Is there a Fences alternative for Mac OS X? [closed]

Solution 1:

You can add spacers to the dock to separate groups of icons from others, just use this terminal comman: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{ "tile-type" = "spacer-tile"; }' killall Dock

It will create an empty spacer that you can then drag around the dock to group your icons together.

Using spacers and stacks (folders on your dock) are probably your best bet for replicating fences. You can drop some of the folders from your home dir onto the dock like downloads and documents and if you have rules for pushing certain files into those directories (downloads path from your browser etc.) then those files will always be available there.

Solution 2:

I also like Fences for Windows. The closest Mac app that I have found is Dragthing http://dragthing.com/. Dragthing is not exactly the same animal as Fences but in many ways it's much more powerful. I can not live without DragThing on my Mac.

I tried BumpTop on my Mac and I hated it. Bumptop's entire premise is really quite silly. I use my computer to help organize my life not to replicate the mess of papers on my real desktop.