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An AppleScript to quickly launch applications
Authored by: rotaiv on Feb 24, '04 11:06:03AM

I agree with may of the posts where people have commented on the size, organization and/or limitation of the default Applications folder. What I did was create a new folder called "Apps" and created aliases for my commonly used Applications in that folder. It is the "Apps" folder that is on my Dock and not the full blown "Applications" folder.

This allows you to arrange, include/exclude any application you want. Just in case, I have an alias for " Applications" and " Utilities" in the "Apps" folder. Note the space before the file name. This puts these aliases at the top of my list so that I don't have to scroll over them to get to the other application aliases.

Now I just click and hold the "Apps" alias in my dock, select the application I want and I'm all set. Doing it this way, I really don't care how much is in my Applications directory because I rarely go there. A small directory with nothing but aliases loads really fast and I can put them in any directory organization that suites my needs.



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An AppleScript to quickly launch applications
Authored by: dogboy on Feb 24, '04 12:39:09PM

Or you could put the aliases in your user applications folder, to keep things tidy.



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