Of all the folders we have on our Mac, there is one where it’s more important than any other that we keep order: the desktop. At the same time, it is the folder that we always have the most at hand, so it is common for us to quickly save any file, drag the contents of the model between locations and, in short , we have some mess. Fortunately, the batteries take care of controlling the office, automatically.
A way to put content together and keep it in order
Viewing hundreds of documents on the desktop is often quite overwhelming. Conscious of this, Apple offers us a very simple solution: use the batteries. The idea behind these stacks is to automatically collect files of the same type. Instead of seeing 100 images, 25 PDF documents and 14 spreadsheets, we will only see three stacks. A substantial difference, without a doubt.
We can turn the batteries on and off very easily. It is enough that we do secondary click on any empty space on the desktop and activate the option Use batteries. Nothing more. We will see how all the files are automatically distributed and collected in the necessary stacks and all of them appear in the upper right part of the desktop.
The way the stacks work is such that if there are no files of a certain type on the desktop, the stack just won’t be created, which means we will always see as few icons as possible. The system also takes care of sorting the files, which are placed under existing piles, listed in alphabetical order.
Interaction with the elements contained in the batteries is very easy. Simply we click on a stack to display it and let’s see all the content. Once deployed, the files appear ready to be managed as we normally would.
On more than one occasion we can thank the use of batteries. Depending on how we work, it is very possible that we do not want to activate this option all the time, but given how easy it is to activate, this will allow us more than one opportunity to order in a simple and efficient way. One click and you’re done.
Image | Jeremy Bézanger
