What if you could switch to any window with two or three keystrokes? Now you can.

Contexts lets you switch to windows with search. Press Control-Space (or whichever keyboard shortcut you prefer) to open the Search window. Type a few characters from an app name or window title to filter the list. Press Return to switch to the selected item.

And in Contexts 3 we have taken search to a new level. Our goals were simple but ambitious: You should need as few keystrokes as possible — ideally just two for your frequently used windows; And it should be as deterministic as possible — so you can switch without even looking at the results most of the time. Here is how it works:

Matches non-consecutive characters. You can type characters which are anywhere in the app name or window title. If an app has multiple windows open, type a couple of characters from the app name and a couple from the window title.

You can type characters which are anywhere in the app name or window title. If an app has multiple windows open, type a couple of characters from the app name and a couple from the window title. Prioritizes acronym matches. Character matches at start of the app name and start of any words in the window title get a higher score. Most of the time typing the acronym of an item’s title is sufficient to make it the first result.

Character matches at start of the app name and start of any words in the window title get a higher score. Most of the time typing the acronym of an item’s title is sufficient to make it the first result. Creates search shortcuts. Once you type a search query and select a window (with up or down keys if necessary), typing the same query later will cause that window to be the first result. E.g. type “s”, select Safari window from results and from then on that window will always be the first result for “s”.

Fast Search. If you want to go even faster, enable Fast Search, hold down the Fn key (or whichever modifier key you prefer1) and type a one or two character query (or a longer one if you want to). The Search window will appear with the results. Just release Fn and the selected item will come to the front. Combine this with search shortcuts and you can switch to Safari with Fn-s, Notes with Fn-n, Messages with Fn-me and so on. In two or three keystrokes, that is.