# 787: Revisiting Our Mac Menu Bars ![[Assets/6c887a48a01985c9f3b817c9231e8d0f_MD5.jpg]] ## Metadata - Author: [[Mac Power Users]] - Full Title: 787: Revisiting Our Mac Menu Bars - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/3475ca3e-6f39-41fc-817c-7de6ba848631 ## Highlights - **Menu Bar Organization** - Hold down the command key and drag menu bar items to rearrange them. - Group related items together for better spatial awareness and accessibility. Transcript: Stephen Hackett Parties, that may not land in the same place every time you start up your Mac or you log in. Or maybe something updates, and then it gets moved to the end of the list. That, I think, has been a complaint for a long time. The menu bar is not like the dock like the dock like my icons don't move right like they i've put them in the order i want them and if slack updates it's not like slack gets moved to the end Of the list and the mini bar can be a little more fluid than that uh so yeah that command key trick is is an important one yeah And it's a little squirrely, but it's worth spending time getting David Sparks Things where they want to be with spatial awareness. You know, like I know where the green flow icon is generally my menu bar. So I know exactly where to look or when I need to access a menu bar tool, I usually know where they are. So just to share a little bit of mine, I do groupings, like usually starting from the right side, moving over, I've got some of the key Apple stuff. Then I've got like calendar and appointment stuff and like time tracking. Then I've got like a group of like key tools, notions, screen flow, things like that. Then I've got a grouping of like writing related tools grammarly day one yeah so i just go through and i kind of put them together i have a little ai grouping and then then towards the end I just get the stuff that is truly a reference and i don't need very often the the more you are like that the more you're going to get pushed to the far left because um when you have a lot of Apps in the menu bar and apps start loading up, you lose some of those because they ([Time 0:10:55](https://share.snipd.com/snip/c67357ad-e306-4de4-ad26-f3da4cdf39b0))