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Desktop makeovers
Sidecar (Catalina only)
>Sidecar gives you even more
screen real estate by enlisting your
iPad as an additional monitor. To send
an app to Sidecar from your Mac
desktop, just go into the Window menu
and you’ll see a ‘Move to’ option
detailing the available iPad(s).Using Stacks
>Is your desktop in dire need
of decluttering? ≈-click on any empty
bit of it and select Use Stacks. This
automatically organises everything
into clickable, themed Stacks – music,
images, PDF documents and so on- to keep everything tidy.
Hide your Dock
>If the Dock is getting in the
way of your apps, ≈-click on it and
select Dock Preferences. You can use
these options to make it hide when it
isn’t in use, to relocate it to a different
part of the display or to adjust its size
and magnification.Multiple desktops
>You can run multiple virtual
desktops, aka Spaces, in your Mac with
Mission Control, which you can launch
with the key on your Apple Keyboard,
the Dock icon or with a three or
four-fingered trackpad swipe. Use
the ‘+’ button to add a new Space.Nix notifications
>If you’re feeling a bit
overwhelmed by your Mac’s app
notifications, you can change how they
behave and appear on a per-app basis
in System Preferences > Notifications- including setting Do Not Disturb hours
when they won’t interrupt you at all.
Keep it organised
>If your desktop icons are all
over the place and you don’t want to file
everything in folders, ≈-click on the
desktop and choose Clean Up to give
them a quick tidy up. Use Clean Up By
if you want to organise them by type,
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