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Switch modes with the pill, the menu bar or shortcuts

Change HeyDock’s mode from the dock’s pill, the menu bar, or ⌥1 to ⌥9, and let HeyDock suggest a switch when you open another mode’s app.

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Three ways to switch

  • The pill: click a mode at the start of the dock.
  • The menu bar: click the HeyDock icon and pick a mode.
  • Shortcuts: ⌥1 for your first mode, ⌥2 for the second, up to ⌥9. Change the modifier or turn them off in Settings › General › Shortcuts.

Outside Focus, switching is instant. During Focus, modes with an entry delay make you wait; press again to cut 3 seconds off.

Suggestions

When the first thing you open, or something you stay on for 20 seconds, belongs to another mode, HeyDock offers to switch, with Switch and Not now. It also suggests a meeting mode two minutes before a video call. Suggestions are quiet during Focus and never move you into a mode with a wait or budget.

Tidy up when switching

Turn on Tidy up when switching in Settings › Dock to hide the other modes’ open apps on a switch and bring back this mode’s. Nothing is quit.

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Create and edit modes in HeyDock

Add, rename, reorder and delete modes, pick a symbol and colour, add apps and allowed sites, and set each mode’s wait and daily budget.

Use Focus and the Stay-or-switch gate

Start Focus for 25 minutes, an hour or until you stop, choose how hard the gate pushes back, and use Stay, Allow once and Add to mode.

Set up HeyDock in two minutes

Pick your first mode templates, see how the dock works, and choose whether to replace the macOS Dock or keep both.

Still stuck? Email support@heydock.app with your macOS version and HeyDock version, or see Support.