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![]() ![]() ![]() Toggl is less an app that helps your computer work faster and more an app that tricks you into working faster. 5: Time tracking with Toggl Toggl’s Calendar view (left) and the List view (right). Reaching down to the Dock and clicking an icon can take a few seconds, but launching apps with Spotlight is lightning-fast. Just type in the first few letters of the app you want to open, and the right app is often the first result. And you don’t need to download a separate app to make it happen - this feature is already built into macOS.Ĭommand-Space is the default keyboard shortcut that launches Spotlight. If your hands are already on your keyboard, there’s a faster approach. You can click an icon in the Dock, you can bring up Launchpad or you can stick your Applications folder in your Dock. The Mac offers several convenient ways to launch apps. You can launch apps faster than you can think with Spotlight. 4: Launch apps with Spotlight Here, I’m actually going a little slower so that you can see what I’m doing. It’s also free and open source, so if you’re comfortable with Xcode, you can build it yourself. It removes the extra step of hitting Command-V after you pick something from the menu. I recommend enabling the “Paste automatically” option. If you want to go back and paste something else, hit Shift-Command-C ( ⇧⌘C) and you can paste one of your nine most recent copies with Command-1 through Command-9.īy default, Maccy keeps a record of the last 200 things you’ve copied - more than enough to copy a bunch of links in a row and paste them without bouncing back and forth so much. With it, you simply copy and paste as you normally would. It’s so good, you’ll forget that it isn’t a built-in macOS feature. Maccy is a small, simple clipboard manager. 3: Fast clipboard manager Here, I’m using Maccy to paste the second half of this poem into a document. You can get CleanShot X for $29 from the developer’s website. Here’s the kicker: CleanShot X also lets you temporarily hide your Mac’s desktop icons while you’re recording, so you don’t have to clean up things between screenshots.ĬleanShot X is fantastic, and I held out on getting it for too long. Using Self-Timer, you have a few seconds to get an app window ready after you hit the button. Record Screen can output as a GIF - it’s what I used to make the Spotlight GIF later on in this very article. Capture History serves up a visual list of previous screenshots that you can recapture with one click. If you need to take a bunch of screenshots of a particular app in a row, CleanShot X’s Capture Previous Area command will take another one with the same exact setup. It offers all the basics: screenshot a window, screenshot a slice of the screen, and record the screen. CleanShot X will surely fill in the gaps. If you need to take a lot of screenshots, as I do, you might want more than the screenshot tools that come with the Mac. 2: Turbocharge screenshots with CleanShot X CleanShot X lives in the menu bar. Rectangle Pro adds even more features for $9.99. You can download Rectangle with all the described features for free from the developer’s website. On the other tab, you can configure which edges of the screen do what when you drag a window there. Rectangle’s keyboard shortcuts are highly configurable. When I had multiple displays, I liked using Control-Option-Command-Left (or -Right) to send windows between my screens in the same relative position, which macOS doesn’t provide a keyboard shortcut for. Control-Option-C ( ^⌥C) centers a window on the display, which is nice if you want to hide everything else and focus on one window. I still use Rectangle every day, even as an old-school Mac user. Grab a window and throw it to the side of the screen for Windows-style snapping and resizing. It’s so much faster than the finicky (and limited) Split View controls on macOS, or the confusing Stage Manager system. The app gives you convenient keyboard shortcuts for top/bottom/left/right halves of the screen, corners, size and positioning. With Rectangle, you can get that on a Mac. ![]() In Windows, you can drag a window to the side of the screen to fill the left or right half, to the corner for just a quarter, or to the top center to fill the screen. You can see all of these Mac productivity tips in action in the latest Cult of Mac how-to video:Ī lot of PC converts miss the fast window snapping from Windows. And they all show you how to get things done better, and faster, on your Mac. ![]() One takes advantage of a handy feature built into macOS. Four of these tips rely on third-party apps (some free, some paid). ![]()
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