How to Put Spacers in your Dock to Organize Apps
Here’s Cory’s impressively crowded Dock before he added spacers...
...and afterward, those lovely little gaps create logical groupings of kinds of apps.
The Dock is a great place for your most-used applications, but it can get a little crowded. With a Terminal command, you can add spacers to your Dock to organize things a little better. Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities), then type the following command:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'
Type the command once for each space you’d like to add, then type the following to restart the Dock:
killall Dock
In the new Dock, you’ll see the spacers to the right of your applications. Drag spacers around to create “sections” of applications in your Dock. To remove a spacer, simply drag it off the Dock.
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