animiste
1.3.4

Virtual Display — acting without taking over

For most of Numa's life, acting on your behalf meant borrowing your hands — moving your real cursor, clicking your real windows while you waited. It worked, but it never felt right. Watching something move your mouse is uncanny in exactly the wrong way.

Virtual Display is how we stopped doing that. Numa now runs an app in a held-aside space — present to the system, hidden from you — captures it live, and acts on it directly, click by click, without touching your cursor or your desktop. You keep working. Numa works beside you, not through you.

Why it matters

  • Your cursor stays yours. Numa never moves it to do its job.
  • It works on apps that resisted every earlier approach — including other Electron apps.
  • Because the app is held aside rather than foregrounded, Numa can tend several at once without a flickering scramble of windows.

It is the least visible thing we have built and, quietly, the one that changed how Numa feels most.