How best to organise dock?

[lloydsj]

Hi,

I'm new to osx and over the last few months have installed lots of apps. My dock has become very cluttered.

I've had a look through the mac desktop thread and can see a lot of you have stacks for your apps. I've dragged my applications folder onto the dock to create a stack and removed a lot of the icons from the main dock. However I have now got the same problem in my stack.... i.e. its got lots of icons and is cluttered. How can i organise this?

Can i create folders inside my applications folder and drag the apps around into those? OR do i need to create a folder elsewhere and then just create shortcuts to the apps etc.

What i'm after really is a few folders called things like 'web', 'photography', 'office' etc and then just have the apps organised in those with shortcuts on my dock to the folders.

If there's a better way to keep my apps organised please let me know too.

Cheers

 

[Feek]

I've not bothered organising my Applications folder, it pops out as a grid and I don't feel the need to organise it any further than that.

 

[smogsy]

http://www.mactips.org/archives/2008/08/22/video-tip-organize-your-dock-with-applications-stacks/ all u need watch the vid

 

[Le Samourai]

http://www.mactips.org/archives/2008/08/22/video-tip-organize-your-dock-with-applications-stacks/ all u need watch the vid

Nice, straightforward tip there!

The guy on the vid sounds like the nervous carsalesman (Jack Lemmon stylee) from The Simpsons.

Made me chuckle anyway!

 

[Cybertronic]

The way I organise my Applications folder is leaving/installing all official Apple applications in index of the Applications folder. All third party applications goes inside a folder called Extras located in the Applications folder. Both folders have their own stacks on the dock which as a result provides far less clutter in both dock and Applications folder

You can install applications anywhere however some applications, for example MAMP requires to be installed in the index of the Applications folder.

 

[bigredshark]

sod the dock, just use spotlight for opening apps...

 

[LPL]

Eugh stacks

I just put in the dock what I use most often

 

[Cybertronic]

Another thing to add to my post, it's best if you put your most frequently used applications on the dock and all the other applications in stacks

 

[ilikedthecore]

I mainly use Spotlight as an app launcher now and have just frequently used/most useful apps in the dock then have the Apps folder as a stack.

Be careful moving apps like Apple ones etc. as they may not update correctly if moved to a different place.

 

[lloydsj]

Cheers thats great. I'm going to do a mixture of the video tip and using spotlight for the apps i dont use often (have stacks for).

 

[Bod]

Quicksilver, Quicksilver, Quicksilver

I have common apps I use daily on the dock, and the rest in the applications folder (displayed as a popout grid as an icon on the dock)

 

[Doug]

sod the dock, just use spotlight for opening apps...

+1

Quicksilver, Quicksilver, Quicksilver

Quicksilver does too much, I found myself exploring every crazy and useful thing I could do with it... but, I really wanted something nice and simple, and having spotlight setup to only search apps is stupidly simple

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I have the icons that I use daily in categories;

Web ¦ Music ¦ Video ¦ File Transfer ¦ Work

I don't use Firefox anymore, though

 

[LordSplodge]

I use QuickSilver for application launching but Spotlight does a great job too.

I keep only the few regular apps in the dock (mostly as that is how the wife launches apps)

 

[hyper_piper45]

sod the dock, just use spotlight for opening apps...

Thats how i roll!

 

[jonhuz]

The only way:

 

[skiba]

All about spotlight for me. Apple key + Space, app name, off we go.