Chapter 5

Delving Even Deeper into Big Sur’s Desktop and Finder

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Organizing your desktop with Stacks

Bullet Editing image, video, and audio files without an application

Bullet Automating tasks with Quick Actions

Bullet Making movies of your screen

Bullet Tips, hints, and techniques to help you do more work with less effort

In this chapter, you discover cool features you may not be familiar with — such as Stacks and Quick Actions — as well as features you (should) already know and love, such as Quick Look and the Preview pane. Along the way I also point out a handful of useful interface features that make Finder better.

And now, without further ado, let’s dive into the power and magic of Stacks on your desktop.

Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks

I’ve seen a lot of users’ Mac desktops over the years, and many of them look something like Figure 5-1.

Snapshot of a messy, disorganized desktop.

FIGURE 5-1: A messy, disorganized ...

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