Beyond the workspaces, the apps, and the keyboard shortcuts, Dockside has a few ideas about how your day should work.
You switch between whole projects during the day, not just apps. Workspace Profiles makes the one you're in unmistakable at a glance, before you have to think about it.
Each workspace gets its own accent color, which tints the titlebar and the floating content frame when you're inside it. You always know which world you're in. Workspaces you haven't checked in a while wear a soft ring on their sidebar icon, fading with time. Hover any workspace icon and you'll see what's new there, when you last visited, and how much time you've spent today.
Hit ⌘⇧N. Every unread badge, across every app and every workspace, slides into one drawer. A single number at the top counts down as you work through them. The relief is immediate.
No app-by-app trudge. No tab-by-tab opening. Three actions per app (Done, Later, or Quiet) and you're through. The source app's badge stays untouched. This is Dockside's layer, not the app's.
When you quit Dockside, it asks where you left off. When you open it the next morning, it shows you where you were. The unfinished isn't piling up in your head. It's waiting on the screen, exactly where you left it.
A quick summary captures where you were, what was open, and a single line for any note you want to leave for tomorrow's you. Open Dockside the next morning and it's all right there, along with a breakdown of where your time went yesterday, by workspace and by app.
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Work and personal accounts of the same app, side by side in one workspace. Separate sessions, separate badges, separate logins. No incognito windows, no profile switching, no signing out to sign back in.
Start a session and the sidebar dims. A timer runs, your current app gets the full screen, and distractions fall away. No site blockers, no productivity theater. Just focus, built right in.
Save any two apps as a named Dock that lives in the sidebar. "Research" might be your notes app plus a browser tab. "Client A" might be their Slack plus their Linear. Open with one click.
One keystroke jumps you to any workspace, any app, or any page you've recently visited inside any app. Fuzzy search, full keyboard, no mouse needed.
Pull up a reference next to your work. Chat on the left, doc on the right. Resize the divider. Stay in one workspace the whole time. No window management required.
One click starts a clean session that forgets everything when you close it. The whole interface shifts to red so you always know you're in it. No history, no cookies, no trace.
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Search within any app the way you'd search in a browser. With keyboard navigation through matches.
Press the ? key to bring up every Dockside keyboard shortcut in a clean reference card. No menu diving.
Two themes you can switch between. Or set it to follow your Mac's appearance.
New versions install quietly while you work. You can toggle the behavior if you'd rather choose your moment.
Copy a workspace as a shareable link. Anyone with Dockside can import it with one click.
Get notified even when Dockside is in the background. Click a notification to land on the exact message, not just the app.
Every app, every workspace, summed up on the Dock icon. One badge tells you everything that's waiting.
Browse hundreds by name or category, each with its real icon. Add any other web app yourself.
Features are nice in isolation. The point is how they stack into a working day.
Open Dockside and your Work workspace loads as you left it: every app signed in, yesterday's note waiting. Hit ⌘⇧N and clear every unread badge in under a minute. Zero tabs reopened, zero passwords typed.
Jump to your side project. A different Gmail, GitHub, and Stripe are already signed in, with nothing from work bleeding through. Start a 25-minute focus session and the sidebar dims while you ship.
Switch into Personal for banking, calendar, and travel, with work nowhere in sight. When you quit, leave a one-line note for tomorrow. Dockside reopens right where you left off, every app still signed in.
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