You should be using FancyZones, Microsoft’s killer multitasking app

Every so often, a tool comes along that changes how you work and makes you wish you’d started using it sooner. For me, that tool is FancyZones, which is technically a feature of Microsoft’s broader PowerToys app for Windows enthusiasts.

FancyZones lets you drag and drop windows into customizable split-screen views so you can multitask more effectively. Just hold down Shift while dragging a window, and you can instantly snap the window to a predefined portion of the screen.

While FancyZones has been around since 2019, when Microsoft first revived the , I initially dismissed it as too burdensome to set