Oh! I wish I'd seen your call for tips & tricks! There are two I would've suggested: First, press cmd opt h to hide everything except the current window. Bam! Instant clean workspace! Second (and almost better IMO), right-click any file in Finder and get info. Most file types show a "Stationery pad" option near the bottom. Check that box, and from then on, when you double click the file, Finder will automatically duplicate it and then open the copy. Boom! Instant template! Love the channel, keep up the good work, Quinn! - Russ
George4All you could try turning it into a hackintosh. Doesn’t hurt to try. If you want a cheap Mac there’s a bunch on eBay just be careful and check the main board for water damage as soon as you get it.
@@raulaguilar Yeah, that's probably the biggest tip of all: keyboard shortcuts and gestures are WAY more consistent on the Mac than on Windows (almost certainly due to Apple's actually publishing Human Interface Guidelines for developers to follow). Want to open a file from an app? Command O. From Finder? Also Command O, not Enter/Return. (Return in Finder lets you rename a file.) Want to resize something in your desktop publisher? Hold down Option to keep it centered while resizing. Want to resize a window? Hold down Option to keep it centered while resizing. In fact, you can hold down Option while clicking any system-provided menu or menubar icon to see a list of alternate behaviors, ditto for many if not most third-party provided menus and menubar icons. I freaking love this OS. Always have.
If you select an action for a Hot Corner while holding Option key pressed, that action will only fire if you press Option key and move your cursor to the corresponding corner - helps to avoid unwanted triggers!
*Cheat sheet:* AppCleaner = great app for uninstalling applications (free) MacUpdater = managing updating for all non-appstore apps Quicklook: spacebar = render quick view on a file hold spacebar = quick pop for quicklook Screenshots: shift + cmd + 3 = screenshot whole desktop shift + cmd + 4 = screenshot selection (hold spacebar to resize window or option key to resize all corner) shift + ctrl + cmd + 4 = save screenshot to clipboard Sounds: hold down shift to play or not play volume clicks when adjusting the volume shift + option + volume (or brightness) keys to modulate in 1/4 increments Finder: option key = copy file when dragging it in finder option + cmd = create shortcut to file when dragging it Emojis: ctrl + cmd + space = emoji picker Other: shift + option + cmd + v = past text and use destination formatting ctrl + t = shift the previous letters in text fields / documents shift + cmd + t = open previous closed window cmd + space = open spotlight spotlight can do math in spotlight and other computations + conversion (weight, currency, etc.) hot corners - find under screensaver settings right click twice on RUclips to watch picture in picture Do not disturb Option + click Notification Center = do not disturb switching Window tricks: cmd + q = quit application cmd + n = new window cmd + h = hide window (different from minimising) cmd + m = minimise window
Two tips I haven't seen in your vids yet, that may be common knowledge for some, but which I've shown to long-time Mac users who were surprised: 1) In a text field, Fn+Delete removes characters AFTER the cursor 2) Holding Option before clicking on Menu Bar Status icons either/both provides more options and/or shows deeper contextual info. E.g. Option+click the WiFi icon to see your antenna's MAC address, the router IP, current channel, etc. - and hover the mouse over other SSIDs to see similar info. (You don't need to keep Option held down the whole time, just be sure to hold it before clicking the icon and then you can release the key.)
Tips learned: 3:23 Double Right Click for PinP. 4:05 Hold Space (this will take some getting used to) 6:02 hold space to move 6:38 FINALLY PrintScreen in Windows! 8:05 Incremental increase... But they keyboard brightness should instead move faster. 10:15 Try PERCENTAGE %... NEVER WORKS! it just subtracts instead 12:34 use CMD+W on my MX Master mouse as a shortcut... best thing ever for closing windows.
How could you forget the command + L to highlight the weblink so that you can quickly copy the website. I use this a lot when i'm citing sources for a school project. Hope this helps.
@@isaackvasager9957 Cmd-Tab, Cmd-~, Mission Control, Zoom button, choices of how to minimise... it goes on... do you mean that they don't have window management tools apart from the ones you forget exist?
Yes productivity lives on the mac, all of you should also discover Apple Script. IIt’s unfortunately dying because so few have discovered it. I used it to automate work reporting from a calendar at the end of a month and send it of to the boss. I’ve used it to automatically download a pdf file from a rss subscription and load it into iTunes to automatically load the pdf file to my phone. It was also able to select the correct file for me as they were 5 different types and with Braille in case some one had such a reader. Apple script is so useful, but gets so little love. For people in some editing workflow folder actions are superior. Just drop your files in a folder and have them automatically processed in almost any app. You can even have files coming in from internet to be automatically processed. We had that in 2000 automatic image processing in photoshop. Webpage updates, pictures and info from our customers. E.g. car sellers and brokers. All based on AppleScript. They loaded up some pictures wrote some text in a form and uploaded. One could just watch the computers doing your work for you. One can have it done hidden also, but just in case we let be so it could be monitored. This was even before mac os x.
I think one of my favorites is the file-location drag&drop that works in system open dialogs. It works like this: 1) say you want to upload a picture to a website that doesn't support drag and drop. So you click the 'upload' button 2) now normally you'd have to click thru to the file system to find the file BUT, if you just drag and drop the file INTO the open dialog, it won't copy the file but it select it within the dialog This works in ANY 'open dialog' for any program which is super helpful! I really like when I need to open a downloaded file since I always have a lot within my downloads folder, I just drag it from the dock (the downloads stack) into the open dialog and boom! No need to search for it!
A million thumbs up for the Shift Option Command V to paste trick! I can not tell you how much time's been wasted by trying to find a 'remove formatting' option or manually set the size, font and remove background color etc.
I'm considering buying new M1 macbook Pro, hence watching this video again after a year 🙃 But the shortcuts seem unnecessary complicated as compared to windows. In windows most shortcuts only use 2 keys win/alt/ctrl + other key. In Mac it feels way more complicated.
This one is my favorite and I discovered it and I feel so proud when I can share it. I hope you see this cause it fuckin rocks. The setup - You're on a web page and want to upload something, but it doesn't have a fancy thing like youtube or google drive that just says "Drag a file here to upload!". No it's one of those legacy style functions, like when you're trying to upload a resume to a job website or something annoying. Press "select file" and there will be a finder window of some sort pop up so you can navigate to the file on your computer, then you can press "upload" or "okay" or what ever, then you're back to the screen before and continue with your day. That moment where you have to navigate to the file can be immensly annoying, especially if it's a file thats buried in a deep file structure, or even just on your desktop, but say it's a restricted window of somekind and isn't showing your favorites, or perhaps you have to upload many little files frequently to this website, or maybe you just saved a file in a specific spot, but can't exactly remember the file tree, but you have the location open right now and can SEE THE FILE. You just now have to go inspect it, and kinda figure out where it is located, and click through to get there. SUPER ANNOYING. The solution, is if you have the file location open already, you can just drag the file onto the popup finder window and that will auto navigate to that file, and you can then just hit upload. So on the webpage, you hit "select file", the finder window pops up, you drag onto THAT window, and it will then be selected! (Works for multiple files selected too, if the website allows it!) This has honestly saved me a ton of frustration and I highly recommend anyone reading this try it out!
1. To quickly zoom in on part of the screen, go to Settings / Accessibility / Zoom and enable "use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom". Now just hold down the modifier key and scroll up or down to zoom in or out of the screen. Its super fast and zooms the entire screen, not just the specific window. 2. BetterTouchTool is awesome for extra mouse/trackpad gestures. For the trackpad i'm using only 2 gestures: 5 finger tap to maximize window, 3 finger tap for middle click. So i can quickly open a link in a new tab in safari using 3 tap on the link. 3. In the Preview app, under the markup toolbar you can actually create a signature by writing it on a paper and holding it in front of your isight camera. Once scanned, you can insert this into any document, pdf too. You can even change the color of the signature. 4. Holding down option while clicking on the bluetooth, wifi or volume at the status bar will show more info 5. Select multiple images in finder and press option + space to start an automatic slideshow
Here are some "expansions" on shortcuts that were mentioned: 5:38 - Press Cmd+Shift+5 to access more options when screenshotting. There you can select which folder you want the 12:01 - (This is only for Google Chrome). Cmd + Q sits dangerously close to the equally useful Cmd+W. If you want to protect yourself from accidental Cmd+Q you can enable "Long press" for that shortcut. Has saved me a bunch of times.
Honestly hot corners is my favorite OSX feature. I'm kinda of amazed more people don't use it. My setup: Lower left: Mission Control Top left: Application windows Top right: Desktop Bottom right: Launch pad (I know spotlight can be faster, but that's only if you remember the name of the one random application you need)
Same here aha. And they even get frustrated when then use your computer and throw the mouse all around, not understanding why the windows went away aha. But it's such a handy trick!
Wish I'd seen your Tweet about this. I'm primarily a Windows user, but at work I have to use a Mac. I hated MacOS' window management and instead found a free app called 'Spectacle' which allows me to quickly throw windows from one screen to another, left side of the screen, right side, full screen, top-right, top-left, etc. all through simple keyboard shortcuts. (Option+Cmd+Left Arrow for left half, Opt+Cmd+F for full screen, etc.). I do a lot of data wrangling between folders and servers for work so being able to quickly throw windows around my workspace is important. This has saved me so much time!
0:42 I've been using Alfred for months but somehow didn't know you could drag things out of it like you did there. You should make a video dedicated to using Alfred with tips, tricks & alfred workflows you use.
9:00 That cmd+t "letter switcher" is a pretty interesting one! Not that I would use that one in particular, but what really would be useful is a shortcut to change a capital letter to a small one, instead of deleting and retyping it when you decided to add something to the front of the sentence. Is it possible to find the script behind this command somehow?
Back in the late 90's I had a friend who was an Apple person. They were rare then, here. I asked her why Apple and she said: "it's so much more intuitive, for instance, if you want to remove something you just drag it to the trash". I told her that Windows did the same thing and then she was out of options, haha. I tried the same thing with other Mac people and it turned out they always thought Apples could do things that Windows couldn't. I did end up buying a Mac just to see if I could figure out why on earth you'd want one. I remained a Windows person as it just didn't work for me. Now, I am not telling anyone what to use, it's up to you obviously. But in comparisons it always seems like Windows almost always is capable of doing the same things as MacOS, plus a lot of other stuff. So when this video popped up I figured I'd give it all a try to see if my theory is correct, here goes! 1:00: Windows does this without an app 1:23: As opposed to what? Apps tend to auto update on my PC? 2:00: What I cannot handle is not being able to maximize windows easily. Makes the MacOS desktop seem really cluttered to me. I maximize everything all the time and just use alt/tab and the task bar (something else I couldn't miss) to switch and keep an overview. 3:30 With Windows Key & Arrow keys you can move windows around. If I go windowskey & right to move the window ot the right side of my screen, and then up, it will snap to the top right corner. I can then open another window and drag that to the left side of the screen, it will 'maximize' just to the left and take up 50% of the screen width. Goes with every app and window. RUclips will automatically adapt its video size. It's just a video window obvoiusly so it's not as aesthetically pleasing, but it does work in every single bit of software you may want to use. 4:05: Useful! Using Irfanview myself so it opens pretty much instantly, making a preview slighlty unneccesary, but I do see how this could be useful. 4:41: Works in Windows too except that you get a window asking how you want to psted it (HTML, unformatted text, etc.) 5:00: Another thing that works in Windows as well, just slightly better because you can use the arrow keys. Takes way less time. Although that might work in MacOS as well. That said, Windows does allow quarter screen windows, windows that stretch vertically but keep their width and so forth. 5:53: PrtScrn 5:57: Windows & Shift & S 6:20: ALT & PrtScrn on selected Window 6:58: Windows does that anyway, which makes way more sense because usually you take a screenshot so you can paste it somewhere to send it to someone or put it in a document. And if for some reason you actually do want to save it well, you just paste it in an image editor. It's one extra step if you want to do a full screen screenshot but you'll find that in most cases, you won't do that at all. You'll just paste it to where you want it to go. 7:40: Back in the day windows would only make a sound if you changed your volume through the system tray icon, not through the keys on your keyboard (or, in my case, MX Master. Ideal to have volume controls there). Nowadays it's silent all around. That said, why would you want it to go 'bip bip'? You usually adjust the volume while you are playing a video or music, and even if you want to make sure it's not too loud, you can just turn it down first and then adjust while playing, right? The bips never made a lot of sense to me. I do like what they did with the shift key though, it makes sense. 8:19: Windows does it in steps of 2 (0, 2, 4, 6, 8 etc. until 100). If you don't want that, just grab the bar that pops up with your mouse and move it manually. That way you'll be able to go in steps of one, or much quicker obviously. 8:39: Windows & Period 9:22: Why would you ever want to do that? :D. I mean, it's a MacOS only feature, haha. 10:08: Chapeau. Well done Apple, this is one I do miss on Windows. 10:20: Yup. Windows key, just start typing. Or, as I usually do. Windows key, type calc, enter. Brings up the calculator if you want to do more extensive calculating. Conversions work too but it does use bing. Works well, but not without the internet obviously. 11:19: Drag the file with the right mouse button. When you let it go it will give you a little context menu at exactly that location allowing you to copy, move or create a shortcut. CTRL & Drag also works, just creates a duplicate. ALT & Drag does the Alias. 11:59: Click notification center, click focus assist. Apple wins this one but in the end you still have to press two things. 12:40: Windows D for hide, windows M for minimize, ctrl & W for close window and, slightly counter-intuitive, Alt & F4 for closing software. I have Windows & D as one of my mouse shortcuts. Comments?
Glad that I have ramped up and learned a lot of these. New ones for today was CMD CTRL SHIFT V to paste without formatting, and a reminder that spotlight is a calculator + currency converter (although I mostly talk to my Google Assistant these days for that)
For those who don't like using Spaces for ergonomic reasons, you can assign shortcuts to each Space from the Keyboard section in the macOS settings. In the Shortcuts tab, click on mission control in the left panel, then unfold the mission control entry on the right panel. The shortcuts are labelled 'Switch to Desktop [X]' for each Space you want to switch to. I personnaly assign them to my numbers row plus one ore more modifiers. Using these shortcut it's pretty easy to switch to a Space, and you can even quickly move a window from your current Space to another one by clicking and maintaining on the window titlebar while using the switch shortcut. Really handy!
⌘+T to open a new tab. ⌘+⇪+N to open a private/incognito window. ⌘+⇪+W to close a window (as opposed to ⌘+W to close a single tab). For window management, I highly recommend Spectacle. For Screenshot & image management, try Pixdrop.
OMG. I've only been using Mac for like 5 years now and I didn't know any of these (except for like 2). Thank you for sharing these! I especially love the preview thing with the space bar, emoji pallet, and creating alias shortcut
A bunch of emacs text editor shortcuts work almost everywhere in macOS. That's where the ctrl+t comes from (it swaps the two characters around the cursor). There are some other emacs shortcuts I find super useful when I'm typing out a bunch of text and need to go back to make changes: ctrl+f acts as the right (forward) arrow ctrl+b as left (backward) arrow key ctrl+p as the up (previous line) arrow key ctrl+n as the down (next line) arrow key ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line or paragraph ctrl+e to go to the end of paragraph or line ctrl+d acts as the windows delete key that DELETES FORWARD unlike the mac delete which backspaces These all are super handy when you don't want to leave home-row and need to navigate around your text. (I never use CAPS LOCK so I just make it CTRL and it makes all these shortcuts super easy and comfortable to use)
As a single desktop user, I use hot corners differently. Instead of mission control, I set the bottom right corner to “exposé” show all windows, and bottom left corner to “exposé” show all of the current application’s windows. Super helpful if you have 10 documents open in a single app to see all of the documents at once and pick which one you want to use. Another tip, for screenshots you can use the command line to set a different default location for saving them. I have a screen shots folder on my desktop and have screenshots go there, instead of the desktop directly.
Some really good shortcut gems here. I got 2 new ones, specially the Emcas Keybinding Ctrl + T for transposing the last two letters. How about a more in depth set of text editing shortcuts like the Emacs Key Bindings? I do use a lot Ctrl + A to go to the start of the line, Ctrl + E to go to the end of the line, Ctrl + F to move the cursor forward or Ctrl + B to move backwards. Ctrl + P to go up one line Ctrl + N to go down one line, Ctrl + O to insert a line break after the cursor and keep the cursor in place. You could combine some of them with shift for selection like having the cursor in the middle of a line and do Shift + Ctrl + A and it will select all the way to the first letter, do Ctrl + K and cut the selected text, of if not selected it would cut till the end of the line and Ctrl + Y to paste the text back. There are quite a bunch that are usable and they work even in terminal where you can’t do easy text selection, or Option + Backspace to delete all the way to the start of the previous word. That one I use a lot, if I mistake a word instead of looking where I type it wrong, I just delete the whole thing and type the word again. Per example the word “tomorrow” if I mistake and typed “tomrrow ” (notice the usual space after typing a word) instead of doing Backspace Backspace Backspace Backspace Backspace .. O R R O W, I can just do Option + Backspace and just type “tomorrow” again, yes they are maybe more key strokes but it comes easier and faster if its a known word that you are used to type than to see where you mistake and how many backspaces you need to do and then the need of typing a broken part of a known word, so typing “tomorrow” again its easier than realizing where was the error and typing ORROW only which it doesn’t come naturally. So yeah, a Text Editing Tips video would be Epic!
I always learn something useful from macOS tip lists, there's just so much hidden stuff. Useful detail on Option-drag to copy files: notice that a green plus (+) symbol appears on the pointer while holding Option and dragging, indicating that it will copy and not move. This appears automatically if you are dragging between devices, such as from your desktop to a USB drive, copying by default. To force a cross-device drag to be a move and not copy, hold Command while dragging, causing the green plus to go away.
Here’s a couple of my favorites. On a laptop, or non-extended keyboard, pressing Command-Up/Down Arrows will scroll to the top/bottom of a window. Option-Up/Down Arrows will scroll one page up/down. And, Control-D will Forward Delete text.
So something kewl. You mentioned the little sounds that can be toggled on and off. And you mentioned that if you hold shift and option and change the volume in smaller increments. BUT if you just press shift while changing volume it will have the little sounds while you are holding shift!
Found this by mistake, Hold Option and tap the Volume or Brightness button and the Preference window for volume or bightness opens immediately, very quick.
If you want to know file size and/or change rights, you might press CMD+i. If you have a bunch of file selected it will open a window for each file! If you press CMD+ALT+i you will get one inspector window that tells you the total size of the files ☝🏼
3:15 ..you can get Netflix to do picture in picture .. when the media is playing in safari, but not in full screen as a separate window you can enable picture in picture
One of the advantages of multiple desktops is you can assign a major use app to that desktop and that one only. For example, I put iTunes and Mail on Dsk#6, Calibre on Dsk#2, Kindle on #3, TextWrangler and Sublime Text on #4. That way when I am editing an ePub and need to do mass changes or hundreds of line, I can find my text editors by swiping my 4 fingers across the trackpad. I also do a 4 fingers down to chose with desktop and/or see what's happening in the background, ie I can see the scrolling in a terminal doing a large compiling task without switching focus and see that it is still crunching away.
For those who like pressing the red button and the app actually quits like on windows you can use a small app called Red Quit which adds that functionality.
The screen shot to clipboard function is one of my favourites. Use it all the time. The duplicate with option drag also works in Pages. Macupdater is new for me. Thanks for the video.
You can do Command-Q while doing Command-Tab - also works for Command-H (hide). Also, you can drag a file, command-Tab into a different app, and pull the file into the application. Useful for dragging say a file from the Finder Desktop into a Mail window. Command-Option-H is `hide others` which I use a lot. Command-L highlights the URL in a browser.
Quick Tips: 1. If you open Activity Monitor, you can press cmd + 2, cmd + 3, cmd + 4 to get graphs for your CPU, GPU, and cores. Use the same shortcuts to close those windows. 2. If you want to select every other file in Finder (E.G. In an ABAB... file pattern and you only want to select the As) You can switch to the icon view mode (the leftmost option). Then minimize the Finder window so that there are only 2 files on each row. You can drag and select the left half for the As and the right half for the Bs. I used this when I found out there were duplicates of hundreds of files. This can also work on Windows.
I'm surprised you didn't mention shaking the cursor until it gets really big is a useful way to find it if you forgot where it is when for example returning to your computer and waking it up. Ever want to know the exact color of something on your screen? Use the digital color meter to get the value. Turn on the screen zoom and the shortcut for it. Now you can hold control and scroll to zoom in and out on things. Now you can see the tiny text on your giant iMac screen! Press command I when you've selected something in the finder to get the info panel. It can be very useful! With iPadOS and MacOS Catalina, you can now use your iPad as a second display or you can mirror the screen and use your Mac with the touchscreen! Ever wish you could get the functionality of the notification sound but the sound is off? Turn on the accessibility option to flash the screen when alerts would make a sound. You can print almost anything to a PDF file, which obviously makes a PDF.
Awesome video! I knew most of the simple ones, but some i never heard of! That screenshot taking without the actual screen shot will be a life saver for sure! :)
My tips: - Try Yabai Tiling Window manager. While you'll need to know your way around Terminal to get it installed, it's FANTASTIC. Think of Moom, Magnet, BBT, etc on steroids. It has the ability to auto tile your windows whenever one is opened. This allows you to never have floating or overlapping windows. With Yabai you can also instantly switch desktop spaces and bypass the animation/lag that OSX has by default. I hate using any Mac without Yabai now. Other smaller features include: Forcing certain window types to float, throwing windows between spaces/monitors with the keyboard, force certain windows to open in a layout. It's very powerful. Give it a look. - Keyboard Maestro. Literally a life saver. I have so many macros setup to speed up video editing as well as day to day tasks on OSX. You can create macros for just about anything you can think of. You are really only limited by your imagination. Give it a shot. One of the best pieces of software out there for a Mac.
I've been waiting for another Mac OS Video! Thank you @SnazzyLabs! Also to add to your picture in picture tip, hold down command when moving the picture in picture overlay and you can put it anywhere on the screen you like! You can also move Spotlight's search menu by holding Command down too!
Another cool tip for Picture in Picture. If you right click twice like you said, then after it's in picture in picture, you can hold the Command key and drag the video wherever you want on your screens. So you're not actually limited to the four corners where it tries to snap to :)
You can press Ctrl after pressing standard hotkeys for screenshot. If you hold Ctrl before final selection it will go to clipboard. Pressing 3 keys and than holding Ctrl before click is simpler than 4 at once :)
Cmd k to connect to server quickly, love it as it can hold a number of your most recent ones, really simple. Also you can configure the servers in login options so it connects when you log in. Love it so much
Since Dashboard is going away in macOS Catalina, I've started using a combination of the Today/Notifications slide-out and a second desktop to replicate its functionality. Mission Control is an easy way to switch from one to the other and if you're using a Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master, programming the thumb button makes it practically effortless. Also, I don't need to hold the space bar to peek at files. I just press (not hold) it to peek at the file, then use the mouse or cursor keys to peek at other files.
the one i learned most recently and now use all the time is cmd + < which is basically like cmd + tab but for within an application. so if you have multiple instances of lets say pages you can cycle though them
As someone that came from a German keyboard layout Windows to the Mac, i knew about the [Cmd]+[Q] shortcut very early. Because typing a @ on a German keyboard requires pressing [Alt Gr]+[Q]. And since Alt-Buttons are at the same position where Cmd is on a Mac keyboard you are doomed to close your browser every time you want to log in into your mail account... takes some time to get used to...
I’ve been an a bit of a hiatus for a bit due to my computer being barely function for me anymore. So I’m expecting my new 16” MBP this week and some of these tips are helpful as new or refresh. Thanks!
WIth "SHIFT CMD T" for a just-closed tab, you can keep pressing those keys and it'll re-open all closed tabs in reverse chronological order! So if you closed more than 1 tab by mistake, you can go back and get each closed one ... up to a point that works well, maybe back to 3 or 4 closed tabs? Then it might just get pesky if you just wanted the last tab, the 3rd last tab, and then the 6th last tab -- then you'll have some tabs open you don't want in between those.
I’m in Japan and that ` is to the right side of P key mixed with @ AND “ (yes 3 in 1 key) (not to confuse with " double quotes which is on the Shift + 2) And one more annoying thing, single Quote ‘ is actually Shift + 7. I seriously don’t know how Japan has some epic programmers with this annoying keysets all over the place. Just for fun lookup Japanese keyboard layout images.
another useful tip for MacBook pro: go to settings > Accessibility > mouse and trackpad > trackpad options : Here you can enable dragging with three fingers drag.. very useful with trackpad to drag windows around without right click just drag windows with three finger gesture :)
Picture in picture is available on pretty much any website. Hold down the speaker icon in the address bar and a popup menu appears. Select Enter Picture in Picture. Extra: When you drag the PiP around, it snaps into corners, but if you hold CMD while dragging, it will stay wherever you leave it. Useful when it's in the way .)
Hot corners are cool but they can also be really annoying if you use photoshop or autoCad. I like to shut down the monitor dragging the cursor to bottom left but sometimes when making a selection in photoshop, i drag the cursor to far on the screen and it ends to shut down messing up the selection frame
Couple tips I give to every Mac user I see, and the first things I do after a fresh install (so like maybe five times in the past decade) First, SMC Fan Control and Intel Power Gadget. Macs have atrocious thermal management, and will rather be quiet and burning then cool but with a noisy fan. Not only does this slow the system down if it decides to throttle rather than turning the fan up, but the excess heating will drastically lower the lifespan of your Mac. With SMC Fan Control, you can set the minimum fan speed to whatever you like, and it will never dip below that. Worried about the fan burning out? My MacBook Air spent its entire existence with the fan at 100%, ran faster than the MacBook Pros of some of my colleagues, and the fan lasted 4.5 years before the bearings got noisy. Spending 5 minutes replacing a $20 (official price) fan every 4.5 years beats your CPU/GPU cooking itself and killing a $500-700 board every three odd years. Power gadget will show you your current temp and CPU/GPU speed so you can keep track of throttling. I’ve actually switched to a fanless mac now, so instead, Intel power gadget and turbo boost disabled get the job done. Rather than have the speed ramp up, the temp go up, the speed drop down to compensate, and the processor slowly cool, before repeating the process (I couldn’t describe a better way to kill a processor if I tried), simply disabling turbo boost and staying on the base clock frequency will extend your devices life greatly, and help keep it cool. Another tip, while buying macs, is that sometimes a slower processor may actually be faster overall. Some macs can run full speed pretty well all the time if you lock their fan at 100%, but not all do. In some cases, it’s better to get a Mac with a slower overall processor that can run at 100% all the time without throttling than one that can reach a nice fast burst speed but will throttle even with the fan locked at 100%. For big render/compile jobs, the “slower” Mac can sometimes win. This isn’t the case for all models, but I’ve been saying it for years, so stuff like the i9 Pro doesn’t surprise me at all. Get a lower specced Mac with a lot of RAM if you really want, it’ll save the processor from doing memory compression. This is one way more RAM can actually make a Mac quite a bit faster. (Check activity monitor, and under memory look at “memory pressure”, this is the amount of time the processor is spending compressing/decompressing memory.) In some cases, a m3 with 16GB of RAM will run faster than an i5 with 8GB of RAM, this is before we even talk about thermals. Finally, going back to the top, the other thing I install on all MacBooks is a tool called NoSleep. While, in settings, “Prevent this Mac from automatically going to sleep when the screen is off” usually does the job for everyone, it doesn’t work when the device is unplugged. NoSleep is simple, in that when you shut your macs screen, it simply won’t sleep. That’s it. (It’s toggleable through the menu bar too) This can help if your macs running a long task and you want to shut the lid for whatever reason. Just be careful, leave it on and throw your Mac into a bag and you may come back to a very toasty Mac.) It’s a step up from the settings option because when it’s on, no matter what, your Mac simply will not sleep. For rendering, some say that you should leave your screen open when rendering because the hinge blocks the fan vents. This is half-true. When you close your Mac, the air vents will be redirected downwards, rather than up, and airflow will still be possible. This isn’t the problem. The problem is that MacBooks actually radiate a lot of heat up through the keyboard and case, and with the screen closed this will simply warm up the air trapped in between the keyboard and screen, possibly heating up the screen. This is the reason macs get hot when rendering closed. Because of this, I use NoSleep to force the Mac awake when I’m doing something, while leaving the lid open if I’m doing anything serious. You can also prop the lid up slightly, but I’ve found it’s better for the screen to be fully open in cases like this, when possible. Just some tips from someone who got fed up with wintel machines and now acts like a slavedriver to any MacBooks unfortunate enough to get within my grasp.
The shift+option brightness trick is handy when calibrating my monitors. My monitor calibration software asks me to set my luminance within a small range and I often can’t get it without that trick!
Nice tips. My favourite come from Preview i) signing PDF documents with your scanned signature and ii) the ability to merge and split PDF pages by simply dragging across the left hand side thumbnails
About Hot Corners: Triggering anything using the *top* corners proved inconvenient for me since I may need to interact with the menu bar without triggering anything else. My personal settings for Hot Corners are: 1) Mission Control on the *bottom* left (to see all windows in Exposé-style) and Desktop on the *bottom* right (to hide all windows and see an unobstructed desktop. Both of these "gesture" effects are reversible by just repeating them a second time. I've been using these settings for years now and "converted" most of the people I showed these to since they're so convenient IRL.
I learned several useful things. Thanks to you & your tipsters. I'm wondering does that alias tip work for more than documents? I have a bunch of sample (Wavs) libraries and software music instruments and they take up a lot of space. It'd be very handy if I could move them to another disk and just make aliases. Do you think this can be done? I'm learning quite a lot of new stuff in this video. I will save it. COMMAND W!!!! I have to close so many windows. This is the best Mac help video (non music making) that I've seen in awhile.
I like you channel for all the tips. My only comment is I wish you didn't go as fast I need to write them down, or you had them written for us to use later
PS for those that don't know, picture in picture option also works on linux (I assume windows as well). I might have enabled something before though not sure
You can also use the application switcher (cmd+T) to close applications. Just press tab until you get to the application you want to close, then press CMD+Q to quit it. (if you hold shift in application switcher while pressing on the tab, you go the other way)
HOT CORNERS YOU SAY: I use top left to bring forward all windows of the same app, bottom right to show the desktop (super useful to grab that screenshot you need to attach to the email you are writing) and use top right as well to expose all windows of all apps.
😁 It helped a lot I migrated from windows to Mac last year and it was the best thing I did, I don't suffer anymore. I haven't learned all the shortcuts yet, this video helped a lot in my productivity.
iPhone apps that shoot RAW plus JPG often use a different numbering system for the RAW file - making it awkward to match them up on the computer. I order them and then, in list view, sort by file type, select the RAW files and rename beginning with the first JPG number.
When you realize Gnome 40's revolutionary environment and window revealing system is basically mission control enabled with hot corners. As a Gnome 40 user I was shocked lol.
I would like to add to the space-bar Quickview trick. This also works in Open and Save dialog windows, not just in the Finder. I have found this to be far more useful than you would first think.
Oh! I wish I'd seen your call for tips & tricks! There are two I would've suggested:
First, press cmd opt h to hide everything except the current window. Bam! Instant clean workspace!
Second (and almost better IMO), right-click any file in Finder and get info. Most file types show a "Stationery pad" option near the bottom. Check that box, and from then on, when you double click the file, Finder will automatically duplicate it and then open the copy. Boom! Instant template!
Love the channel, keep up the good work, Quinn!
- Russ
Nice tips, Russ!!
or you can just hit CMD + D to duplicate any file and gives you the option to rename the file
George4All you could try turning it into a hackintosh. Doesn’t hurt to try. If you want a cheap Mac there’s a bunch on eBay just be careful and check the main board for water damage as soon as you get it.
@@raulaguilar Yeah, that's probably the biggest tip of all: keyboard shortcuts and gestures are WAY more consistent on the Mac than on Windows (almost certainly due to Apple's actually publishing Human Interface Guidelines for developers to follow).
Want to open a file from an app? Command O. From Finder? Also Command O, not Enter/Return. (Return in Finder lets you rename a file.)
Want to resize something in your desktop publisher? Hold down Option to keep it centered while resizing. Want to resize a window? Hold down Option to keep it centered while resizing.
In fact, you can hold down Option while clicking any system-provided menu or menubar icon to see a list of alternate behaviors, ditto for many if not most third-party provided menus and menubar icons.
I freaking love this OS. Always have.
@@AJBlue98 Tanks Russ great addition to the video
If you select an action for a Hot Corner while holding Option key pressed, that action will only fire if you press Option key and move your cursor to the corresponding corner - helps to avoid unwanted triggers!
Good to know thanks. I turned them off years ago because it was extremely annoying to trigger a hot corner when I was just moving the mouse around
Just tried it and it works perfectly fine, even with the others modifiers: Command, Control and Shift can be used alone or simultaneously!
That is great!
Dan K. You sir are a genius. I salute you.
thanks it helps a lot and works with command and controls keys too 🧡
*Cheat sheet:*
AppCleaner = great app for uninstalling applications (free)
MacUpdater = managing updating for all non-appstore apps
Quicklook:
spacebar = render quick view on a file
hold spacebar = quick pop for quicklook
Screenshots:
shift + cmd + 3 = screenshot whole desktop
shift + cmd + 4 = screenshot selection (hold spacebar to resize window or option key to resize all corner)
shift + ctrl + cmd + 4 = save screenshot to clipboard
Sounds:
hold down shift to play or not play volume clicks when adjusting the volume
shift + option + volume (or brightness) keys to modulate in 1/4 increments
Finder:
option key = copy file when dragging it in finder
option + cmd = create shortcut to file when dragging it
Emojis:
ctrl + cmd + space = emoji picker
Other:
shift + option + cmd + v = past text and use destination formatting
ctrl + t = shift the previous letters in text fields / documents
shift + cmd + t = open previous closed window
cmd + space = open spotlight
spotlight can do math in spotlight and other computations + conversion (weight, currency, etc.)
hot corners - find under screensaver settings
right click twice on RUclips to watch picture in picture
Do not disturb
Option + click Notification Center = do not disturb switching
Window tricks:
cmd + q = quit application
cmd + n = new window
cmd + h = hide window (different from minimising)
cmd + m = minimise window
Two tips I haven't seen in your vids yet, that may be common knowledge for some, but which I've shown to long-time Mac users who were surprised:
1) In a text field, Fn+Delete removes characters AFTER the cursor
2) Holding Option before clicking on Menu Bar Status icons either/both provides more options and/or shows deeper contextual info. E.g. Option+click the WiFi icon to see your antenna's MAC address, the router IP, current channel, etc. - and hover the mouse over other SSIDs to see similar info. (You don't need to keep Option held down the whole time, just be sure to hold it before clicking the icon and then you can release the key.)
can you drag the app cleaner in app cleaner to uninstall itself?
Yes
🤯
Damn you low-key betraying app cleaner :(
What about MacUpdater updating itself? 🤯
Anybody here remember Baby Huey- The Strongest Baby Duck Comic ? Lol! ( Lifting Self) !!!
Tips learned:
3:23 Double Right Click for PinP.
4:05 Hold Space (this will take some getting used to)
6:02 hold space to move
6:38 FINALLY PrintScreen in Windows!
8:05 Incremental increase... But they keyboard brightness should instead move faster.
10:15 Try PERCENTAGE %... NEVER WORKS! it just subtracts instead
12:34 use CMD+W on my MX Master mouse as a shortcut... best thing ever for closing windows.
How could you forget the command + L to highlight the weblink so that you can quickly copy the website. I use this a lot when i'm citing sources for a school project. Hope this helps.
Command + L highlights then Command + C copies
windows also supports that well
This is one of the reasons I like macOS. There’s a ton of little productivity shortcuts and I feel like I’m always finding new ones.
@@isaackvasager9957 Cmd-Tab, Cmd-~, Mission Control, Zoom button, choices of how to minimise... it goes on... do you mean that they don't have window management tools apart from the ones you forget exist?
Yes productivity lives on the mac, all of you should also discover Apple Script. IIt’s unfortunately dying because so few have discovered it. I used it to automate work reporting from a calendar at the end of a month and send it of to the boss. I’ve used it to automatically download a pdf file from a rss subscription and load it into iTunes to automatically load the pdf file to my phone. It was also able to select the correct file for me as they were 5 different types and with Braille in case some one had such a reader.
Apple script is so useful, but gets so little love. For people in some editing workflow folder actions are superior. Just drop your files in a folder and have them automatically processed in almost any app. You can even have files coming in from internet to be automatically processed.
We had that in 2000 automatic image processing in photoshop. Webpage updates, pictures and info from our customers. E.g. car sellers and brokers. All based on AppleScript. They loaded up some pictures wrote some text in a form and uploaded. One could just watch the computers doing your work for you.
One can have it done hidden also, but just in case we let be so it could be monitored. This was even before mac os x.
I think one of my favorites is the file-location drag&drop that works in system open dialogs. It works like this:
1) say you want to upload a picture to a website that doesn't support drag and drop. So you click the 'upload' button
2) now normally you'd have to click thru to the file system to find the file BUT, if you just drag and drop the file INTO the open dialog, it won't copy the file but it select it within the dialog
This works in ANY 'open dialog' for any program which is super helpful! I really like when I need to open a downloaded file since I always have a lot within my downloads folder, I just drag it from the dock (the downloads stack) into the open dialog and boom! No need to search for it!
Preach! One of the simple things Windows is bad at.
CMD-Tab and then you can CMD-Q from the tab switcher. I use it all the time if I’ve opened a bunch of stuff.
And to extend that one - CMD+` will cycle backwards through them (instead of hammering CMD+Tab all the time)!
Christian Behnke the arrow keys do the same. My favourite is pressing space on an app in tab switcher. Or the down arrow. Soo helpful.
@@ChristianBehnke I also believe cmd+shift+tab does that
You can press H to hide, too!
A million thumbs up for the Shift Option Command V to paste trick! I can not tell you how much time's been wasted by trying to find a 'remove formatting' option or manually set the size, font and remove background color etc.
Sadly it doesn't work with my mac - I have to push ctrl + cmd + v and then I still have to choose "paste: unformatted text or html or...." -.-
how the hell they wanted us to press all these keys at the same time
i honestly learn so much with these guides, and i consider myself a very competent mac user. shows how much i know!
There is still so much stuff I don’t know either. Pretty powerful OS! Thanks so much for watching!!
@@snazzy totally! thanks for the reply Snazzy!
I'm considering buying new M1 macbook Pro, hence watching this video again after a year 🙃
But the shortcuts seem unnecessary complicated as compared to windows. In windows most shortcuts only use 2 keys win/alt/ctrl + other key. In Mac it feels way more complicated.
This one is my favorite and I discovered it and I feel so proud when I can share it. I hope you see this cause it fuckin rocks.
The setup - You're on a web page and want to upload something, but it doesn't have a fancy thing like youtube or google drive that just says "Drag a file here to upload!". No it's one of those legacy style functions, like when you're trying to upload a resume to a job website or something annoying.
Press "select file" and there will be a finder window of some sort pop up so you can navigate to the file on your computer, then you can press "upload" or "okay" or what ever, then you're back to the screen before and continue with your day.
That moment where you have to navigate to the file can be immensly annoying, especially if it's a file thats buried in a deep file structure, or even just on your desktop, but say it's a restricted window of somekind and isn't showing your favorites, or perhaps you have to upload many little files frequently to this website, or maybe you just saved a file in a specific spot, but can't exactly remember the file tree, but you have the location open right now and can SEE THE FILE. You just now have to go inspect it, and kinda figure out where it is located, and click through to get there. SUPER ANNOYING.
The solution, is if you have the file location open already, you can just drag the file onto the popup finder window and that will auto navigate to that file, and you can then just hit upload. So on the webpage, you hit "select file", the finder window pops up, you drag onto THAT window, and it will then be selected! (Works for multiple files selected too, if the website allows it!)
This has honestly saved me a ton of frustration and I highly recommend anyone reading this try it out!
Or most "select file" buttons also work when you just drag the file onto it, like right on the button. I do this pretty often and its very neat!
1. To quickly zoom in on part of the screen, go to Settings / Accessibility / Zoom and enable "use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom". Now just hold down the modifier key and scroll up or down to zoom in or out of the screen. Its super fast and zooms the entire screen, not just the specific window.
2. BetterTouchTool is awesome for extra mouse/trackpad gestures. For the trackpad i'm using only 2 gestures: 5 finger tap to maximize window, 3 finger tap for middle click. So i can quickly open a link in a new tab in safari using 3 tap on the link.
3. In the Preview app, under the markup toolbar you can actually create a signature by writing it on a paper and holding it in front of your isight camera. Once scanned, you can insert this into any document, pdf too. You can even change the color of the signature.
4. Holding down option while clicking on the bluetooth, wifi or volume at the status bar will show more info
5. Select multiple images in finder and press option + space to start an automatic slideshow
Here are some "expansions" on shortcuts that were mentioned:
5:38 - Press Cmd+Shift+5 to access more options when screenshotting. There you can select which folder you want the
12:01 - (This is only for Google Chrome). Cmd + Q sits dangerously close to the equally useful Cmd+W. If you want to protect yourself from accidental Cmd+Q you can enable "Long press" for that shortcut. Has saved me a bunch of times.
Honestly hot corners is my favorite OSX feature. I'm kinda of amazed more people don't use it.
My setup:
Lower left: Mission Control
Top left: Application windows
Top right: Desktop
Bottom right: Launch pad (I know spotlight can be faster, but that's only if you remember the name of the one random application you need)
Same here aha. And they even get frustrated when then use your computer and throw the mouse all around, not understanding why the windows went away aha. But it's such a handy trick!
The best thing of the corners, is while draggin files from one place to another. Start the drag, go to the corner, find the drop window. Boom
Wish I'd seen your Tweet about this.
I'm primarily a Windows user, but at work I have to use a Mac. I hated MacOS' window management and instead found a free app called 'Spectacle' which allows me to quickly throw windows from one screen to another, left side of the screen, right side, full screen, top-right, top-left, etc. all through simple keyboard shortcuts. (Option+Cmd+Left Arrow for left half, Opt+Cmd+F for full screen, etc.).
I do a lot of data wrangling between folders and servers for work so being able to quickly throw windows around my workspace is important. This has saved me so much time!
In 10.14.5 there is a really nice menu for all types of screen captures [shift] [command] [5]
its the same thing as launching the screenshot app FYI
Also you can add " screenshot app " to your touchbar
0:42 I've been using Alfred for months but somehow didn't know you could drag things out of it like you did there. You should make a video dedicated to using Alfred with tips, tricks & alfred workflows you use.
(I already watched the one you did 10 years ago but...you know...that was 10 years ago)
9:00 That cmd+t "letter switcher" is a pretty interesting one! Not that I would use that one in particular, but what really would be useful is a shortcut to change a capital letter to a small one, instead of deleting and retyping it when you decided to add something to the front of the sentence. Is it possible to find the script behind this command somehow?
Back in the late 90's I had a friend who was an Apple person. They were rare then, here.
I asked her why Apple and she said: "it's so much more intuitive, for instance, if you want to remove something you just drag it to the trash". I told her that Windows did the same thing and then she was out of options, haha. I tried the same thing with other Mac people and it turned out they always thought Apples could do things that Windows couldn't. I did end up buying a Mac just to see if I could figure out why on earth you'd want one. I remained a Windows person as it just didn't work for me. Now, I am not telling anyone what to use, it's up to you obviously. But in comparisons it always seems like Windows almost always is capable of doing the same things as MacOS, plus a lot of other stuff.
So when this video popped up I figured I'd give it all a try to see if my theory is correct, here goes!
1:00: Windows does this without an app
1:23: As opposed to what? Apps tend to auto update on my PC?
2:00: What I cannot handle is not being able to maximize windows easily. Makes the MacOS desktop seem really cluttered to me. I maximize everything all the time and just use alt/tab and the task bar (something else I couldn't miss) to switch and keep an overview.
3:30 With Windows Key & Arrow keys you can move windows around. If I go windowskey & right to move the window ot the right side of my screen, and then up, it will snap to the top right corner. I can then open another window and drag that to the left side of the screen, it will 'maximize' just to the left and take up 50% of the screen width. Goes with every app and window. RUclips will automatically adapt its video size. It's just a video window obvoiusly so it's not as aesthetically pleasing, but it does work in every single bit of software you may want to use.
4:05: Useful! Using Irfanview myself so it opens pretty much instantly, making a preview slighlty unneccesary, but I do see how this could be useful.
4:41: Works in Windows too except that you get a window asking how you want to psted it (HTML, unformatted text, etc.)
5:00: Another thing that works in Windows as well, just slightly better because you can use the arrow keys. Takes way less time. Although that might work in MacOS as well. That said, Windows does allow quarter screen windows, windows that stretch vertically but keep their width and so forth.
5:53: PrtScrn
5:57: Windows & Shift & S
6:20: ALT & PrtScrn on selected Window
6:58: Windows does that anyway, which makes way more sense because usually you take a screenshot so you can paste it somewhere to send it to someone or put it in a document. And if for some reason you actually do want to save it well, you just paste it in an image editor. It's one extra step if you want to do a full screen screenshot but you'll find that in most cases, you won't do that at all. You'll just paste it to where you want it to go.
7:40: Back in the day windows would only make a sound if you changed your volume through the system tray icon, not through the keys on your keyboard (or, in my case, MX Master. Ideal to have volume controls there). Nowadays it's silent all around. That said, why would you want it to go 'bip bip'? You usually adjust the volume while you are playing a video or music, and even if you want to make sure it's not too loud, you can just turn it down first and then adjust while playing, right? The bips never made a lot of sense to me. I do like what they did with the shift key though, it makes sense.
8:19: Windows does it in steps of 2 (0, 2, 4, 6, 8 etc. until 100). If you don't want that, just grab the bar that pops up with your mouse and move it manually. That way you'll be able to go in steps of one, or much quicker obviously.
8:39: Windows & Period
9:22: Why would you ever want to do that? :D. I mean, it's a MacOS only feature, haha.
10:08: Chapeau. Well done Apple, this is one I do miss on Windows.
10:20: Yup. Windows key, just start typing. Or, as I usually do. Windows key, type calc, enter. Brings up the calculator if you want to do more extensive calculating. Conversions work too but it does use bing. Works well, but not without the internet obviously.
11:19: Drag the file with the right mouse button. When you let it go it will give you a little context menu at exactly that location allowing you to copy, move or create a shortcut. CTRL & Drag also works, just creates a duplicate. ALT & Drag does the Alias.
11:59: Click notification center, click focus assist. Apple wins this one but in the end you still have to press two things.
12:40: Windows D for hide, windows M for minimize, ctrl & W for close window and, slightly counter-intuitive, Alt & F4 for closing software. I have Windows & D as one of my mouse shortcuts.
Comments?
I have to say: You and your community are the best when it comes to Mac. Keep it up!
Glad that I have ramped up and learned a lot of these. New ones for today was CMD CTRL SHIFT V to paste without formatting, and a reminder that spotlight is a calculator + currency converter (although I mostly talk to my Google Assistant these days for that)
Thanks!
For those who don't like using Spaces for ergonomic reasons, you can assign shortcuts to each Space from the Keyboard section in the macOS settings. In the Shortcuts tab, click on mission control in the left panel, then unfold the mission control entry on the right panel. The shortcuts are labelled 'Switch to Desktop [X]' for each Space you want to switch to. I personnaly assign them to my numbers row plus one ore more modifiers.
Using these shortcut it's pretty easy to switch to a Space, and you can even quickly move a window from your current Space to another one by clicking and maintaining on the window titlebar while using the switch shortcut. Really handy!
⌘+T to open a new tab.
⌘+⇪+N to open a private/incognito window.
⌘+⇪+W to close a window (as opposed to ⌘+W to close a single tab).
For window management, I highly recommend Spectacle.
For Screenshot & image management, try Pixdrop.
OMG. I've only been using Mac for like 5 years now and I didn't know any of these (except for like 2). Thank you for sharing these! I especially love the preview thing with the space bar, emoji pallet, and creating alias shortcut
A bunch of emacs text editor shortcuts work almost everywhere in macOS. That's where the ctrl+t comes from (it swaps the two characters around the cursor). There are some other emacs shortcuts I find super useful when I'm typing out a bunch of text and need to go back to make changes:
ctrl+f acts as the right (forward) arrow
ctrl+b as left (backward) arrow key
ctrl+p as the up (previous line) arrow key
ctrl+n as the down (next line) arrow key
ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line or paragraph
ctrl+e to go to the end of paragraph or line
ctrl+d acts as the windows delete key that DELETES FORWARD unlike the mac delete which backspaces
These all are super handy when you don't want to leave home-row and need to navigate around your text. (I never use CAPS LOCK so I just make it CTRL and it makes all these shortcuts super easy and comfortable to use)
As a single desktop user, I use hot corners differently. Instead of mission control, I set the bottom right corner to “exposé” show all windows, and bottom left corner to “exposé” show all of the current application’s windows.
Super helpful if you have 10 documents open in a single app to see all of the documents at once and pick which one you want to use.
Another tip, for screenshots you can use the command line to set a different default location for saving them. I have a screen shots folder on my desktop and have screenshots go there, instead of the desktop directly.
Some really good shortcut gems here. I got 2 new ones, specially the Emcas Keybinding Ctrl + T for transposing the last two letters. How about a more in depth set of text editing shortcuts like the Emacs Key Bindings? I do use a lot Ctrl + A to go to the start of the line, Ctrl + E to go to the end of the line, Ctrl + F to move the cursor forward or Ctrl + B to move backwards. Ctrl + P to go up one line Ctrl + N to go down one line, Ctrl + O to insert a line break after the cursor and keep the cursor in place. You could combine some of them with shift for selection like having the cursor in the middle of a line and do Shift + Ctrl + A and it will select all the way to the first letter, do Ctrl + K and cut the selected text, of if not selected it would cut till the end of the line and Ctrl + Y to paste the text back. There are quite a bunch that are usable and they work even in terminal where you can’t do easy text selection, or Option + Backspace to delete all the way to the start of the previous word. That one I use a lot, if I mistake a word instead of looking where I type it wrong, I just delete the whole thing and type the word again. Per example the word “tomorrow” if I mistake and typed “tomrrow ” (notice the usual space after typing a word) instead of doing Backspace Backspace Backspace Backspace Backspace .. O R R O W, I can just do Option + Backspace and just type “tomorrow” again, yes they are maybe more key strokes but it comes easier and faster if its a known word that you are used to type than to see where you mistake and how many backspaces you need to do and then the need of typing a broken part of a known word, so typing “tomorrow” again its easier than realizing where was the error and typing ORROW only which it doesn’t come naturally. So yeah, a Text Editing Tips video would be Epic!
I always learn something useful from macOS tip lists, there's just so much hidden stuff. Useful detail on Option-drag to copy files: notice that a green plus (+) symbol appears on the pointer while holding Option and dragging, indicating that it will copy and not move. This appears automatically if you are dragging between devices, such as from your desktop to a USB drive, copying by default. To force a cross-device drag to be a move and not copy, hold Command while dragging, causing the green plus to go away.
Try alt on drag and drop selected text on any editor.
Here’s a couple of my favorites. On a laptop, or non-extended keyboard, pressing Command-Up/Down Arrows will scroll to the top/bottom of a window. Option-Up/Down Arrows will scroll one page up/down. And, Control-D will Forward Delete text.
When using command-tab you can press q while hovering over an application to close it. Supper handy!
So something kewl. You mentioned the little sounds that can be toggled on and off. And you mentioned that if you hold shift and option and change the volume in smaller increments. BUT if you just press shift while changing volume it will have the little sounds while you are holding shift!
I only learned transpose, but these are all ones I use all the time. Great tips!
If you simply hold down a function key while setting up a HotCorner, later the corners only work while you press down the corresponding function key.
Zeitungsgift this one is awesome, thanks for sharing!!!
Found this by mistake, Hold Option and tap the Volume or Brightness button and the Preference window for volume or bightness opens immediately, very quick.
alt click on the icon and you see more info or options, before you have to go to the preferences.
If you want to know file size and/or change rights, you might press CMD+i. If you have a bunch of file selected it will open a window for each file! If you press CMD+ALT+i you will get one inspector window that tells you the total size of the files ☝🏼
3:15 ..you can get Netflix to do picture in picture .. when the media is playing in safari, but not in full screen as a separate window you can enable picture in picture
I’ve had IPhones & IPad’s since they came out however I’ve just switched over from a Window’s PC to Mac and this RUclips Video is excellent, Thank You
One of the advantages of multiple desktops is you can assign a major use app to that desktop and that one only. For example, I put iTunes and Mail on Dsk#6, Calibre on Dsk#2, Kindle on #3, TextWrangler and Sublime Text on #4. That way when I am editing an ePub and need to do mass changes or hundreds of line, I can find my text editors by swiping my 4 fingers across the trackpad. I also do a 4 fingers down to chose with desktop and/or see what's happening in the background, ie I can see the scrolling in a terminal doing a large compiling task without switching focus and see that it is still crunching away.
For those who like pressing the red button and the app actually quits like on windows you can use a small app called Red Quit which adds that functionality.
So baiscly... all software in amac act like Skype in Windows?
KevinMulia yes
Thanks for the tip! Is it paid or free?
@@caedengoering Free
thats extremelly annoying to think about
Finder automatically copies files when you moving between volumes. If you want to move a file instead, press CMD while dragging.
Also work with selected text inside a text editor. Alt copy the text
I LOVE the shift/Option/sound or Light.. SO great in movies.. now I can adjust the light and sound to perfection!! 👏🏽
The picture-in-picture trick worked on both my Ubuntu 18.04 Chromium and Windows 10 Chrome after a double right-click
Thanks for the tip!
In regards to the 'Picture in Picture' tip, if you use the Opera browser, you have the option to 'Detach Video' on pretty much any website.
12:41 I always use the scale effect rather than the Genie one when I minimize a window in Mac OS: it's faster and uses less resources.
The screen shot to clipboard function is one of my favourites. Use it all the time. The duplicate with option drag also works in Pages. Macupdater is new for me. Thanks for the video.
Love these videos! I always find some random shortcut I didn't know about
You can do Command-Q while doing Command-Tab - also works for Command-H (hide). Also, you can drag a file, command-Tab into a different app, and pull the file into the application. Useful for dragging say a file from the Finder Desktop into a Mail window. Command-Option-H is `hide others` which I use a lot. Command-L highlights the URL in a browser.
Quick Tips:
1. If you open Activity Monitor, you can press cmd + 2, cmd + 3, cmd + 4 to get graphs for your CPU, GPU, and cores. Use the same shortcuts to close those windows.
2. If you want to select every other file in Finder (E.G. In an ABAB... file pattern and you only want to select the As) You can switch to the icon view mode (the leftmost option). Then minimize the Finder window so that there are only 2 files on each row. You can drag and select the left half for the As and the right half for the Bs. I used this when I found out there were duplicates of hundreds of files. This can also work on Windows.
hey snazzy I use hot corners all the time
less now that I got my mx master 2s
love the vids keep up the great work
Good stuff, Quinn. I knew most of these, but picked up a couple of new tricks here. Thanks! 😎
opt + volume / + brightness brings up the respective system settings panels. Super comfortable when your manually switching through audio sources.
These are awesome. Thank you. Will find the “paste with same formatting” very useful!
I'm surprised you didn't mention shaking the cursor until it gets really big is a useful way to find it if you forgot where it is when for example returning to your computer and waking it up.
Ever want to know the exact color of something on your screen? Use the digital color meter to get the value.
Turn on the screen zoom and the shortcut for it. Now you can hold control and scroll to zoom in and out on things. Now you can see the tiny text on your giant iMac screen!
Press command I when you've selected something in the finder to get the info panel. It can be very useful!
With iPadOS and MacOS Catalina, you can now use your iPad as a second display or you can mirror the screen and use your Mac with the touchscreen!
Ever wish you could get the functionality of the notification sound but the sound is off? Turn on the accessibility option to flash the screen when alerts would make a sound.
You can print almost anything to a PDF file, which obviously makes a PDF.
Awesome video! I knew most of the simple ones, but some i never heard of! That screenshot taking without the actual screen shot will be a life saver for sure! :)
My tips:
- Try Yabai Tiling Window manager. While you'll need to know your way around Terminal to get it installed, it's FANTASTIC. Think of Moom, Magnet, BBT, etc on steroids.
It has the ability to auto tile your windows whenever one is opened. This allows you to never have floating or overlapping windows. With Yabai you can also instantly switch desktop spaces and bypass the animation/lag that OSX has by default. I hate using any Mac without Yabai now. Other smaller features include: Forcing certain window types to float, throwing windows between spaces/monitors with the keyboard, force certain windows to open in a layout. It's very powerful. Give it a look.
- Keyboard Maestro. Literally a life saver. I have so many macros setup to speed up video editing as well as day to day tasks on OSX. You can create macros for just about anything you can think of. You are really only limited by your imagination. Give it a shot. One of the best pieces of software out there for a Mac.
I've been waiting for another Mac OS Video! Thank you @SnazzyLabs! Also to add to your picture in picture tip, hold down command when moving the picture in picture overlay and you can put it anywhere on the screen you like! You can also move Spotlight's search menu by holding Command down too!
What about 'command shift 5' its the all in one screenshot and screen recording hub
Wow, those are some cool tricks, as a long time Mac User I knew most of them but some of them are new and really handy, thanks!
For the tip about Shift>Control>Command 4, I have changed it in the keyboard shortcut settings to Shift>Command 1 which makes it easier to remember.
Another cool tip for Picture in Picture. If you right click twice like you said, then after it's in picture in picture, you can hold the Command key and drag the video wherever you want on your screens. So you're not actually limited to the four corners where it tries to snap to :)
You can press Ctrl after pressing standard hotkeys for screenshot. If you hold Ctrl before final selection it will go to clipboard. Pressing 3 keys and than holding Ctrl before click is simpler than 4 at once :)
Cmd k to connect to server quickly, love it as it can hold a number of your most recent ones, really simple. Also you can configure the servers in login options so it connects when you log in. Love it so much
Since Dashboard is going away in macOS Catalina, I've started using a combination of the Today/Notifications slide-out and a second desktop to replicate its functionality. Mission Control is an easy way to switch from one to the other and if you're using a Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master, programming the thumb button makes it practically effortless.
Also, I don't need to hold the space bar to peek at files. I just press (not hold) it to peek at the file, then use the mouse or cursor keys to peek at other files.
this was the only good mac tip video ive ever seen cheers man
the one i learned most recently and now use all the time is cmd + < which is basically like cmd + tab but for within an application. so if you have multiple instances of lets say pages you can cycle though them
As someone that came from a German keyboard layout Windows to the Mac, i knew about the [Cmd]+[Q] shortcut very early. Because typing a @ on a German keyboard requires pressing [Alt Gr]+[Q]. And since Alt-Buttons are at the same position where Cmd is on a Mac keyboard you are doomed to close your browser every time you want to log in into your mail account... takes some time to get used to...
I’ve been an a bit of a hiatus for a bit due to my computer being barely function for me anymore. So I’m expecting my new 16” MBP this week and some of these tips are helpful as new or refresh. Thanks!
Much appreciate for sharing Mac hotkey!
I'm using them a lot and miss some useful hotkey introducing in the video.
Thanks!!
Going to buy my first Mac product in the form of the new Macbook Pro very soon. These videos are literally training me for when I finally purchase it!
WIth "SHIFT CMD T" for a just-closed tab, you can keep pressing those keys and it'll re-open all closed tabs in reverse chronological order! So if you closed more than 1 tab by mistake, you can go back and get each closed one ... up to a point that works well, maybe back to 3 or 4 closed tabs? Then it might just get pesky if you just wanted the last tab, the 3rd last tab, and then the 6th last tab -- then you'll have some tabs open you don't want in between those.
You forgot to mention cmd + ~ for switching between windows within one app.
Where are you from, because I believe on a standard english keyboard it is cmd+`
@@ditry6386 Yeah, I meant CMD + `
I’m in Japan and that ` is to the right side of P key mixed with @ AND “ (yes 3 in 1 key) (not to confuse with " double quotes which is on the Shift + 2) And one more annoying thing, single Quote ‘ is actually Shift + 7. I seriously don’t know how Japan has some epic programmers with this annoying keysets all over the place. Just for fun lookup Japanese keyboard layout images.
I remmaped to cmd + º so it next to cmd+tab (one for apps, une key up for the same app windows)
Awesome tips! Knew most of them but found a few ones really really useful!
Mindboggling all these options and controls (and commands) we have
4:35 Is there a possibility to change the hotkey combination for the unformatted pasting so that I don't have to break my wrist?
another useful tip for MacBook pro: go to settings > Accessibility > mouse and trackpad > trackpad options : Here you can enable dragging with three fingers drag.. very useful with trackpad to drag windows around without right click just drag windows with three finger gesture :)
Picture in picture is available on pretty much any website. Hold down the speaker icon in the address bar and a popup menu appears. Select Enter Picture in Picture.
Extra: When you drag the PiP around, it snaps into corners, but if you hold CMD while dragging, it will stay wherever you leave it. Useful when it's in the way .)
Hot corners are cool but they can also be really annoying if you use photoshop or autoCad.
I like to shut down the monitor dragging the cursor to bottom left but sometimes when making a selection in photoshop, i drag the cursor to far on the screen and it ends to shut down messing up the selection frame
You can press CTRL *a f t e r* you do a selected area screenshot ;) and it still saves it to the clipboard only ... a bit easier on the hands
Wow! I expected to learn one or two new tips, but learned many and I've been a rather savvy mac user for a decade. Impressive!!
Couple tips I give to every Mac user I see, and the first things I do after a fresh install (so like maybe five times in the past decade)
First, SMC Fan Control and Intel Power Gadget.
Macs have atrocious thermal management, and will rather be quiet and burning then cool but with a noisy fan. Not only does this slow the system down if it decides to throttle rather than turning the fan up, but the excess heating will drastically lower the lifespan of your Mac.
With SMC Fan Control, you can set the minimum fan speed to whatever you like, and it will never dip below that.
Worried about the fan burning out? My MacBook Air spent its entire existence with the fan at 100%, ran faster than the MacBook Pros of some of my colleagues, and the fan lasted 4.5 years before the bearings got noisy.
Spending 5 minutes replacing a $20 (official price) fan every 4.5 years beats your CPU/GPU cooking itself and killing a $500-700 board every three odd years.
Power gadget will show you your current temp and CPU/GPU speed so you can keep track of throttling.
I’ve actually switched to a fanless mac now, so instead, Intel power gadget and turbo boost disabled get the job done.
Rather than have the speed ramp up, the temp go up, the speed drop down to compensate, and the processor slowly cool, before repeating the process (I couldn’t describe a better way to kill a processor if I tried), simply disabling turbo boost and staying on the base clock frequency will extend your devices life greatly, and help keep it cool.
Another tip, while buying macs, is that sometimes a slower processor may actually be faster overall.
Some macs can run full speed pretty well all the time if you lock their fan at 100%, but not all do.
In some cases, it’s better to get a Mac with a slower overall processor that can run at 100% all the time without throttling than one that can reach a nice fast burst speed but will throttle even with the fan locked at 100%.
For big render/compile jobs, the “slower” Mac can sometimes win. This isn’t the case for all models, but I’ve been saying it for years, so stuff like the i9 Pro doesn’t surprise me at all.
Get a lower specced Mac with a lot of RAM if you really want, it’ll save the processor from doing memory compression. This is one way more RAM can actually make a Mac quite a bit faster.
(Check activity monitor, and under memory look at “memory pressure”, this is the amount of time the processor is spending compressing/decompressing memory.)
In some cases, a m3 with 16GB of RAM will run faster than an i5 with 8GB of RAM, this is before we even talk about thermals.
Finally, going back to the top, the other thing I install on all MacBooks is a tool called NoSleep. While, in settings, “Prevent this Mac from automatically going to sleep when the screen is off” usually does the job for everyone, it doesn’t work when the device is unplugged. NoSleep is simple, in that when you shut your macs screen, it simply won’t sleep. That’s it.
(It’s toggleable through the menu bar too)
This can help if your macs running a long task and you want to shut the lid for whatever reason. Just be careful, leave it on and throw your Mac into a bag and you may come back to a very toasty Mac.)
It’s a step up from the settings option because when it’s on, no matter what, your Mac simply will not sleep.
For rendering, some say that you should leave your screen open when rendering because the hinge blocks the fan vents. This is half-true.
When you close your Mac, the air vents will be redirected downwards, rather than up, and airflow will still be possible. This isn’t the problem. The problem is that MacBooks actually radiate a lot of heat up through the keyboard and case, and with the screen closed this will simply warm up the air trapped in between the keyboard and screen, possibly heating up the screen.
This is the reason macs get hot when rendering closed. Because of this, I use NoSleep to force the Mac awake when I’m doing something, while leaving the lid open if I’m doing anything serious. You can also prop the lid up slightly, but I’ve found it’s better for the screen to be fully open in cases like this, when possible.
Just some tips from someone who got fed up with wintel machines and now acts like a slavedriver to any MacBooks unfortunate enough to get within my grasp.
The shift+option brightness trick is handy when calibrating my monitors. My monitor calibration software asks me to set my luminance within a small range and I often can’t get it without that trick!
Nice tips. My favourite come from Preview i) signing PDF documents with your scanned signature and ii) the ability to merge and split PDF pages by simply dragging across the left hand side thumbnails
About Hot Corners:
Triggering anything using the *top* corners proved inconvenient for me since I may need to interact with the menu bar without triggering anything else.
My personal settings for Hot Corners are: 1) Mission Control on the *bottom* left (to see all windows in Exposé-style) and Desktop on the *bottom* right (to hide all windows and see an unobstructed desktop. Both of these "gesture" effects are reversible by just repeating them a second time.
I've been using these settings for years now and "converted" most of the people I showed these to since they're so convenient IRL.
I learned several useful things. Thanks to you & your tipsters. I'm wondering does that alias tip work for more than documents? I have a bunch of sample (Wavs) libraries and software music instruments and they take up a lot of space. It'd be very handy if I could move them to another disk and just make aliases. Do you think this can be done? I'm learning quite a lot of new stuff in this video. I will save it. COMMAND W!!!! I have to close so many windows. This is the best Mac help video (non music making) that I've seen in awhile.
I like you channel for all the tips. My only comment is I wish you didn't go as fast I need to write them down, or you had them written for us to use later
PS for those that don't know, picture in picture option also works on linux (I assume windows as well). I might have enabled something before though not sure
Chrome has it built-in as of about a year ago.
tip 3, tip 4 4:00, shift +cmd+ option (alt) + v paste text in normal format
Quinn do you have a video about what programs you use in your system tray by the clock
You can also use the application switcher (cmd+T) to close applications. Just press tab until you get to the application you want to close, then press CMD+Q to quit it.
(if you hold shift in application switcher while pressing on the tab, you go the other way)
HOT CORNERS YOU SAY: I use top left to bring forward all windows of the same app, bottom right to show the desktop (super useful to grab that screenshot you need to attach to the email you are writing) and use top right as well to expose all windows of all apps.
dang, I thought I knew all the interesting shortcuts and tricks, but there were two or three here that were new to me !!! thx
😁 It helped a lot I migrated from windows to Mac last year and it was the best thing I did, I don't suffer anymore. I haven't learned all the shortcuts yet, this video helped a lot in my productivity.
iPhone apps that shoot RAW plus JPG often use a different numbering system for the RAW file - making it awkward to match them up on the computer. I order them and then, in list view, sort by file type, select the RAW files and rename beginning with the first JPG number.
Been waiting for this for long, great video!!!
screen shot to clip board is really awesome!!!!!!
When you realize Gnome 40's revolutionary environment and window revealing system is basically mission control enabled with hot corners. As a Gnome 40 user I was shocked lol.
I would like to add to the space-bar Quickview trick. This also works in Open and Save dialog windows, not just in the Finder. I have found this to be far more useful than you would first think.