DesktopShelves 4+
Folders as Shelves
Kitestack Software
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- $14.99
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Description
DesktopShelves helps you fight the clutter on your desktop by organizing files on shelves. A shelf the size of 5 icons holds 20 files.
"Thank you for a solid product, that I believe has the potential to be a STANDARD for every Mac owner!!" —Dom
"Very handy way to tidy up the desktop." —Michael
"DesktopShelves is such a great and ingenious application." —Regina
The app takes a refreshing approach to organizing files. It focuses on saving space on your screen while allowing you to always quickly access your files (via hotkey).
Everything is drag and drop. You can even drop text selections on a shelf and a new file is created automatically. Right-click and drag a file away from a shelf to insert its contents into another application such as Mail (great for keeping a "shelf" with frequently used mail templates, for example).
FEATURES
• Finder integration: Open any folder as a shelf on the desktop right from the Finder context menu (requires restart to activate first time).
• Choose from different shelf designs or create your own: The designs make your desktop unique and help you to tell your shelves apart. Design your own or download additional designs from the web.
• Drop a text selection on a shelf and get a new file: Found something on the web that you'd like to remember? Select it, drag and drop it on a shelf, done.
• Works great with text snippets: Right-click and drag a file away from a shelf to paste its text contents into other applications such as Mail, TextEdit, etc. (works for plain and rich text files).
• Access your shelves with a hotkey: Bring your shelves on top of all other windows to quickly access your files.
• Drag & drop everywhere: Drop files from the desktop or Finder onto shelves or the other way around from your shelves into other applications.
What’s New
Version 2.4.0
App backwards compatible now again all the way to macOS 10.9.5
Ratings and Reviews
Potential for great organizing tool
This app could be the Drag Thing of OS X if it had a few more options for customization. I have been using this to make frequently-opened documents easily accessible from one neat place on my desktop, for which it works very well. I have only begun to investigate the potential of the desktop shelf for organizing text clippings and writing projects, but I think it could be quite useful.
I do like the appearance options, although I would like to see greater variability from "large" to "small" in icon and shelf size and perhaps some way to vary the angle at which icons are displayed on the shelves when not in focus. Very much appreciated is the ability to sort items according to varying criteria, especially since the way the icons are currently displayed makes it difficult to tell them apart visually.
I think this is a really cool idea and could become an elegant but powerful way to organize files.
Very Helpful Utility!
I do a lot of presenting and it's extremely useful to be able to retrieve the document I want on the spot as needed. I have more than 100 documents across 19 sehelves on my desktop. Whenever I access it (using the touchpad hand gesture that spreads away everything but my desktop), people are impressed with the capability and organization this utitlity helps me produce. I espacially like the Swedish style shelf ;)
Tidy up the desktop!
I love this app for keeping my desktop clutter free and organized so I can get to what I need quickly. Love the style choices for the shelves and that you can sort what you put on the shelves by kind. It would be nicer looking if somehow the weblocks and folder icons could actually look like books on a shelf. :) But a great app as is.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your kind words! I'm glad to hear that you like the app. I'll keep your feedback in mind for future updates. Should you run into anything else, let me know. I'm always open for suggestions. Cheers, Rico
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Rico Gundermann
- Size
- 3.3 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.9.5 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019 Kitestack Software
- Price
- $14.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.