Chapter 5
Getting Fancy with the Desktop and Finder
IN THIS CHAPTER
Organizing your desktop with Stacks
Adding widgets to your desktop
Automating tasks with Quick Actions
Editing image, video, and audio files without an application
Capturing stills and movies of your screen
In this chapter, you first learn how to organize your desktop with Stacks and how to decorate it with widgets that display information you want to have available at a glance. You then move on to handling tasks swiftly using Quick Actions and capturing screenshots and screen recordings.
Cleaning Up Your Desktop Automatically with Stacks
Putting icons on the desktop can be a great way of giving yourself access to key files. The problem is that your desktop may end up looking like Figure 5-1 — or worse.
Good news: Your Mac’s Stacks feature lets you streamline your desktop in moments. Click the desktop to make it active, and you can organize it with Stacks in three ways:
FIGURE 5-1: A messy, disorganized desktop. ...
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