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The Best Window Switching Strategy for Multi-Service Devs

Alex Morgan

Alex Morgan

Productivity expert and software developer. Alex has been optimizing workflows for over a decade.

7 min read
The Best Window Switching Strategy for Multi-Service Devs

Modern devs often have 3–5 services open in separate windows:

  • auth-ui in VSCode
  • payments in Terminal
  • admin-panel in Chrome
  • shared-utils in another editor window

Switching between these visually = chaos.


Assignee’s Strategy

Assignee detects separate windows of the same app (like VSCode). Use:

  • Ctrl + Tab, V, 1 → auth-ui
  • Ctrl + Tab, V, 2 → shared-utils
  • Ctrl + Tab, T → Terminal for payments
  • Ctrl + Tab, C → browser preview

Assignee auto-assigns window slots. You can reorder anytime.


Final Thought

Your microservices are modular. Your workflow should be too. Assignee gives you frictionless window-level control without config.

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