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.