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If you want to become a Mac power user, you should first remember some essential keyboard shortcuts. These most commonly used Mac shortcuts alone can cost you a hell lot of time to remember them.
Luckily, most of the shortcuts are derived by adding modifier key to the initial shortcut. These initial shortcuts are easy to remember and shorter than their derivation (i.e. addition of Option, Control, Shift, etc). With only half of your work, you can get your productivity double-up; It sounds like iPhone ads: Twice as Fast. Half the Price.
I also have included some nifty tricks to give you an idea on how you can intuitively apply this to your daily needs.
| 1 | Command-I | Get Info (Move Content to Mail from Safari) |
| Command-Shift-I | Mail Link to Webpage | |
| Command-Control-I | Get Summary Info | |
| Command-Option-I | Show Inspector | |
| 2 | Command-Option-Escape | Force Quit… |
| Command-Shift-Option-Escape | Force Quit Application | |
| 3 | Command-F | Find… |
| Command-Shift-F | Find by Name… | |
| 4 | Command-W | Close Window |
| Command-Option-W | Close All | |
| Command-Shift-W (TextEdit) | Wrap to Page | |
| 5 | Command-O | Open |
| Command-Control-O | Open in New Window | |
| 6 | Command-Y | Quick Look |
| Command-Option-Y | Slideshow | |
| 7 | Command-M | Minimize |
| Command-Option-M | Minimize All | |
| 8 | Command-H | Hide |
| Command-Shift-H | Hide Others | |
| 9 | Command-Delete | Delete File |
| Command-Shift-Delete | Empty Trash | |
| Command-Shift-Option-Delete | Empty Trash Without Warning | |
| 10 | Command-C | Copy |
| Command-Option-C | Copy Style | |
| Command-Shift-C | Hide/Show Color Palette (Some Apps) | |
| 11 | Command-V | Paste |
| Command-Option-V | Paste Style | |
| Command-Shift-Option-V | Paste Text and Match Style | |
| 12 | Command-Q | Quit Application |
| Command-Shift-Q | Quit All Applications and Log Out | |
| Command-Shift-Option-Q | Quit All Applications and Log Out without Warnings | |
| 13 | PowerKey | Turn Off Mac |
| Command-Control-PowerKey | Force Restart | |
| Command-Shift-Option-PowerKey | Force Shut Down | |
| 14 | Command-UpArrow | Go to Enclosing Folder |
| Command-Control-UpArrow | Go to Enclosing Folder in New Window | |
| Command-Option-UpArrow | Go to Enclosing Folder and Close Current Window | |
| 15 | Command-A | Select All Items |
| Command-Option-A | Deselect All Items | |
| 16 | Command-N | New Application Window |
| Command-Shift-N | Create New Folder | |
| Command-Option-N | Create New Smart Folder | |
| 17 | Command-Spacebar | Activate/Deactivate Spotlight |
| Command-Option-Spacebar | Open Spotlight Window | |
| 18 | Command-Shift-3 | Capture Entire Screen |
| Command-Control-Shift-3 | Capture Entire Screen to Clipboard | |
| 19 | Command-Shift-4 | Capture Selected Region |
| Command-Shift-4 + Spacebar | Capture Hovered Items | |
| Command-Shift-4 + Hold Spacebar | Move Selected Region | |
| Command-Shift-4 + Hold Option | Resize Selected Region | |
| Command-Shift-4 + Hold Shift | Resize Selected Region Vertically or Horizontally | |
| Command-Control-Shift-4 | Capture Selected Region to Clipboard | |
| 20 | Some Actions | Invoke Animation |
| Shift-Some Actions | Invoke Slow-Motion | |
| 21 | Command-Option-8 | Toggle Zoom Mode |
| Command-Option-Control-8 | Invert Display Color | |
| 22 | Click Dock Icon | Launch Application |
| Command-Click | Open Application's Enclosing Folder | |
| Control-Click | Show Item's Contextual Menu | |
| Option-Click | Switch Application and Hide Current | |
| Command-Option-Click | Switch Application and Hide All Others | |
| 23 | Command-S | Save |
| Command-Shift-S | Save As… | |
| Command-S (Terminal) | Export Terminal Output | |
| Command-Shift-S | Export Selected Terminal Text | |
| 24 | Command-T | Open New Tab |
| Command-Shift-T | Toggle Hide/Show Tab Bar | |
| Command-T (Finder) | Add to Sidebar | |
| Command-Shift-T | Add to Favorites | |
| 25 | Tab | Select Next Input Field |
| Shift-Tab | Select Previous Input Field | |
| Command-Tab | Switch to Next Running Application | |
| Command-Shift-Tab | Switch to Previous Running Application | |
| 26 | K | Input a character 'K' |
| Option-Shift-K | Draw Apple logo | |
| 27 | Control-Eject | Show Restart, Sleep, Shutdown Dialog Box |
| Command-Control-Eject | Quit All Applications and Restart | |
| Command-Option-Control-Eject | Quit All Applications and Shut Down | |
| Command-Option-Eject | Sleep | |
| 28 | Command-D | Duplicate Items |
| Command-Option-D | Show/Hide Dock | |
| Command-Control-D | Show Word Definition |
Inside the table, there are 80+ keyboard shortcuts, but you only need to remember 20+ of them and apply some modifier keys for various situations. It's less painful than having to memorize all of them.
Of course, that table alone won't be quite informative for you. Here are several important information regarding to some keyboard shortcuts.
By using the same basic keyboard shortcuts Command-I, you can make a variation on what kinds of information you want your Mac to display.
With a simple change of your Mac modifier keys, you will notice that there exist a slight different in getting the information of your files but obviously it adds a huge difference to your productivity.
Force Quit is the Mac term for Windows CTRL-ALT-DEL in a slightly more stylish manner.
This will be the most essential operation. Do you know that there are two kinds of searching purposes ever exist on your Mac?
Everyone should already know Quick Look, how cool it is and with Spacebar or keystrokes Command-Y it can be invoked. But maybe you don't know this, by adding a modifier key Option in front, you can change the behavior into displaying Slideshow view, which is the full screen mode of Quick Look.
This is an interesting shortcut. With Command-Delete, you can delete selected files, after that what you would actually do? Empty the trash is the answer; Apple's programmers figure it out beforehand and assign keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-Delete to empty trash, for the continuation of deleting files.
There is one important thing that you need to know here: they're two different places to store copied text and copied font style.
Maybe, you're a bit curious why they should design in such a way that there are three behaviors of going to enclosing folder. Here I will share you what I usually do with these different techniques.
Some actions are including:
All of the actions mentioned above can be animated in slow-motion mode.
This is the example of the phenomenon that Apple has run out of available keyboard shortcut to be used. We can't draw any connections between these three actions.
It's not just the operating system you use. It's how you use it.
It's not just how you use it. It's how you master it.
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