Creating Handy Dock Folders With Apps Or Files 

So much stuff I didn't know, thanks Gary

Gary, Thank you for all of the great tips you provide each day. Always clear, concise and most importantly USEFUL! ⚡️

Still learning new to me things! A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏❤️

This is an excellent idea. I just set up a folder with aliases to my most frequently used files and can now access them from the dock rather than drilling down to the proper Finder folder. Good time saver. Thanks for the tip.

Thx for this. I spent some time cleaning up my dock and it really helped my desktop. I made customized icons for the folders (divided by company) so I could see them quickly. Much better workspace!

This is amazing. Been using mac for 8 yrs & never knew about this feature. (I used Windows at my day job from which I just retired, so I have a lot to catch up on!) Thanks!

Such a good idea. Just created such a file and it works, even pulling files up from my Parallels Windows 11 location. Saves soo much time!!

Just this morning I thought to myself - "Simplify your Dock, bozo!" (I'm not very complimentary to myself😀 ) And then I saw this - thanks a ton as ever Gary.

Thanks for helping us to keep learning. I’ve had almost every Mac type since the Lisa (yeah, Newton, ugh. But DuoDock way ahead of its time.) But in recent years I’m on mostly office PC laptops so I forget a lot. Wife’s home iMac finally burned itself up, so got new 15” MacBook. Love it, but a lot to re-learn. Thanks Gary.

Awesome! Thanks Gary! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Loved this channel. keep it up!

So great 😀 your tutorials are the absolute best

Thanks very much, Gary, for this very informative video today. These Dock Folders are a great idea and will be so useful.

This is excellent information! I had a continual problem of Finder losing shortcuts to my NAS and other network resources. Someone suggested, perhaps it was you in a previous video, to create alias's for all network resources. Even if the shortcut in Finder goes away, the alias is ALWAYS there and can always pull up the network resource. I then took all of my shortcut alias's and placed them in a Favorite folder on the Dock. The result is that with one click from the DOCK I have dependable shortcuts that take me to all of my favorite network resources! Thank you for everything you do to make things easier for us.

I've been using this tip of your for awhile, but adding the alias fror frequently used files that may not always show in the Recents list of an app is GREAT!

Very useful.

Excellent tutorial. Learned a lot from this video. Many thanks!

Wonderful idea! Thank you Gary. 

Thanx! This is cool customizations

Great stuff Gary. Really useful, thank you.

thanks you do great things with Mac OS.

Great stuff. Thanks!

Thank you so much it’s amazing

Great info.

Really nice!

Thanks bunches

Excellent useful video. My most used files are in Google Drive so I'll see if I can create aliases when I get home to my iMac.

some idea. Will make finding important files a LOT simpler.

I wish we could do this across the whole dock. Was there a time when dock folders defaulted to this type of function - I seem to remember seeing something like it in the years before I got a Mac.

This is a good hack tip. Thanks! Hard to believe there isn't a utility which allows the dock to be configured with several different themes that would correspond with Focus. Seems logical yet Apple may be waiting to see how an opportunistic dev can create something viable.

Would be nice if the icon would change to show some of the apps like in iOS

Great job Gary, can you add tags to the dock? Ie just red tags, for quicker access other than going through finder?

I placed files I use daily onto that dock area. For example, I have a spreadsheet for my banking activities. I have a folder called Taxes 2023 that holds my tax data sheets for my tax activities. So, files and folders can be placed on the divider line's dock area to the right. I have another folder called Databases that lists the most commonly used databases.

if only I could MOVE those icont into folders. I use five chat apps, it is meaningleass to stare at their icons all the time, tkaing unecessary space in the dock :( edit: sent it early: I'm a newcomer into Mac wolrd, your videos assured me this can be learnt quickly. Thanks :) will check out your apps too

Thanks. Could you do a video on how to properly setup and use Microsoft Teams on a Mac? thanks in advance

I added a link to MacMost RU-vid tutorial videos to mine ( www.youtube.com/@macmost ). Thanks Gary. 🤩

Hello! Is there any way (whether by command line) so that when Stage Manager is active, it still minimize apps for the dock? I like Stage Manager very much, but in my view it is much more sense to continue minimizing apps for the dock than simply throwing it to Stage Manager.

Is there a reason you didn't move the Dock Folder onto the Dock instead of the sub folders?

Hello Gary, This is not pertinent to today's video but may be a suggestion for another one. I am running Ventura on a desktop iMac. In my house, there are many Bluetooth devices. How can I stop the desktop from trying to connect these devices? Is there a permanent way to forget these devices? It's been a while since you have done a video about Bluetooth. Thanks.

Question!!! I've been trying to find a way to do this - create category of Apps ie. (ie. Grapics Folder with Photoshop + Graphics Converter inside) and be able to drag and drop a file from the desktop or finder and navigate to the dock (graphics folder) and drop that file ONTO the app I want to launch it in? So far, I have not found a single program that allows me to add drag/drop functionality of files from desktop, UNLESS its on the main dock. This is so frustrating and trying to find a workaround to so I can few apps on the main dock, and more folders with categories ie. Audio, Graphics, etc with drag/drop file functionality. The DRAG n DROP of files onto the apps in the folders is the main thing I'm struggling with. Can someone help or suggest a work around? or suggest a third party app that does this? I've tried a whole heap of "dock" third party apps and NONE allow for drag and drop of files from the desktop, and launch the program I drag it ontop of in my list. Ie. .mp3 file and drag to audio folder and choose which program to drag it on top of to open. ie. Amadus, or Logic Pro (in my audio folder on dock).. I appreciate any help with this. Cheers!

What if I just want to change the folder color?

CAN I CUSTOMIZE THE ICON WITH A PICTURE FROM THE PHOTO APP?

👋👋👋👋👋

For some reason when in change the folder icon in the finder it's not changing on the dock folder. I have tried four different icons without success. I am on Monterey 12.6.8. Any ideas??

That looks dangerously like the Windows start menu of old 😂

Stop giving me all these great tips. I start to like my Mac more than my Windows 😂