Organizing Your Apps on Mac with Overflow 3

The original Mac application for organizing applications (called Launch) replicates the same system as the cell phone for exposing all installed programs. Basically, Launch displays a list of icons that can be grouped into sets. And the very way of moving the icons is similar to what you do on a cell phone. Although this simplicity has a good side, it can become quite limiting as well.

Since, until recently, I had a lot of apps installed on my Mac (many of which I just tested and should have uninstalled by now), I got to the point where I had trouble finding the programs by name. That's when I decided to install a program to manage Launch itself and things started to get out of control. So, more than once, I lost the organization made and this discouraged me from maintaining the solution.

But now I've just found one that seems to me to be a pretty neat solution, called Overflow 3 (USD 14.95). In my view, Overflow is a kind of bookmark bar for your apps . After all, you only put the apps you want in Overflow. And when you take them out of there, they don't get unstuck, so Overflow is an additional layer of organization.

Although my comparison is always with Launch, Overflow also stands as an alternative to the Dock itself, which are the noblest shortcuts you can have for applications. In addition, Overflow has a good search for files, folders, images, and links. That is, all these types of content can be placed on Overflow.

This sum of features allowed me to organize native apps and links to web apps (increasingly frequent) in the same environment. In practice, I no longer stop to think about whether I really have that application installed on my computer or if the shortcut will lead to an address in the browser. And, as all this is done with the help of tabs that can identify application groups, the activation of programs has become much faster.

I imagine getting lost in your apps is an uncommon problem as people tend to have a reduced number of programs installed. But if you, like me, are always testing new possibilities, you may end up falling into the same trap. At least now you know that you have Overflow so you don't get lost forever on your Mac's screen.