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Practical guides to the macOS Dock, multiple displays, app icons, Mac productivity and working with coding agents, from the people who make Moor.
Start by cutting what you rarely open. Then group the rest: put folders on the right side of the Dock and show them as stacks, and keep app shortcuts in a folder of aliases. Apple's Dock has only two built-in dividers and won't take folders on the apps side. For labeled groups, as many dividers and spacers as you like, or several docks, use an editor such as Moor's edit mode (Control-Option-E).
In Moor, press Control-Option-F (or choose Search… in Moor's menu bar) and start typing. One field finds everything in your docks, the files inside your docked folders (newest first), installed and running apps, your coding agents' sessions by project, your profiles and Moor's own actions. Use the arrow keys to choose, Return to open and Command-Return to show the item in Finder. Control-Option-F is Moor's own default shortcut, and you can change it.
Drag any folder into Apple's Dock and it becomes a stack. Control-click it to choose the sort order and whether it opens as a fan, grid or list. Appish reports that hovering an app in Apple's Dock shows only its name, though third-party apps can add previews. In a Moor dock (macOS 26 or later), Downloads shows each file's age, and running apps show live window previews once you turn them on.
