparison
Rectangle vs Magnet vs Moom: Choosing a Mac Window Manager in 2026
An honest comparison of the main macOS window managers — what each does well, where they differ, and which type of user each one actual…
🧩 Comparison
Built-In macOS Window Tiling vs a Dedicated Window Manager
macOS now tiles windows natively. Where the built-in feature is genuinely sufficient, where it runs out, and what a dedicated tool adds…
🖼️ Desktop
Wallpapers and Window Layouts: Designing a Desktop You Can Actually Read
How wallpaper choice interacts with tiled windows, gaps and menu bar legibility — and how to build a desktop that looks good without co…
✍️ Writing
Rectangle for Writers: Layouts for Research, Drafting and Editing
Different stages of writing want different screens. Layouts for gathering sources, drafting without distraction, revising against feedb…
🗂️ Productivity
Spaces, Mission Control and Window Layouts: A Context-Switching System
Combine macOS Spaces with per-Space window layouts and context switching becomes a single gesture instead of a five-minute rebuild.…
🚀 Getting started
Installing and Setting Up Rectangle: Permissions, Privacy and a Sane First Configuration
A ten-minute setup: install, grant Accessibility permission, understand exactly what that permission allows, and configure a first week…