Show Recent Items Per App with a Two-Fingered Double Tap in OS X
Oct 25, 2011 - 8 Comments
You can quickly see any apps recent items in Mac OS X Lion by using a two-fingered double-tap on that applications icon in the Dock.
This brings up a menu contained within Mission Control showing all of your recent items, and if you have currently opened items they will be displayed above the list. The trick also works on apps that are not currently open, allowing you to see recent items without launching that app.
This tip was sent in by one of our readers, who cautions that you will also see recent items you may have forgotten about or don’t intend on being visible. Thanks for the tip Nilesh!
i guess it is the same as App Expose in any app which you have currently open, for me it is four fingers down. BTW your site rocks!
The trick won’t work on my Mac Pro with a Magic mouse.
It should work on the Magic Mouse with a double-tap in the center
I wantet it to work… double-tapped entire mouse with no result …
Can you, or anyone confirm this works on a Magic mouse?
Ahh, yet another step toward the “phasing out the magic mouse” direction… darn.
It works both with a two-fingered double-tap or a four-fingered down movements, unfortunately only a restrict set of applications has this (E.g., Preview, VLC).
Many apps never show recents like Photoshop, Chrome, Safari, iTunes, Word.
It’s the problem with lion, many of the new features are no there yet for every application.. Another example is the look-up in dictionary movement.. three-fingered double-tap on a word to look it up.. Works great on Preview, Mail or Safari, but not on Adobe Acrobat or Word…
How do I get it to stop this? I don’t want my icons lite up anymore. Please help
Hello! This doesn´t work with Numbers on my Mac. Why?