
Stacks immediately performs its cleanup magic and the result looks like this (screenshot below): (The desktop after Stacks performs its cleanup magic.) To invoke Stacks, one can either right-click on the desktop and select “Use Stacks” from the menu that appears, choose View > Use Stacks from the menu bar, or use the Command – Control – O keyboard shortcut. Here’s what the desktop looks like before Stacks (see screenshot below): (A deliberately messy Mojave desktop.) To demonstrate Stacks, let’s look at a messy desktop - I’ve deliberately thrown a bunch of files onto that beautiful Mojave wallpaper to show how Stacks can make this tidy. Stacks wants to make it easy for Mac users to keep their desktops tidy by automating file and folder collation. While some Mac users are very good about keeping their Mac desktop clean and tidy, others use it like a real desktop - a place to drop files and folders before figuring out where they need to be placed permanently.

Today’s guide details Stacks, a new user interface feature to organize files on the Mac desktop. A Guide to Quick Actions in macOS Mojave.

