10 Useful Things To Add To the Mac Dock

macmost.com/e-... You can add custom items to the right side of the Dock in macOS. Here are 10 examples of useful things that you can add to make it easier to access apps, files, and more.
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[@Keith72360]

I know we keep saying it, but Gary is THE BEST. He ALWAYS has stuff even us old timers do not know about the devises we have owned for years!!! Thanks again!!!!!

[@Ivan_1986]

Indeed. Not sure how Gary does this :-)

[@jasonmiller3638]

Being new to Mac, long time iPhone user, can't even tell you how much I have learned from your videos. Thank you so much for what you do.

[@battlegroundbaseball6872]

Same tor me.

[@Pyxhel]

Gary, that last bonus tip is EXACTLY the one I needed… Thanks a lot, once again !

[@petermartin1666]

When I apply your tips, they save me a second or two - dozens of times a day- every day. You save me days!!

[@cesarrivarola6409]

Quite impressive your tutorials, thank you very much!!!

[@adeshchopra]

Thanks Gary. New windows to apple converts like me find these sort of videos extremely helpful. Stay safe!

[@bobvogel9916]

Great video, as usual. I only wish I could remember 10% of these... I'd be a superuser. :-)

[@Resist4]

At first I was like, I don't need things to my already crowed dock. But now I get it, thanks!

[@bozz1954]

I have been a Mac user for over 20 years and I am astounded by the things you are telling me that I don't know. Thank you for making my Mac life so much easier.

[@cjc363636]

Gary, you sir are the best, just-the-facts instructor on all things mac and macOS. This one is so good, just the de-clutter aspect alone is just priceless.

[@Dilshad-gu7je]

Thanks yet again. I really appreciate your direct to the point style. You are my go-to-first source for all things Mac.

[@vijayverma1984]

thankyou very much Gary..you are awesome

[@Leinsterbaby]

This is how one becomes mac os power user. By watching this channel!

[@paglov4726]

Excellent. Thank you very much 👌🏻

[@meeluanistyn1644]

Never realised you could drag tags to the Dock.

[@normski4ash]

I hate you ! Binned windoze and became a mac user many many moons ago, but I knew very little of this until now, you truly are a good man ! Thank you so much for this one...

[@roxammon5858]

Good stuff again, Gary.

[@zendma1662]

Very useful. Thanks

[@david57989]

Gary, you have the best macOS tips. I found adding System Preference panes to be most helpful.

[@aveerajsharma]

Anyone can master MacOS by watching your videos and subscribing

[@Daveesrc]

I must give this a try.

[@juliesmith7993]

These are PERFECT!! i’ll definitely get some set up! Thank you Gary!

[@amansonwani2712]

Your videos are very helpful to set up macbook for new user 👍

[@lindadesgroseilliers17]

Great tip for creating the bookmarks folder. I've always got multiple tutorials open from KZbin and they clutter up my screen. Now I can put them into the bookmark folder and find them easily. Great tip!

[@A.G.1.5000]

Thank you sir.

[@DONQUIIIXOTE]

Switching to Mac and I’ve been watching these videos to create my workflow on the os. This is great stuff. Subscribed.

[@normancoutts]

Brill! Very helpful thanks.

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A great informative video tutorial today! Thanks for the visuals. As always thanks for showing us how! Thank you, Gary! 👏👍🏻❤️

[@unclec11]

dude you are on fire! thanks!

[@thevacdude]

Thanks for the video, Garry.

[@keithedwinsmith9416]

Excellent information! Definitely going to add Tagged Documents and Weblinks as I can utilise that for what I’m currently working on across multiple applications.

[@OleOlson]

I learn so much on these videos. Thank you.

[@jacktinga3581]

Thanks for the video!

[@Curlew-Corner]

Thanks. I’m new to your site but find it very helpful.

[@joeygo0999]

I've been using macOS since Tiger, and oh my! Gary you always come up with useful features I didn't know about!!!

[@dazzarg5]

Brilliant. Thank you. I love the web bookmarks. This is good

[@rjwh67220]

As an old Unix sysadm, I really missed links to files that I could drop wherever I wanted. Of course, I did all that with the command line. But with my Mac, I’d gotten away from the command line. These tips have been great. Thanks.

[@antonygoedhals6272]

Thanks again Maestro! Apple should hire you as a user expert!

[@ogarcia515]

It's mind-boggling what can be done--thank you!

[@ChinhNguyen-yb3cp]

It’s very helpful. Thank you so much!

[@janicebrigman3678]

Now that's a bunch of cool tips, thanks, Gary!!!

[@sylvest1001]

Super useful

[@radharcanna]

That was extremely useful. I learned loads of new things.

[@johnredmond7085]

Well done Gary, as always, very informative.

[@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee]

hey this is great the application folder with list view I've been doing this for years! thanks for sharing Gary!! The application folder will be helpful for a new mac user coming from windows, it reminds me of that in windows.

[@umacs-media]

Top drawer Gary, love your work, I learn heaps of new tricks to use on my Mac. Keep em coming! :)

[@roberthiday3342]

not just 'useful', excellent. thanks.

[@iankastelic881]

Hi Gary- may make a suggestion for an episode or series? There may be a lot of us who use a Mac at work but are required to use Google docs, slides, and sheets. It would be awesome if you could show us tricks and tips and ways that I can use it these applications to the greatest advantage on a Mac. I love your work and assured your channel with many friends. Thank you so much and keep up the great work!

[@macmost]

I'm not a big Google Docs user myself. Occasionally. But I don't have the depth of knowledge needed in that subject I'm afraid.

[@MichaelSharpTechniSmart]

Solid tips, thank you.

[@NIZARCLUB550]

Thanks

[@DrJohnPollard]

Gee, that's a clever trick there, that folder in the dock idea.

[@curiouscurious6558]

enjoy your videos, curious, isn't it just as easy to click finder create new tag and filter docs that way? Thank you for all you do

[@GoldenRvr]

your videos are wonderful, thanks.

[@peterbreis5407]

May I suggest a vodcast on the use for Clippings. I keep a folder of useful clippings of addresses, boiler plate text, Lorem ipsum text for headlines, body text, lists, names and addresses and positional images and media. As I need them I drag them into open documents.

[@argee55]

Thank you for a very useful video.

[@Jimgoodwin846]

Gary, this is a great video! It blows me away what you know and share with us. My biggest fear…is moving things around and when I put them back I loose them forever which I have done before. I don’t understand how to put files and folders back without loosing them.

[@macmost]

What "things" are you moving around? The items in the Dock? Those are just aliases to the real apps/folders/files. The actual items stay in the same place.

[@Jimgoodwin846]

@@macmost Thanks Gary. I place a monthly spreadsheet in the Dock-if I understand correctly, it would be ok to “ Trash” the alias and my original would be ok.

[@macmost]

@@Jimgoodwin846 Right. Not trash, but "remove from Dock." Just drag it up and out of the Dock.

[@cottagekeeper]

Wow! Thank you 🙏🏼

[@peterbreis5407]

I do something similar, including to web links. I use custom folder icons to identify them, including one for my favourite commentator as a deep-etched head and shoulders. You can do the same with folders of links to regular email contacts and messages. It's easy to make deep-etched portrait icons in Preview. I have another method that I developed for when I set up a weekly magazine which was held on a server. I had a link for all the staff that pointed to an alias that would point to a folder holding the current week's publication, stories, photos and ads. After that went to press, I switched the link on the server to point to the next issue and the completed issue would be moved to the archive. Nobody had to change anything on their Macs. Their links always pointed to the current issue and the archives folder.

[@qwincyq6412]

Thanks for all the useful tips for making the dock more useful and friendly. One question: why put frequently used folders and files in the dock instead of leaving them on the desktop where they can also be easily seen? Maybe I’m just a messy desk kinda person 😉.

[@macmost]

One reason would be messy desktop = decreased productivity. Lots of visual distractions. They also then can't be seen behind windows or on full screen apps.

[@desertpatient]

Thanks bunches

[@Dr_Larken]

Help!!! Off subject ! I have a MacBook M1 with 256 GB hard drive, i’m down to 14 GB of free space I currently cannot back up onto an external hard drive at the moment I want to delete stuff like 10 GB worth of stuff nothing changes suggestions please thank you

[@lorensims4846]

Under Snow Leopard on my old first edition MacBook I have the Application folder in my Dock but in Grid view. List view is just too fussy for fast selection. On my main MacBook Pro under Mojave I have Recent Applications, again in a Grid view, as my primary launcher.

[@josephm.incandela6950]

When I control-click on dock icons, I don't get all the options in the video (display as, sort by, etc.). I just get Open Recent, Options (Keep in Dock, etc.), etc. How do I get the larger menus on the video?

[@macmost]

For which icon in the Dock, specifically. For many you'll only see recents and Options. It depends on the app.

[@davidis7]

Gary, do you keep your only documents folder in iCloud?

[@macmost]

Yes.

[@davidgory1757]

Deep! 🙏

[@eroomomni]

Thanks Gary. A little off the subject but I've been wanting to ask you this for a while. I use a digital projector every day in my teaching. To switch between the mirroring screen on the projector and not, I use the keystroke Fn-Command-Brightness on the touch-bar. I wish there was a way to bring up the Mirror Selection feature on the Touch Bar. Just can't figure it out.

[@macmost]

There might be but I don't know of one offhand, sorry. I don't connect to a projector very often so I haven't noticed.

[@eroomomni]

@@macmost Thanks for the reply. Just in case you, or anyone else gives it some thought, when the projector cable is removed and reconnected, the Touch Bar displays this...[ Display Connected: Mirror Displays Extended Desktop ]. Just not sure how to bring up this display on the Touch Bar on demand. Thank you again. Your videos are on my top five of must see on a regular basis.

[@skkrawczyk]

Application folder was a default item in the dock in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, when stacks were introduced for the first time. I miss this operating system. It was a time, when a new version of the OS was really bringing new features. And it was beautiful as well, I liked it much more than current candy-like interface.

[@phat_gunpla_etc]

gary, how do you create that note with the circled bullets...and check them for completion but they still stay with the notes?? thanks

[@macmost]

In the Dock? Or do you mean in an app like Notes? But default Notes doesn't remove items from a list. Reminders does, but you can change that there too.

[@phat_gunpla_etc]

@@macmost no, i mean in the note app..just like your example in your note vidoeo

[@macmost]

@@phat_gunpla_etc Ah, OK. Just that the comment was left on this video about the Dock.

[@hugochan2821]

If you add the application folder to show every app in the list, why not just use spot light search. It is quicker and more convenient.

[@bst6796]

Can someone tell me how to select multiple files in Finder with icon view? Select + Shift +select works only with list viev and column viev. Second day with macos and it gives me Such a kick. Use it every day many Times in Win10..

[@macmost]

With the mouse? Drag a rectangle around those you want.

[@bst6796]

@@macmost its ok when u choose 10 img, but when its 100 or sth, its easier to choose first 1st and last with keyboard. Is it any option to make it easier, also with touchpad?

[@macmost]

@@bst6796 So why not switch to List or Column view then? Just switch to that view to do this task, and then back to Icon view if you really want.

[@RyderCragie]

0:20 the MacMost logo disappeared.

[@quiltsick]

Gary, WHY aren't you CEO of Apple?? It's a good thing I don't live close to you because you would not have time to make videos because of tutoring me 🤣 Thanks as always for a great video

[@shousley5817]

WOW!

[@rpratt3746]

I don't use the dock, only shortcut for me.I'll watch this for ideas. Do you use the dock?

[@macmost]

Yes, I use it to launch apps and to drag and drop files into apps.

[@lonecody]

You need to update this video the stuff here does not work on my Mac.

[@macmost]

this is an older video, but I think everything in it should still work. what are you having trouble with specifically?

[@lonecody]

@@macmost I was trying to add a KZbin icon to the dock. I just cannot make it work on this Mac mini. I could not drag the application folders to the dock it would not stick.

[@macmost]

@@lonecody First, what are you dragging, exactly? What item, and where is that item, exactly? Second, where are you dragging it to: the left side of the Dock or right side?

[@lonecody]

@@macmost doesn’t matter where I drag it. It just snaps right back to the panel. I found it in. I find it a lot of videos that I watch concerning stuff like Photoshop or the Mac computer just don’t work anymore. macOS and Photoshop changes things. It’s not a big deal. I thought I saw you do a video on it and then when I tried to search back and find it, I could not. Sometimes the frustration is just not worth the end product you are looking for with a Mac. However, your videos are great. I’ve learned a lot from you. Thank you very much.

[@macmost]

@@lonecody It doesn’t sound like you are dragging an ‘app” to the left side as you said “KZbin icon” and that’s a web site. But without the details I asked for in the last comment I can’t help much.

[@araneus1]

I'm not a novice, but I cannot get this to work.

[@macmost]

Which part are you having trouble with? What are you doing, and what is not coming out right?

[@aveerajsharma]

Thanks