A stack of recent apps in the Dock ?

Here is a simple way to achieve this, I think.

In the Finder, initiate a search, like this:

(or choose "Today" if you like; adjust the criteria as you want)

Save this search.

Drag the Smart Folder to the Dock.

DONE.

Arkivaren wrote:

In Mojave (don't know about the interim macos releases) you could run this

command in the terminal:

% defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{"tile-data" = {"list-type" = 1;}; "tile-type" = "recents-tile";}'; killall Dock

and you would get astack containing recent applications in the dock (See picture below), but this

does not seem to work anymore, does anyone know how to accomplish this in Monterey (12.4) ?

Regards

Ken Rasmussen

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/320f5e6c-196f-4f8e-b17c-c61e4f4aa600

Dock has section reserved for specific use.

I never found it practical to have "recents" in the menu bar at all.

There is a user preferences to turn this off >System Preferences>Dock & Menu bar

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Arkivaren wrote:

I'm aware of the "Show recent applications in Dock" setting but that's

not quite what I'm looking for as is plain from my question.

Thanks all the same though and have a nice day.

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Use folders in the Dock on Mac - Apple Support

Use desktop stacks on Mac - Apple Support