Leopard Stacks to Grid Productivity Tip

Lots of people hate stacks in Leopard, and it's one of those features that I think will be revised in future updates. And, frankly, I find stacks as they're initially implemented useless.

However - I have found a solution that to me is really productive.

What you should try in your dock is this...

Right click (or control-click) the stack icon or folder. Up will come a little menu, and what you're going to want to do is go under "View As" and switch to "Grid" instead of "Automatic" or "Stack."

Grid is immensely more useful to me and works for now. Eventually, I hope that you can resize the icons in the Grid. I theorized that maybe it was tied to the icon size of the Finder window, but no dice. If I could get the icons a little smaller in the Grid, then I could have more stuff visible.

And of course, following Merlin Mann-Fu, organize by most recent or by date so the most recent opened items are first. Really helps when you're working on projects.

The Zen of a Fresh Machine...

Being semi-savvy in technical areas, I've managed  to keep my original setup migrated all the way from 2003 - and that can mean a lot of baggage.

I used Leopard as an excuse to refresh EVERYTHING... down to the iTunes star rankings.  Time to unlearn bad habits, and break out of the top 100 songs from years ago back when I had eight CDs in iTunes, and so they're so hopelessly skewed in my favorites that there will never be new ones.  

And, it's... liberating.  Of course, you need your documents, email, and other business riff raff.  However, getting freedom is wonderful.

And, the Intel platform blows the doors off the PowerPC.  Had the pleasure of retiring them to file servers this weekend.