Spaceflow - IntelliJ IDEA Plugin - by momomo

https://spaceflow.io.momomo.com Virtual desktops, but for the inside of the IDE Boost your productivity | Protect your flow | Get back into the zone Save and restore the editor layout of each task you work on, with its splitters, tabs and tool windows, and switch between them by shortcut. Five keyboard driven tools in one install, for people who work across many files in a large codebase or a monorepo. Why Do you remember how Firefox changed everything with the novice invention of something as simple as tabs in 2003? Real work is done in dozens of files, split and arranged the way we want. Then a bug arrives, you tear it all down, and rebuilding it afterwards is a task of its own. If you move between different areas of a large codebase every day, you already know the cost. Spaces Instant workspace snapshots A Space keeps a whole working context and hands it back exactly as you left it. It saves automatically and switches by shortcut. It remembers: Splitters, their layout, the editors and their order Tool windows, with the Project tree state and scroll position Which splitter and tool window had focus Run and Debug configurations Breakpoints, watches and bookmarks Keep one for backend, one for frontend, one for scripts and one for the bug that just arrived. Slide Fly across the IDE Four arrow keys and a modifier move focus by direction, through every splitter and straight into the tool window on that side. There is no shortcut per tool window to remember. Splitters Create layouts at speed Send a tab in any direction, and a splitter is created where there is none Swap two whole splitters Resize splitters and tool windows from the keyboard Tabs A pin that holds The close key stops closing the tabs you pinned on purpose. Closing skips a pinned tab and moves to the next one, and one pinned tab per splitter keeps the layout standing. Illuminate See clearly what is focused Paints the focused editor, tool window and caret row in colors you choose, so a keystroke never lands in the pane you were not looking at. Scheme colors are read first and put back afterwards. Why it matters It pays the first time you are interrupted, and on a large codebase it pays every hour. More so now that working with AI tools means holding several tasks open at once. Works in every IDE Spaceflow works on the editor itself, not on a language, so it runs in every IntelliJ based IDE from 2025.3 onwards. Try it There is a 30 day free trial. Nearly every shortcut can be bound right on the plugin settings page, so setting up takes minutes. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:40 Slide 01:19 Illuminate 01:49 Move tabs 02:19 Resize and float 02:35 Swap splitters 03:35 Create layout 04:49 Bug arrives 05:39 Restore layout 06:01 Parallel universe 06:42 Settings