Mayk

Intensive use of the computer can make it become a crowded place pretty quickly. This includes your desktop and taskbar, thus making it a time-consuming operation to just find the items you want to launch. Luckily, there are various specialized applications like Mayk which can help place all items of interest in a cool launcher.

It usually stays minimized to the tray area, with a double-click operation bringing up the launcher. Although there’s no option to assign a hotkey command to bring up the launcher even faster, the window does hide to a selectable side of the screen so that it glides into visible space on mouseover.

You mostly work with the launcher window, which is split into six tabs, each containing nine slots to fill in accordingly. Although this might feel a bit limited, the application makes it possible to also add folders to somewhat expand navigation possibilities. Unfortunately, there’s no option to create multiple profiles to group items in different categories, such as work, leisure, and entertainment.

Adding items to the list is done in several ways, taking little effort. On the one hand, you can just drop a file or folder over the desired slot, while the other method lets you pick items through either file or folder browse dialogs. File names and icons appear in corresponding boxes.

Tabs can be renamed for easy identification of your groups. Note that the application isn’t set to run with Windows by default, but there is such an option in the settings panel just to have everything ready by the time you reach the desktop.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that Mayk is a reliable launcher to help you keep your desktop a clean space, while also being able to launch items of interest with very little effort. Although it comes with a somewhat limited number of slots, there’s a great deal of flexibility in the type of items to add.