Dock Star

Yes, this is how we want the MacOS to customize and function! I used ʻDrag Thingʻ for a decade and Dock Star is the improved successor in the same spirit and brilliance. Makes one wonder why this isnʻt endemic to the MacOS? Anyway— need now resolved.💯

This is literally the single most useful app on my Mac. As the editor of a publication, I often need quick access to dozens of different files, apps and links. The native MacOS dock is somewhat useful, but it pales in comparison to the flexibility and functionality of Dock Star. It's basically a very sophisticated dock with aliases to all your important files so that you don't have to open nests of windows. For Mac users who remember an now-extinct app called DragThing, Dock Star does everything DragThing did and more, with a much more customizable and intuitive interface that doesn't intrude on your desktop real estate. Unlike the OS Dock, you can place multiple docks anywhere on your desktop, set the color, translucency, size, number of columns, rows and layers and many other parameters. It makes my workflow orders of magnitude more efficient than with the OS Dock or any other tabbed launcher I've used. Very grateful to the developer for resurrecting and improving on DragThing--for those who used that app, its demise was a tragedy. I cannot recommend this app enough.