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Not restricted to decorating your Dock, customizing stack drawer can also improve your productivity. Let's see how it can be done.
After reading article on LifeClever by Chanpory Rith entitled "How to Organize Your Cluttered Desktop and Regain Your Sanity", which talk about creating specific folder to organize your cluttered Desktop, I realize one thing : I am still too lazy to organize those cluttered files. Fortunately, I've several fancy drawer icons which could be used to attract my attention so that I can gladly place my files into those folders.
Create Several Folders
This is intended to separate several types of files you've on your cluttered Desktop. For example, create four folders for this week, last week, last two weeks, and last month to-dos.
Embed Fancy Icons into Each of Those Folders
It's very easy to create fancy stack drawers with embedded icon, as discussed in my previous article : Preview Tutorial - Embed Icon into Stack Drawer. So I believe, creating several stack drawers that inhabit your Dock will also be really easy. Don't forget to sort your folder by Name.
There is a little trick that I just figured out. With this little trick, you only need to create a new folder once in a week for maintenance purpose. What's this trick?
Moving Around Stack Drawers
To save your time, don't do things like renaming folder each time you want to do maintenance of your files neither moving all the contents from one folder to another. You only need to move the Drawers around as you can recognize what's inside those particular folders faster by seeing different color and icons of Drawers than by checking the contents first.
See images below for better understanding.
Changing the stack display to View as Fan will make it easier to move around stack drawers.
Trash Contents of Oldest Folder
Once every week you'll need to trash the oldest contents. This can be easily done by selecting all the contents (Command-A) except the Stack Drawer, and move them all to Trash.
Categories:
Productivity
Tags:
Desktop,
Dock
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6 Comments
Himavanth B
png files r not seen with transparent background in the icon of the png file i didn't understant how u create this.. after seeing the images in this pages the icons didn't show any anything like if its jpg the icon in u r page preview's default jpg icon mi problem how do i shoe png file transparent as an icon even if i add the icon to the folder , the folder icon won't be there only the items in it are shown......
Himavanth B
sorry for mi bad english png files or any files r not shown as there own, icon of every image file shows up the white border and shadow
Webmaster
Image file will be displayed with white border. You need to open the image with Preview and then copy it to Clipboard (Cmd-C). After that, open get info from one of your folder's contents and then paste the image into the icon.
More detailed steps can be looked here : Preview Tutorial - Embed Icon into Stack Drawer.
Himavanth B
i will tell u what i did-the image file opened with Preview then copy it twith (Cmd-C). After that get info of mi folder i used in dock for stacks and then paste the image into the icon. it will show the Icon in the finder window, but after dropping in on the dock the contents of items in folder are shown but not icon of the folder with items in it. what i did-i custom made a new icon for downloads folder , the icon file image opened with Preview and copy with command+c and after , info window of mi downloads folder selected the icon and then pasted command+v the icon was there.. the icon perfectly there in finder window i again keep mi downloads folder in dock and it shown with items in it... i want to see exactly images created in this page
Himavanth B
http://www.flickr.com/photos/himavanth_99hrs/2231149694/ link check that and please find a way for me i really liked it ...... with special drawers..
Czarina
Hi there! I like your drawers for stacks. (I don't actually know what they're called.) Where can I download them? Is it for free? Thanks in advance!
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