Hocus Focus (formerly Houdini) For Mac

When working on our Macs, most of us prefer to keep our workspace as clean and as tidy as possible, and, thus, one of the first steps towards doing just that is to close or hide unnecessary apps or windows.

Hocus Focus is a small OS X menu bar based application that has the potential to improve your focus and workflow by automatically hiding application windows after certain periods of inactivity.

Hocus Focus enables you to make them hide once you have selected other applications or to disable the hiding process entirely.

The fact that Hocus Focus was built with orderliness and neatness in mind, becomes evident once you access its status bar menu, which will display a list of all opened application at the current time.

By hovering with the cursor over each application’s entry, an adjustment bar will appear to help you effortlessly set the exact period of time after which the app will be automatically hidden, from 0 to a maximum of 10 minutes, in chunks of 15 seconds.

If the adjustment time periods of 15 seconds seem to rigid, you can click the arrow on each app entry's right side, and manually adjust the exact amount of time after which Hocus Focus will hide the app.

What’s more, Hocus Focus comes with support for profiles, therefore, it makes it easy for you to make the app work in your favor in almost all situations, regardless of the current location of your Mac.

Taking into account all that’s been said above, Hocus Focus is a great little app that will keep your Mac’s screen tidy and in tip-top shape by automatically hiding unused applications.