Edge takeover
Bind a dongle to any usable edge on any Mac display. Cross it and TargetFlow grabs the controls. Shared display edges are handled because monitors love making geometry everyone's problem.
TargetFlow + TargetDongle · macOS input switcher · 0.1 beta
one keyboard.
every machine.
Push your pointer through a screen edge and your Mac's keyboard and mouse take over another computer. Push back and you're home.
The target computer gets an ordinary USB keyboard and mouse. It needs no app, network, Bluetooth, or account. We somehow resisted all four. Your Mac still uses Bluetooth to talk to TargetDongle, because physics remains stubbornly employed.
// your desk is already complicated enough
cross the line.
THE TARGET COMPUTER KNOWS NOTHING
Exactly the way we like it.
HOW THE TRICK WORKS
TargetFlow watches the screen edges you choose. Cross one and it sends your keyboard, mouse, scroll wheel, and media keys over Bluetooth LE to a TargetDongle.
The dongle plugs into the other computer and speaks plain USB HID. Windows, Linux, another Mac, a locked-down work machine—if it accepts a USB keyboard and mouse, it gets the input.
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what it does.
More than one target
Connect multiple dongles, name them, color-code them, tune pointer speed, and assign each to a different edge. Click Identify if “which tiny board is this?” becomes a real question.
Profiles & hooks
Keep separate edge layouts for work, gaming, or whatever your rack of suspicious computers is doing. Profiles can run Mac shell hooks and send a key chord when activated.
Clipboard typing
Control-Option-Command-V types your Mac clipboard into the active target. It is not clipboard sync. It is a keyboard typing very quickly while the network remains gloriously uninvolved.
Computers optional
Game consoles, smart TVs, streaming boxes—anything that supports a USB keyboard and mouse can be a target. Computers do not have a monopoly on needing buttons pushed.
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look around.
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things to know.
Bring a dongle
TargetFlow requires TargetDongle hardware: a Raspberry Pi Pico W or Pico 2 W plugged into each computer you want to control. The ready-to-flash firmware is included in the download.
macOS asks questions
TargetFlow needs Accessibility permission and may need Input Monitoring so it can capture your keyboard and mouse. It lives in the menu bar and skips the Dock, where it would only loiter.
No automatic updates yet
Version 0.1 beta does not update itself. Check back here for new builds, like it is 2004 and the web is still fun.