I stopped using my Magic Trackpad

I bought my Magic Trackpad for the gestures. Three-finger swipes between Spaces, Mission Control, the whole choreography of moving between projects with my hand instead of my keyboard. For years it sat right next to my keyboard, and I used it constantly.

Last week I went to clean my desk and realized I hadn't touched it in days.

What actually happened

The trackpad was solving a problem I no longer have. Its main job was navigation: get me from this project to that one, surface the window I'm looking for, swipe over to the right Space. That's exactly the job Scopo took over.

Now the flow lives entirely in my keyboard. Cmd+Tab gives me the windows in my current project. Hold it and I can jump to any window in any Space without lifting a finger off the home row. The deliberate, two-handed dance of swiping around Mission Control just... stopped being necessary.

I didn't decide to stop using the trackpad. I just stopped reaching for it, because the thing I reached for it to do was already done.

The part I didn't expect

What surprised me wasn't the speed. It was the quiet.

Gestures are physical. There's a small cost every time you move your hand off the keyboard, find the surface, swipe, and come back. It's tiny, but it's there, and it adds up across a day of switching contexts dozens of times. Keeping everything on the keyboard removed a layer of friction I didn't know I was paying for.

The trackpad still sits on my desk. I keep meaning to put it in a drawer. For now it's a funny little monument to a problem Scopo quietly solved.

One Space. One scope. No clutter. Apparently, one fewer gadget too.