New Action: Move Window to Previous Monitor

Currently I use the action "Move Window to Next Monitor" constantly, while working with 3 or more monitors. Sometimes I'd just like to move a window back to where it was previously. Move Window to Previous Monitor.

+1 on this. Currently you can work around this by using another app like Rectangle which has shortcut to move window to previous monitor then use BTT to trigger the Rectangle shortcut

Unfortunately BTT currently doesn't keep track on which monitor a window was, thus this is more complex than it might sound like.

However for many display setups you can achieve equivalent behavior by using the "Custom Move & Resize" action. It allows you to move a window e.g. to the left or to the right monitor. E.g. this would center the window on the display left of the current one:

You can combine that with the "Cycle through multiple actions" meta action to quickly cycle through multiple monitors.

It's not clear to me whether the request meant "Previous" as in the monitor where the app was before, or "Previous" as in the opposite of "Next", something like the monitor to the left or above the current monitor.

I'm in favor of an action implementing the latter, just because in a 3 monitor setup it's kind of a pain to do "Next" twice to get it one monitor to the left (and this becomes even more of a pain when swapping between a three monitor setup and a two monitor setup).

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Opposite of 'next' - as 'next' conveys there is an order by which a monitor is chosen for a window to be moved to, I envision that 'previous' would choose a monitor in the reverse of that order.

this you can do with the custom move/resize action like shown in the screenshot