HeyDockOne dock per kind of work.
A mode is a named context — Writing, Building, Meeting — with its own apps, sites and widgets. Switch modes and the dock changes with you.
HeyDock starts with templates for Writing, Building, Social, Meeting, Design, Study and Founder, filled with the apps you already have installed. Pick two or three when you first open it; it takes under two minutes.
Switch from the pill at the start of the dock, from the menu bar, or with ⌥1, ⌥2, ⌥3 and so on. The old mode’s icons dive into the dock and the new ones fly up in a wave, in the new mode’s colour. HeyDock remembers your mode across restarts.
Each mode keeps its own list of allowed sites too. The browser extension uses that list to tell whether a tab fits the mode you’re in.
See it work.
What you get.
Your apps, sorted
Add apps by dragging them from Finder or picking from a list. Reorder by dragging; right-click an icon to move it to another mode.
Symbols and colours
Every mode has its own symbol and one of eight colours, used in the pill, the switch animation and the optional mode wallpaper.
Tidy up when switching
Optionally hide the other modes’ open apps on a switch and bring back this mode’s. Nothing is quit.
Suggestions
Open Xcode while in Writing and HeyDock can suggest Building, with Switch and Not now.
Set it up.
Menu bar › Edit Modes…
- Click the HeyDock icon in the menu bar and choose Edit Modes….
- Add, rename, reorder or delete modes, and pick a symbol and colour.
- Drag apps in, list allowed sites, and add widgets.
Good to know
- Switching shortcuts use ⌥ with 1–9 by default; you can change the modifier or turn them off in Settings › General › Shortcuts.
Questions.
How many modes can I have?
As many as you like. The first nine get a keyboard shortcut.
Do modes quit apps?
No. Switching changes what the dock shows. With Tidy up when switching on, other modes’ apps are hidden, never quit.