So instead of launching Pages and opening a document you can tell it to go right to a document that I've recently used. So I can use Control click or two finger click on the trackpad and it will bring up recent documents here. You also can go straight to a document in the Dock. So you can customize this to your liking. So if there's an app that you occasionally have to use you may not want it in the Dock. But it's a disadvantage in that you don't have all of your apps there. So you can drag an app into the Dock and add it in there and remove it just as easily.

You can even add more apps to the Dock any way that you want. You've got the most common apps or at least the default system apps here in the Dock. What makes a lot more sense is using the Dock. But clearly there's going to be too many steps to use this as the main way to launch apps. So hitting the letter P for instance jumps to the file with P at the beginning so you can move around a little quicker here. You can jump around using the keyboard just as you can in any Finder window. So sometimes there are some extra steps to get to things. Like here I've got a Utilities Subfolder and some publishers put their group of apps inside of a subfolder as well. So it's not all applications for everybody.Ī disadvantage is though that you've got sometimes things in subfolders. I actually have some games in the Games folder so they wouldn't be here. Now this has the advantage of showing you all of your apps or at least the ones in the Applications folder. I can then launch one by double clicking it. Here I'm using List View so it's easy for me to scroll through all the different applications here. But you can also choose Go and then Applications and then you're in the Applications folder. You may see it here on the left side of your Favorites. Let's, in the Finder, create a new finder window and in that finder window we go to the Applications folder. So the most basic way to open applications is to go to the Applications folder. Whether you can do it with the mouse or the keyboard. But which one is the best? Let's take a look at all of them and try to figure that out. There are so many different ways to launch apps on your Mac. There you could read more about it, join us, and get exclusive content. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 500 supporters. Today let's figure out what's the best way to launch apps on your Mac. For example, you could create a Macro with a Hot Key Trigger of F3 so it always activates Safari.Check out What Is The Best Way To Launch Apps On Your Mac? at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. If you want a specific keystroke to always launch a certain application, you can define a Macro to do that. Note the applications set to be launched or quit. By triggering the Application Switcher macro (for example by entering the default Command-Tab key trigger, though this can be changed) you can display the Application Switcher window. The Application Switcher is activated like any other macro, so you can find it in the Switcher Group in the Macros window. As well, you can quit, hide or show applications. You can do more than just switch between applications with Keyboard Maestro: it lets you define applications that always appear when you are switching so you can launch them quickly, and also Excluded Applications that you never want to see. But most of us use a lot more than one application and we need to be able to switch between them, whether or not the application is already open. At the end of the Macro we defined, we used the Switch To Last Application action to switch back to the application you were using before.

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