Dragthing
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DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop.
It puts all your documents, folders, and applications just a single click away. Highly flexible, it allows multiple docks, each customised to suit your exact needs.
It stores frequently-used clippings su.
Platforms
- Mac
Discontinued
Notice on https://www.dragthing.com/ of discontinuation as of 2019.
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TLA Systems Ltd. Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) + free version with limited functionality.Alternatives
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The opensource Quicksilver does much of what DragThing did and is far more customizable.
Station (the one by True North Software) seems to come close. You have to click on the Load More Apps as the bottom of the list of alternatives to see it. IMHO this site could do with a reorganization where new programs/recently updated programs are listed first and discontinued/problem alternatives are listed last.
The developers have stated the program will not work on Apple's future 64-bit only OSes and that given the time investment to get it compliant odds are it will not be updated.
The MacOS itself can be used to create an alternative to DragThing:
Dragthing on the mac via the Dock.
Create a folder with Aliases of the programs you want in a “drawer” Put the aliases into a folder Repeat as often as necessary Put these folders into another folder Put this folder into the documents part of the Dock Configure the resulting icon to view content by list Click on the icon to open the “drawers” (a list of the folders containing the aliases).
Have you found anything remotely as good as DragThing yet? If so, PLEASE let me know! Do you think we should start a Kickstarter fund to pay the developer or someone else to re-write it?
QuickSilver is a excellent alternative.
You can simulate Dragthing on the mac via the Dock.
[Edited by brucelgrubb, September 27]