I live in a small, cramped apartment in a big city. For each item I bring into my house, I feel like I need to throw something out to keep clutter from piling up. In some ways, my battle with my MacBook's limited screen real estate mirrors my space issues at home. As a tech journalist, installing apps is a daily occurrence for me, which means an overcrowded dock or menu bar.

Luckily, I've largely solved my menu bar issues on my Mac, but my dock is still an area of concern. It's full of apps, and even though I've moved it around a few times, it still takes up too much space on my 13-inch laptop screen. It's gotten so bad that I've now switched to automatically hiding the dock (under System Settings > Desktop & Dock). There's just one problem—I still need to be able to access the apps I was

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