diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index fd52f22..26b94e0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "testresult",
  "thiserror",
  "yaml-rust",
+ "yaml-split",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1224,3 +1225,12 @@ checksum = "56c1936c4cc7a1c9ab21a1ebb602eb942ba868cbd44a99cb7cdc5892335e1c85"
 dependencies = [
  "linked-hash-map",
 ]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "yaml-split"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9dab2bfe3b9aa09e8424e0e5139526c6a3857c4bd334d66b0453a357dd80fc58"
+dependencies = [
+ "thiserror",
+]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c3d7da5..126f7b8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ shadow-rs = { version = "0.35.0", default-features = false }
 sysinfo = "0.31.4"
 thiserror = "1.0.63"
 yaml-rust = "0.4.5"
+yaml-split = "0.4.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 testresult = "0.4.1"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7dc2ef9..1e6ba58 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -88,6 +88,16 @@ data:
 
     # Export photos in vCards
     ABIncludePhotosInVCard: true
+---
+# Multiple yaml docs in single file.
+description: Dock
+
+kill: ["Dock"]
+
+data:
+  # Automatically hide and show the Dock
+  com.apple.dock:
+    autohide: true
 ```
 
 You may also use full paths to `.plist` files instead of domain names. This is the only way to set values in /Library/Preferences/.
diff --git a/src/cmd/apply.rs b/src/cmd/apply.rs
index a80f9f9..12beb45 100644
--- a/src/cmd/apply.rs
+++ b/src/cmd/apply.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::io::{BufReader, BufRead};
 use std::ffi::OsStr;
-use std::fs;
+use std::fs::File;
 use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;
 
 use camino::Utf8PathBuf;
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@ use colored::Colorize;
 use log::{debug, error, trace};
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use sysinfo::{Signal, System};
+use yaml_split::DocumentIterator;
 
 use crate::defaults::{write_defaults_values, MacOSDefaults};
 use crate::errors::DefaultsError as E;
@@ -81,14 +83,30 @@ struct DefaultsConfig(HashMap<String, HashMap<String, plist::Value>>);
 
 pub fn apply_defaults(path: &Utf8PathBuf) -> Result<bool> {
     //
-    let s = fs::read_to_string(path).map_err(|e| E::FileRead {
+    let file = File::open(path).map_err(|e| E::FileRead {
         path: path.to_owned(),
         source: e,
     })?;
 
-    trace!("Task '{path}' contents: <<<{s}>>>");
+    let reader = BufReader::new(file);
 
-    let config: MacOSDefaults = serde_yaml::from_str(&s).map_err(|e| E::InvalidYaml {
+    trace!("Processing YAML documents from file: {}", path);
+
+    let mut any_changed = false;
+
+    for doc in DocumentIterator::new(reader) {
+        let doc = doc.map_err(|e| E::YamlSplitError {
+            path: path.to_owned(),
+            source: e,
+        })?;
+        any_changed |= process_yaml_document(doc.as_bytes(), path)?;
+    }
+
+    Ok(any_changed)
+}
+
+fn process_yaml_document(doc: impl BufRead, path: &Utf8PathBuf) -> Result<bool> {
+    let config: MacOSDefaults = serde_yaml::from_reader(doc).map_err(|e| E::InvalidYaml {
         path: path.to_owned(),
         source: e,
     })?;
@@ -104,26 +122,20 @@ pub fn apply_defaults(path: &Utf8PathBuf) -> Result<bool> {
         println!("  {} {}", "▶".green(), description.bold().white());
     }
 
-    let (passed, errors): (Vec<_>, Vec<_>) = defaults
-        .0
+    let results: Vec<_> = defaults.0
         .into_iter()
         .map(|(domain, prefs)| write_defaults_values(&domain, prefs, config.current_host))
-        .partition(Result::is_ok);
-
-    debug!("Passed: {passed:?}");
-    debug!("Errored: {errors:?}");
+        .collect();
 
-    let changed = passed.iter().flatten().any(|&value| value);
+    let (passed, errors): (Vec<_>, Vec<_>) = results.into_iter().partition(Result::is_ok);
 
-    let errors: Vec<_> = errors.into_iter().map(Result::unwrap_err).collect();
-    let passed: Vec<_> = passed.into_iter().map(Result::unwrap).collect();
+    let changed = passed.iter().any(|r| *r.as_ref().unwrap());
 
-    if changed && passed.into_iter().any(|r| r) {
+    if changed {
         if let Some(kill) = config.kill {
-            for process in &kill {
+            for process in kill {
                 println!("    {} Restarting: {}", "✖".blue(), process.white());
-
-                kill_process_by_name(process);
+                kill_process_by_name(&process);
             }
         }
     }
@@ -138,7 +150,9 @@ pub fn apply_defaults(path: &Utf8PathBuf) -> Result<bool> {
 
     let mut errors_iter = errors.into_iter();
 
-    Err(errors_iter.next().ok_or(E::UnexpectedNone)?).wrap_err_with(|| eyre!("{:?}", errors_iter.collect::<Vec<_>>()))
+    let first_error = errors_iter.next().ok_or(E::UnexpectedNone)??;
+
+    Err(eyre!("{:?}", errors_iter.collect::<Vec<_>>())).wrap_err(first_error)
 }
 
 fn kill_process_by_name(name: &str) {
diff --git a/src/errors.rs b/src/errors.rs
index 403cf86..7f5c2c7 100644
--- a/src/errors.rs
+++ b/src/errors.rs
@@ -47,4 +47,7 @@ pub enum DefaultsError {
 
     #[error("Eyre error.")]
     EyreError { source: color_eyre::Report },
+
+    #[error("failed to split YAML file {path}")]
+    YamlSplitError { path: Utf8PathBuf, source: yaml_split::YamlSplitError },
 }