Start menu customization

Pinned apps, recommended/recent toggles, and bootstrapping from your Dock.

Start menu customization

Start works best when it stays curated. The goal isn’t “pin everything” - it’s “pin the few things you want without thinking”.

This page covers the parts that actually change how Start feels:

  • what appears in Start (pins vs sections)
  • how to build and maintain a pinned list
  • how Start and Taskbar pins relate

Pinned apps (the core)

Pinned apps are shared between Taskbar and Start.

Good defaults:

  • Keep your top 6 pinned (Start’s dashboard highlights them as “Essential Apps”).
  • Keep your “sometimes apps” out of pins and rely on Search instead.

Search: Search

Managing pins (the practical ways)

You can manage pins from multiple places, depending on what’s faster in the moment:

From the taskbar / Start

  • Right‑click an app → pin/unpin (and other app actions).
  • Drag to reorder to match your muscle memory.

From Settings (bulk management)

In Settings you can do “structural” work:

  • Add app (pick something that isn’t currently pinned)
  • Reset from Dock (bootstrap pins from your existing Dock setup)
  • Clear all (start clean)
  • Reorder with drag-and-drop (or the move buttons)

If you’re setting up Sulguni on a new Mac, “Reset from Dock” is usually the fastest starting point.

Recommended & Recent (optional)

Some setups include extra Start sections like Recommended and Recent files. They’re meant for discovery, but they also add noise.

Rules of thumb:

  • If you want Start to feel like a control panel → keep it “pins-first”.
  • If you like “what did I just touch?” → enable Recent.

Keep it clean (a maintenance habit)

Once a week (takes 30 seconds):

  1. Unpin anything you haven’t opened recently.
  2. Move your current top 3 to the first positions.
  3. If a pin is “temporary”, don’t let it become permanent by accident.

Next steps