Window gaps, Hyper key and typing sounds

These live in Settings › Extras.

Window gaps

A gap in points left between a snapped window and its neighbours, and between a window and the screen edge. Zero by default. The working area shrinks by the gap, then each window gives up half of it on its inner edges, so two neighbours end up exactly one gap apart rather than two.

Snap cycling

On by default. Pressing the same snap shortcut again walks the window through widths: a half becomes two thirds, then a third, then a half again. The same applies to top and bottom halves.

Cycling only continues if the window is still where the last snap left it, so moving or resizing a window by hand starts the cycle over.

Hyper key

Turns Caps Lock into a key nothing else uses, so you can bind shortcuts to it without colliding with anything.

It works by remapping Caps Lock to F18 through hidutil, the tool Apple ships for this. macOS forgets the mapping when the Mac restarts, so Cleat reapplies it at launch while the setting is on. Turning the setting off clears the mapping immediately.

Once it is on, record a shortcut anywhere that accepts one and press Caps Lock as if it were a normal key.

Typing sounds

Three soundpacks: Click, Thock and Typewriter, with a volume slider.

The sounds are synthesised at launch rather than shipped as audio files, which is why the whole app is still under 7 MB. Each pack is a tone and a burst of noise under a decay envelope, generated at six slightly different pitches so repeated keys do not sound mechanical.

This needs Accessibility, because knowing that a key went down means watching the keyboard. Cleat listens for key-down events, ignores auto-repeat so holding a key does not machine-gun, and records nothing.

Menu bar agenda

Puts your next calendar event in the menu bar with a countdown: the name, then minutes until it starts, or the time if it is more than an hour away. A meeting in progress shows a dot.

Needs Calendar access. Off by default, because the menu bar is a scarce place.

Hidden apps

Apps hidden with ⌘K are listed here with a button to bring them all back.

Screen time and breaks

Tracking which apps have your time, break reminders with their interval, length and gentle or strict style, and the button that forgets the history. All of it is described in Screen time and breaks.

Dashboard

The band of cards above the results on an empty field, and which of the four cards take part. Described in Dashboard.

Stage Manager and dictation

The Windows section has the Stage Manager switch and strip width, described in Windows. The Dictation section chooses what happens to a transcript before it is pasted, described in Dictation.

The rest of the day

With the menu bar agenda on, clicking the menu bar item lists everything still to come today, grouped into Morning, Afternoon and Evening with a count in each header. Past events are gone. Clicking an event joins its call when it has a link, or opens Calendar.