One of the problems with having a todo list bigger than the the Eiffel Tower is that sometimes I have more applications open than my computer would like to handle. To clean my desktop I could use a Logoff / Login sequence, but that would interfere with Dropbox synchronization and therefore I opted to use an AppleScript that closes all windowed applications.
The close all script that I use is the following:
-- Insert Date and Time into your documents -- @2010 David Rodrigues set exclude to {"Finder"} tell application "System Events" set end of exclude to displayed name of (info for (path to frontmost application)) set app_list to name of every process whose visible is true end tell repeat with this_app in app_list if this_app is not in exclude then tell application this_app activate quit end tell end if end repeat |
Remember, put the script in the ~/Library/Scripts folder (don’t forget to activate the “Show Script…” in Apple Script Utility
I now have a much cleaner desktop…