Use ‘Folder Peek’ to Turn Your Mac’s Menu Into an App Launcher [Video]

Your Mac’s menu bar can be home to a host of nifty utilities. From managing your calendar to adding a virtual sticky note, there’s a great menu bar tool for almost everything. I recently discovered another useful app called Folder Peek, which lets you place any folder from your Mac on the menu bar. You can use this in many different ways, but my favorite is using it as an app launcher.

Using Folder Peek as an app launcher

Once you’ve installed Folder Peek on your Mac (simply click “Get” while viewing it in the App Store), choose which folder you want to add to your menu bar. Here’s a fun trick: if you choose the Applications folder, clicking on it will display all the apps installed on your Mac, which you can click again to launch. This is perfect if you want to declutter your dock, and it can also be faster than launching an app via Spotlight …