MacBook Productivity Tips

Shortcuts help improve our productivity. The following are the top 20 shortcuts for MacBook users: 

1. Command + Space turns on the spotlight search, which helps find anything on the MacBook. We can also use the window to do simple calculations like using a calculator. 
2. Option + Close After we open many images in the Preview application, we can close all of them by clicking on the Close with the Option key. 
3. Command-Option-Shift-V is different from Command+V because it pastes the Text without the format. 
4. Command+i Opens the files info dialog to check the file created and modified time and update to which application should be used to open the file (and the type of files with select the Change All option). 
5. Command+Control+Shirt+4 takes screenshots of selected areas to Clipboard. Command+Shirt+4 takes screenshots of the chosen location and saves them as a file to a specified folder. Command+Shift+5 open screenshot/recording options with location selected. 
6. Command+Control+Space opens the Emoji window where we can search and add Emojis. 

Settings are necessary to keep the computer delivering the proper function. The following are the top settings: 

1. In the Finder | View menu, choose Show Path Bar and Show Status Bar. Those two bars give useful folder hierarchy and details while navigating the files system. 
2. In the Keyboard Preferences | Text, add text replacement for frequently used text input such as emails and popular emojis. For example, I put sukeeteatime.com as ".st," so I don't have to type the full address later.