In this article let’s see how we can make use of the "Recent Items" menu shortcut and also how to make a stack item just for the recently used applications so it can be easily accessed.

Almost all of the latest operating systems have a means to keep track of the recently used items, be it either applications, documents, files or other file types, they have some way to easily get back to those recently used stuffs.

When it comes to Mac OSX it has a feature built into the menu bar itself with which you can get to the recently used items. It neatly organizes the recently used items by Applications and Documents. If you are comfortable clicking on the menu bar to get to the recently used applications and documents then you don’t have to follow the next step to enhance this a little bit more.

One of the best features of Mac OSX Snow Leopard is the Dock Stacks. It gave us a great way to see the stack of things in a nice visual way than the boring menu layout. Follow these steps below if you’d like to bring the recently used applications to your Dock Stack instead.

Open up Terminal and type-in,

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others array-add ‘{"tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }’

Once done, enter the following command to restart the dock,

kill all Dock

Make sure to begin the "Dock" word in capital letter.

You should now be able to see a new stack icon created on your Dock with convenient access to your recently used applications on your Mac OSX.

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Tags: Mac OSX Leopard, How To