Contexts

contexts

A radically simpler and faster window switcher for the Mac: switch by search, Command-Tab, a sidebar or gestures.

Detected by com.contextsformac.Contexts | macOS |contexts.co

Sync it contexts.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

Contexts in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· ~/Library/Preferences/com.contextsformac.Contexts.plist Sync

· ~/Library/Application Support/.com.contextsformac.Contexts.plist Never synced

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/contexts.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "contexts"

name = "Contexts"

homepage = "https://contexts.co"

description = "A radically simpler and faster window switcher for the Mac: switch by search, Command-Tab, a sidebar or gestures."

# Contexts ships no command-line tool; the bundle identifier is what a consumer

# sees when the user runs it.

detect = ["com.contextsformac.Contexts"]

platforms = ["macos"]

# Bundle identifier com.contextsformac.Contexts: the Homebrew cask quits that

# identifier and its `zap trash:` list names

# ~/Library/Preferences/com.contextsformac.Contexts.plist alongside

# ~/Library/Application Support/com.contextsformac.Contexts,

# ~/Library/Application Support/.com.contextsformac.Contexts.plist,

# ~/Library/Caches/com.contextsformac.Contexts and ~/Library/Logs/Contexts

# (Casks/c/contexts.rb).

# The preferences domain is where a Cocoa app of this shape keeps what the user

# set: which switching panels are on, the keys they are bound to, the sidebar

# side, whether to include minimised and hidden windows.

paths = ["[preferences]/com.contextsformac.Contexts.plist"]

# ~/Library/Application Support/com.contextsformac.Contexts is in the cask's zap

# list too, but nothing published says what is in it, and Caches and Logs have

# their own entries there, so it is neither listed nor excluded — an unexamined

# directory is not something to assert about either way.

exclude = []

# ~/Library/Application Support/.com.contextsformac.Contexts.plist is the odd

# one out: a dot-prefixed plist named after the bundle identifier, kept outside

# the preferences domain and outside the app's own support directory. Contexts

# is paid software, and that is the shape of a licence record rather than of a

# setting. It is classified as a credential rather than synced as content;

# over-classifying costs a re-entered licence key, under-classifying publishes

# one.

secret = ["[appData]/.com.contextsformac.Contexts.plist"]

# No machine_lines: the panels, gestures and key bindings are what a user wants

# on their other Mac. plists also have no rule syntax here — format is toml,

# yaml or json — so a per-key carve-out could not be written even where one was

# wanted.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/contexts. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these keeps the credential file out.