When you sit in front of your Mac, always it is advisable to have your desk well organized, not having too many things in it, as well as keeping the main things that you use most frequently there. It is easy to fall into the familiar "chaos" of finding nothing when we have numerous applications in it.
But how can we really get the most out of the computer's Dock and Launchpad? Here We give you some tips for this that can be really useful.
El Dock it is only for those applications that REALLY you use. When you get enough practice with your computer, it will be time to do not lift your hands from the keyboard to access Spotlight and search for documents or applications. Therefore, the searches that will be carried out almost automatically will be those that you use with a high frequency.
If you use your computer for work, It will be very useful to have instant access to those applications or documents that you usually use. Therefore, in the Dock, locate only what is really necessary for you.
El Launchpad it is something else. Best of all is to organize first screen with applications that you usually use very frequently, followed in later pages by applications that we invoke less. Using the folders inside the Launchpad (as some native macOS Sierra apps already come by default) can be a differentiator in your day-to-day life.
Use them wisely to organize them by categories, or hiding in a folder «Others» those that you don't use at all. In this way, you will be able to locate everything you need with much greater agility.
If you would like to "Start from scratch" with your Dock and your Launchpad, just as if you had bought your computer right now, just open Terminal and type following:
- For the Dock:
defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock
- For the Launchpad:
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall dock
In this way, you will restart the organizational system structure almost completely, thus being able to start over with a renewed organizational structure.