Search apps
⌃⌘S opens a search palette over whatever you're doing. Results appear from the first letter: every matching app in your Applications folders, in a dock or not. Return opens it. That's the whole gesture.
Names that start with your letters rank first, then word starts, then the rest, so the app you meant is almost always the first row, one Return away.
The palette is also how apps get into your docks now. Hover a result and press the +, or hit ⌘↩: with one dock it pins straight in; with several, your docks appear by name and one click pins. ⌘1–⌘9 pin straight to that dock, no menu at all (⌘0 for the tenth).
Rows already pinned somewhere say so: a quiet pin mark, and the menu shows exactly which docks hold it.
The palette searches your Applications folders (system apps and your own), not just what you've pinned. The tool you use twice a year is as reachable as the one you live in, and neither needs a dock slot to earn it.
Esc behaves like it should: a filled field clears first, an empty one closes. No surprises under your fingers.
The chord works everywhere, the menu bar icon carries it too, and docksmith://search/toggle opens the palette from Raycast, BetterTouchTool or a Shortcut. Your muscle memory picks the door.
Seven days, the whole app. Ask the assistant for a free trial key (one e-mail address, no account and no card). If it earns its place, one payment keeps it: no subscription, no renewal.
Every 1.x update included. 14 days to change your mind, no reason needed.