If you are like me and like to keep your documents and projects neatly orgainzed then you will really like this application Dock Spaces. This app allows you to have up to 10 different docks and even tailor them for each Space you have arranged in Spaces. Going one step further, if your dock has too many icons close together it can be difficult to see. There is a way to group like icons making them easier to find.
The Dock Spaces application allows you to swap the dock for one that you have preset anytime you want from the menu bar. This will improve your productivity, and completely reinvent your user interface experience. Integrating this with Spaces will offer you a different dock depending on your Space selected.
It is also possible to seperate icons by creating a blank space between them. This will allow you to group like icons that are related to find faster. For example, you could group the iWork icons together then a space. You will have to run this commend below in Terminal (Applications > Utilities):

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’

And to add spacers to the right side of the dock run this command:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’

Each time that you run one of these commands by hitting Enter a new Space is added to the dock. In order to see the space that was added you will need to restart the dock with the “killall Dock” command, just type it without the quotes. In the future if you do not want the space on the dock anymore just drag them away or right click them and remove them from dock.

-Colin

Tags: Mac