Longtime Mac users may recall a handy old shareware application for the Classic Macintosh called Stapler, which essentially helped manage projects by grouping a series of apps and documents into a single document that when opened would then launch all of those documents and their respective programs. Much easier than digging around in your file system and individually launching apps and files. And guess what? Stapler has returned, from a new developer, to modern MacOS!
Stapler for Mac is excellent for managing and organizing files related to a particular project. For example, let’s say you’re working on a redesign project and you’re using multiple files in Photoshop, projects in Canva, files in BBEdit, a few folders in Finder, and a group chat with Slack, with Stapler you can open all of those together in one fell swoop by launching a single Stapler document. Cool right?
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The developer describes Stapler as follows:
“The idea is you set up a Stapler Document per project containing related apps, files, folders, etc.
Then you can open them all at once by launching the single document.
Each document contains a list of aliases that can be managed, inspected, launched using the app.
Task-based computing.”
Stapler is a super simple to use app, just launch it to create a new project, use the “Items” menu to add or remove apps and documents, save your stapled project, and you’re ready to access and launch all of those related files with one single action. Easy peasy!
If you’re interested, you can read more from the developer here, cheers to 512pixels for pointing out the app.