A quick way to find & activate given window

[imcYaro]

Bugn is my daily driver, which saved me a ton of time over the last few years. It's just a great tool The one thing that I'm struggling to figure out is how to quickly find and activate the window I know the title of

• I usually work on two monitors (three from time to time), having 10 views on each of them
• I like to move some application from one view to the other quite dynamically, so that they are adjusted to current needs (this is now even more visible during remote work with all those screen shares and so)
• Then I need to find an app that's somewhere there... I know I have it open... So I start to cycle through all of the views on all of the monitors I have. The corner case is to find it on the 30th view... Quite irritating, right?

Is there any magic trick to find it with some menu, hotkey, script, anything I could use? It would be great if there's a menu with listed windows per monitor/view and pick the one I'd like to jump straight to

Can anyone help, please?

[janvanveldhuizen]

Wouldn't it be way better to close applications you don't actively use? That avoids the need of so many views. Just have the windows open in which you are working, and close the others. That gives a better overview and more peace in your mind. In my experience, when I have ten windows open, then this is a sign that I am working unstructured, and that I have to stop and first decide what I want to focus on. The other windows will then be closed.

[imcYaro]

Thanks Jan for stressing how keeping a focus is important to increase our productivity. I totally agree with you!

Unfortunately, my work requires quite a lot of context switching, and bugn helps me a lot to keep the focus on the apps I need just now, and not more.

The thing is that during my workday I need to join a meeting after a meeting, with different sets of apps that need to be ready in no time. And check the communication (Outlook, Teams, etc) in breaks between them. The bugn feature of managing views is really useful in that case, and I appreciate it a lot (so for example the listed apps occupant one view, I press win-1 and voila... it's all ready).

I can think of limiting the number of views to let's say 5, but still, it would be great to see a way to find a given window faster.

[joten]

Currently, there is no feature like this (menu with listed windows per monitor/view). But I excavated a script from 2011, which did something similar and which I uploaded to tools/hul.ahk. But it shows all windows, which can be found, in a flat list, and you might want to change the Main_restore function to the following:

Main_restore() {
	Global Gui_wnds
	
	GuiControlGet, wnd, , Gui_wnds
	If wnd {
		wndId := SubStr(wnd, 1, InStr(wnd, ": ") - 1)
		WinActivate, ahk_id %wndId%
	} Else
		GuiControl, Focus, Gui_wnds
}

-- This might be a starting point.