[mdasen]

I love the idea of putting things in the menu bar, but it seems like the apps still have to be taking up space in the dock. I can't have WhatsApp, Signal, FB Messenger, Slack, Discord, etc. tucked away running in the background and popping up in my menu bar when there's something to respond to. I have to have them crowding my dock with half a dozen icons.

Is there a way to hide the items from the dock and just have them in the menu bar?

[gwbas1c]

When I did Mac programming a decade ago, there was an app metadata flag, inside the bundle, to hide the icon in the Dock.

Now that apps are digitally signed, it might require a few more hoops to manipulate the app. (Your Mac protects you from running tampered apps.)