Drawers – macOS has apps and files, but no projects
Hi HN, Wanted to share Drawers, an app my friend Gonzalo and I (Kieran) have been working on to combat distraction and get people in the flow state. Drawers creates project-scoped workspaces on your Mac, complete with project-specific docks that can contain chats, files, and websites, in addition to apps. We made Drawers because we were concerned about how distracted we were getting when trying to work on the computer. We believe that many productivity solutions (blocklists, pomodoro) treat distraction as a willpower problem, when it is really a structural problem with modern UIs. Projects…
Drawers – macOS has apps and files, but no projects launched on May 6, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,742 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
A macOS interface layer that gives every project its own space. Switch projects, switch worlds. Close the rest.
Drawers gives every project its own dock, its own space, and its own windows. Switch projects, switch worlds. Designed for maximum flow state. A drawer is its own menu bar identity, its own dock, its own space. Pull open a drawer and all the project context together with no noise. Don't shortcut to Figma — shortcut to the one Figma file that matters. A single channel instead of all of Slack. Three files instead of your whole Documents folder. Searching for resources invites distraction. Drawers keeps what you need right at your fingertips. Need Chrome for three projects? In normal macOS, clicking Chrome from a new Space yanks you back to where it was already open — one window, all your tabs…from drawers.computer
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN, Wanted to share Drawers, an app my friend Gonzalo and I (Kieran) have been working on to combat distraction and get people in the flow state. Drawers creates project-scoped workspaces on your Mac, complete with project-specific docks that can contain chats, files, and websites, in addition to apps. We made…
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