Mac shortcut keys

Memorize shortcut keys

Shortcut keys to enhance the efficiency of the most help, but the initial grasp of the curve is also relatively steep. By memorizing some of the most common shortcut keys, you can feel the immediate effect. The more practical are:

Cmd+c, Cmd+v,cmd+a, we all know, but try not to use it on a copy of the code.

Cmd+delete: Deletes the current line. Deletes the file directly when the file is selected.

shift+ Direction key: This is useful when selecting text, you can select a single character or whole line, use more to find the feel.

Cmd+shift+ left and right direction key: This can quickly choose to move forward, with a lot of.

CTRL + A: Run to the forefront of the current line, the use of high frequency.

Ctrl+e: Run to the end of the current line, the use of high frequency.

Cmd+tab: Switching applications, which is the most popular way for most people, is not the most efficient way, and will be followed by other methods.

Cmd+ ': Switching the same application window, this is very practical. For example, when you open multiple Xcode projects, quickly switch between different projects. Finder,firefox and other scenes are supported.

Cmd+w: Close the current window, which will be described in other ways, as well as efficiently.

Cmd+q: Closes the current application.

Cmd+n: New window, such as opening a new Finder window, with Cmd+w is very practical.

Cmd+t: New tab, Support tab-mode applications generally support this shortcut key. For example, under Safari,firefox,chrome, create a new tab.

Cmd+i: Displays the current file information, looks at the file size, the picture width height is useful.

Select files by Space preview: useful when previewing pictures or PDF files. With the direction key can quickly preview more than one picture.

Short Press the power button: You can close the screen, but not too short, more than a few times there is feel.

Memorize each application shortcut key: Each application has its own shortcut keys, like Xcode,android Studio, and even some entertainment applications, such as the player, listening to the song application, can be done through the keyboard to do some commonly used operations.

The purpose of using shortcut keys is to focus on the screen, through the muscle memory to complete the auxiliary operation, without distracting to touch the mouse, click the menu and so on.

Full Screen working environment

The MacBook screen is small, then the top status bar, and the bottom dock bar, the rest of the display area is very few, the smaller the visible area will inevitably lead to more frequent window scrolling operation. I am accustomed to the status bar, the dock bar is automatically hidden, so you can have a long time to pay attention to the work of higher efficiency, such as writing code can be seen in the Xcode more code, such as editing text without frequent scrolling up and down. The biggest benefit of applying a full-screen screen is to avoid distractions being distracted by other information. Of course the full screen after switching out of the current work environment requires additional tools.

Apply Toggle Artifact Snap

The dock bar is usually hidden by me, but I have the most popular app on the dock. If you want to switch between these popular apps, it's obviously inefficient to exhale the hidden dock bars frequently. Snap applications can be a perfect solution to this problem.

Automatic mode, directly maps the application on the dock bar from left to right to the following shortcuts:

Cmd+1, cmd+2, cmd+3, ... cmd+0. This is a combination that allows you to switch between 10 commonly used applications, starting with a few days of adaptation and, once the muscle memory is formed, highly efficient.

Of course, you may often use more than 10 apps, this time need to cooperate with Spotlight search, is the upper right corner of the status bar Magnifier button. Spotlight is useful when applying a switch, and of course it needs to be hit with a few letters, and you need to remember the approximate name of your favorite app. I will exhale on the MacBook Spotlight shortcut keys set to cmd+e,cmd+e, input q on the pop-up QQ music, input QQ on the pop-up QQ, after the return can quickly switch to the target application. Spotlight This pattern seems a little cumbersome, but after the habit can be quickly switched to 1s within the application, than open the finder with the eyes of human flesh search faster than how many times.

I am also accustomed to using Spotlight to do some simple calculations, directly in the input box input numbers can be calculated results.

Snap also has another Manual mode, which is to set the shortcut button to exhale the app. The infinite possibilities in this way depends on your ability to remember:

For example, I am accustomed to single press F2 exhaled terminal, single press F3 call out Finder, but commonly used shortcut keys are easily conflict, to cherish each of the most commonly used keyboard combinations.

The Neglected touch pad

Many people will feel that the MacBook's touchpad is very sensitive and easy to use, single finger touch can complete the mouse click Effect, double refers to touch the right half of the display menu, double finger up and down can complete the page scroll up and down, double fingers from the right sliding out of the notification center, four fingers outward diffusion can show the desktop, The four-point inward contraction can display the application panel, and so on, but these are the most basic operations. Touchpad can be more powerful than most people know, you just need to be able to customize touch gestures.

Apple system officials do not support custom touch gestures, but there is an app that can do it: Bettertouchtool.

Look at the interface to see the application of the cool and powerful, Bettertouchtool can play the Touchpad function to the extreme, you can set for a single application touch gestures, or set the global touch gesture.

From the screenshot above you can see some of my common settings.

Three fingers on the touchpad can simulate cmd+ ' and quickly switch the application window.

The four-finger slide can mute the MacBook, slide again and resume the sound, while listening to the music when people suddenly come to talk to you when it is useful.

Android Studio does not have the function of Xcode the code position before and after the double finger sliding switch, through Bettertouchtool simple set Touch board gesture, map to cmd+[,cmd+] to realize this function.

There are a number of other application settings are not introduced, the focus is that each person can use their own habits to set the most convenient memory touch pad gesture, the longer the use of time, to enhance the efficiency of the help is greater.

Of course, the function of Bettertouchtool is far more than this, this fee application in the online has a lot of tutorials, for the promotion of efficiency, absolute value for money.

The underestimated Safari

I was a heavy Firefox user early on, Firefox on a wide range of plug-ins, basically can think of the function has a corresponding plug-in to support, the disadvantage is that plug-ins more and more, the more cumbersome Firefox, the use of the experience also with the downgrade, in fact, the most important browser is the browsing experience, No amount of other tricks is really useful.

Later started using Chrome,chrome to win over Firefox on speed, the browsing experience was great and the stability was better than Firefox. It is also convenient to do some simple Web page debugging. The current frequency of use is also relatively high.

I believe that the frequent use of Safari friends are not many, in fact, Apple's native applications have done a lot of good, habits from the Internet to find a variety of applications to install and perfect system functions, is from windows to bring bad problems. Safari's overall experience has been underestimated by most people.

For example, Safari's favorites are like this:

This is the most concise and comfortable favorites I have ever seen, with only text, no icons, automatic center alignment, and direct eyes to locate the target.

Safari+bettertouchtool's browsing experience is this:

Three fingers up and down you can create a new tab.

Three-finger slide you can close the current tab.

Three-point left-sliding can switch tab to the left.

Three-fingered right-sliding can toggle tab to the right.

Double-click the reading area to enlarge the reading area to the size of the screen, which is useful when reading large amounts of text. Double-click to restore to its original shape.

Three fingers Click English words, complete the translation of words. This is the most perfect word translation experience I can find so far, and only Mac native application support, firefox,chrome, the effect of the following figure:

Perfect sync to Iphone,ipad. Safari favorites, browsing records, and so on can be perfect synchronization between the devices, now using the IPhone and the IPad to read more and more scenes, the function of multiple device synchronization is important.

Safari style layout, text typesetting, page sliding experience, in each browser is also my personal feeling the best one.

Safari also has the most common plug-ins, such as Adblock,evernote,pocket and so on.

More details can only be felt for a long time.

There's more.

These are the most basic ways and tools to improve efficiency, and each person can tailor a more powerful and efficient work environment to their own habits, and then have the opportunity to share some other tools. I believe that there are more possibilities under Mac to be discovered, and also welcome to share. Finally, recommend two app (confiscate advertising fee), improve efficiency class, all support the use of cross equipment, the specific usage of Google: Pocket, wonderful list.