alright thanks for the info, Ive tried both and neither work, so lmk if you have a work around for these issues:
I made a new watch grid with multiple slots on my secondary monitor (where my single overflow slot currently is) and set overflow to watchgrid, which does what I want it to do in the layout sense. The problem is that I use manual intuitive mode hotkey to move my tables from overflow to my main screen playgrid layout because it then auto adjusts my template to the new size based on how many tables I have + how many are coming from overflow. When I assign "overflow to watchgrid" it kills this hotkey, so I have to manually move them over which just isnt feasible. Id rather just let overflow stack into 1 slot like it currently does.
So I tried using the waiting slot by checking "use watchgrid as waiting slots" but this feature doesnt seem to work because new tables still default to the overflow location. I changed new table location to waiting slot but this does not fill up my main slots. it sends every single table to the waiting slot immediately. I couldnt find a way to disable overflow, but that still wouldnt solve the hotkey issue since the waiting slot is using watchgrid, and the above hotkey is still killed.
Im thinking the first solution is the easiest. It is overflow that Im wanting to sort into tiles instead of one stack, so if it sends to watchgrid then that resolves this problem. It just needs the ability to use hotkeys to move watchgrid tables into playgrid tables. I would prefer it if intuitive mode hotkey could do this, but another hotkey would work too. I dont see a hotkey in the list that can perform this task but maybe Ive missed one that does do it.
edit: checking both use watchgrid as waiting slots and overflow to watchgrid seems to override the original overflow location, but the hotkey issue is still the main hurdle for me.