The cursor is one of the most looked at objects on the desktop. I usually think it’s icons or the Start menu but your cursor is the digital representation of where your eyes are going.

Which means that when you change your cursor from the default white arrow, you better like the new option as that’s what you are going to be looking at nearly all day while using your device. And for me, that’s a tough thing to change.

CursorFX makes it easy and there are tons of different configurable styles but as someone who has run WindowBlinds, StartX, and various versions of Fences for decades, I haven’t taken the jump to try and change the cursor for an extended period of time. Why? I’m not fully sure and it’s probably something I should try at some point.

It could be that the simple and non-distracting nature of the basic cursor helps keep me focused but I am curious for those that do change their cursor – what’s your current setup look like?

In the world of AI, connecting AI up to your cursor seems a bit, extreme. Not saying that I would want to or that we should enable that functionality but if AI can see what’s on your screen already, having a smart cursor does make me wonder what that type of experience would look like for the daily workflow.

Imagine if your cursor could adapt to the task at hand, offering contextual suggestions or shortcuts based on what you're working on. For instance, it could highlight relevant tools when editing photos or suggest formatting options while writing documents but typically, I find this more distracting than value-add.

Analog computing, or whatever we will call computing in the pre-AI era, is still evolving to whatever the desktop-of-tomorrow will be like and the cursor isn’t going away anytime soon. I got a little off tangent from simply customizing but the cursor hasn’t seen any big evolution in decades but maybe more change is on the horizon.