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Distractions

Ok, so I'm new.
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New to Macs. New to GTD. New to 43 folders. New to Macbreak. New.

I have really loved all the anti-distraction videos and posts. I've got Quicksilver now, and Menu shade, and have a pure black desktop. My dock is hidden. Between being a stay-at-home Dad, Alzheimer's caregiver and online student, I need to do eveything I can to limit distractions.

I've long been a fan of control-tab, now command-tab. I want to find a way to hide apps I don't need from the dock or finder bezel (ie. hardware growler, menuShade) . I haven't found any way to do this.

Any ideas?

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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As far as the cmd-tab...

As far as the cmd-tab bezel goes, I use Liteswitch X which allows me to specify applications I don't want to appear in the bezel. (I use it to hide the Finder because I use PathFinder, and to hide Quicksilver because I invoke that with a keypress instead of switching to it.)

As far as the dock goes, well, I just auto-hide the whole thing!

 
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