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How to drop a file onto a background tab

Published by BetterStage · Instructions for our macOS app; detailed feature reference is linked below.

Steps

  1. 1

    Drag a file from Finder over an unselected tab and hold until that tab activates.

  2. 2

    Drop onto the now-front window.

More detail: /docs/tabstack

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