Activity Window: how to use and organise

Hi,
I’m a relatively new user of Gnome (Fedora Bluefin, Framework laptop). I’ve installed the menu-extension to have a “normal” menu. But I’m willing to use Gnome as intended, and to learn to use the activity window.
As it is now, I don’t understand it on a laptop. Maybe on a touchscreen it’s useful to have those big icons, but why on a regular computer?
Is there a way to auto-organise your applications, like in the menu? Maybe I can do that myself, but that would be an endless job.
Or do I misunderstand the concept?

To clarify: my most-used apps are in the dock. I don’t use Inkscape often, for instance, so I don’t have it there. Going to the activity window, I would have to search it between the other apps (it’s alphabetical, I know, but it’s not intuitive enough for me). I could type "I… n… k… " till it show up. All that works, but going to menu>graphic>inkscape feels a lot easier.

Tips?

How I open apps: I have two or tree apps pinned in the dock (File Manager, Browser etc.). For most apps, I just hit the super button, type a few characters (for example “ink” for Inkscape) and hit enter. It is very fast that I can’t even see everything in the screen during that process. I don’t know and don’t want to know which apps are located where in the menu. Try it, it may not fell intuitive at first, but once you get used to it, it’s super convenient. The dock and menu is mostly useless for me. I hardly use them.

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