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New comment by wwwkieran in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

wwwkieran — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:01:40 +0000

Thanks! Would love to hear your feedback!! You can email us at hello [at] drawers.computer

New comment by wwwkieran in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

wwwkieran — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:55:41 +0000

Yep! Each Drawer (project) has its own folder path. We have integrated apps like Figma, WhatsApp, Messages, and Slack to keep them focused on one project.

Would love to hear what you think we should add next!

New comment by wwwkieran in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

wwwkieran — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:32:21 +0000

We're working on Drawers (https://drawers.computer), a macOS app to give each of your projects its own dock, space, and windows.

We integrate with macOS spaces to switch out a project-specific dock on each space, containing only the resources you need for that project. We made it possible to add granular resources instead of full apps to the dock (think specific slack channels instead of the whole slack app), to keep the dock hyper focused on what you need.

We built this to stay focused while working on the computer, and we thought that the native interface mixed all our projects together, causing us to get distracted.

Looking for beta testers! Free download from https://drawers.computer

Show HN: Drawers – macOS has apps and files, but no projects

wwwkieran — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:44:08 +0000

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 live across multiple apps, and each app is used for multiple projects. Getting to work requires collecting a specific set of resources across multiple applications, and staying focused requires ignoring all the noise from other projects within shared applications.

Drawers addresses this by rearranging the UI around projects. Each project gets its own Drawer, with a project-specific dock containing only the resources for that project. Start working on a project and distractions from other projects will be less accessible, while the resources for the current project are already laid out for you.

Drawers is deliberately opinionated, and we are curious to see if this vision resonates with people.

Would love to hear feedback if you try it out!

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