You know how sometimes you want to quickly find the file path in finder?
Well, you can actually change a setting in Finder to show the path bar and status bar
automatically.
From Finder, head to view in the top menu bar, then toggle on the option to show path
bar and toggle on the option to show status bar.
Now, you’ll be able to see the exact file path, so where a file is located, as well
as how much space you have left.
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Hey friends!
I’m Tasia Custode and welcome back to my YouTube Channel where I share tech tips and
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In today’s video, I’m going to show you the top MacBook settings to change to save
you time and increase you’re productivity.
So, let’s jump back into the list!
So let’s stay in Finder a bit and explore another key setting.
We’re going to change an advanced search setting.
So let’s head up to our Finder preferences and go to the advanced tab.
Here, underneath the ‘when performing a search’ option, I’d recommend changing
it to search the current folder and not search this Mac.
Because how many times have you wanted to search in the folder you already have open
in Finder, only to have your search default to your entire Mac?
No, just me?
Well, it drives me batty, and this is how to change that.
So now when you perform a search, by default it will search the current folder first, and
you’ll still have the option to search the entire mac if you want to.
Okay, another quick Finder tip is to quickly open a file with a default app.
So you know how sometimes you go to open something and you get an error that the file can’t
be opened in that app?
Well, you can bypass this altogether by setting a default app to open with.
There are actually a couple of ways to do this.
First, and quickest is to simply right-click on a file and hover over open with, but instead
of clicking on this, hold down option, it changes to always open with.
Then, you’d just select the app you want to always open that file with.
But, you could also select the file then hit command i, and in this pop up, under open
with, simply select the app you want to have open the file instead, and click on change
all.
But there are even more ways to save time in Finder.
So, normally, you have to manually click to expand folder views one level at a time, until
you find what it is you’re looking for.
Well, you can do this a lot quicker by holding option and then just clicking to expand the
top folder.
Now, you’ve expanded all those folder levels and files at once.
But wait there’s more!
You can also use the option key to quickly close all windows in an application at once.
So, using our Finder example, if you’re anything like me you have too many Finder
windows open at any given time.
Don’t judge.
Well, instead of manually closing out each of these finder windows and wasting time,
we can just hit our trusty option key and click the red x on one of the windows and
blamo, all the open finder windows are closed at once just like that.
And remember this works for any app where you have multiple windows open at once.
Okay, one of the first things I’ve always any time I’ve gotten a new Mac is to set
up hot corners.
I love hot corners so much and I don’t know why more people don’t use them.
For this, we’ll head to mission control and select hot corners in the bottom left.
This will allow us to take an action when we drag our mouse to the corner of our screen.
So you can set all four corners to take a different action.
So you can see how mine are set up here with mission control, screen saver, quick note,
and sleep, but you’ve got a ton of other options to choose from so pick whichever function
works best for you.
So as an example, I’m constantly using hot corners to start my screen saver and put my
display to sleep with a quick swipe of the mouse.
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And now that’s out of the way, let’s switch gears a little bit and talk about how to quickly
change an image size on a mac.
So when you open a photo using preview, you can head to the markup icon at the top and
then head to the adjust size option and now we can change the actual size of the file.
You’ll want to make sure the proportions stay the same, which should be toggled on
by default, then you can adjust the size as needed.
And speaking of images.
Something else I find I have to do often is export PNG files from a PDF or vice versa.
So, when you’re in a PDF document, you can head up to file, then export, then export
as png.
So now, that pdf file is a png image.
But we can do this in reverse too.
We can select multiple photos and right click, then hover over quick actions and then select
create pdf.
Now, you have a PDF file with all the images.
Plus, you can drag and drop these images in the pdf file in whatever order you want.
Alright, so if your love of emojis is strong like mine is, you need to use this emoji keyboard
shortcut.
All you have to do is hit command control space to bring up the emoji picker and then
you can pick whatever emoji you want, either via scrolling or using the quick search bar
at the top.
And quick tip!
I have found that this little trick stopped working in Google Docs.
It used to work for me in there and hasn’t in a very long time now.
So, I want you to let me know if your emoji keyboard picker is still working in Google
docs for you.
Weirdly enough, it still works everywhere else for me including in Google Calendar.
So, this one remains a mystery at least for now.
And last but certainly not least is one of the best updates to come to Mac since, well,
the invention of macs.
If you have macOS Monterey 12 or later, you can mirror your iPhone to your mac.
So here’s how to mirror iPhone to mac.
Head to your apple menu and select system preferences.
From here click sharing then select airplay receiver.
To the left, you want to ensure airplay receiver is toggled on.
Here, you can choose to allow airplay just for current user, anyone on the network or
everyone - I recommend current user only.
And you can also require a password if you want.
So now, when you’re playing a video on your iPhone from the Apple TV app or another supported
video app, just tap on the airplay icon and select your mac to mirror the video to.
And by the way, this works with photos as well.
From the photo, tap share in the bottom left, then scroll up and select airplay then select
your mac.
Now your photo will display on your mac and as you swipe through your photos app, the
photos will change on your mac for you.
To stop streaming your photos, tap the airplay option at the top of you iPhone screen and
tap turn off airplay.
And by the way, if you haven’t upgraded to macOS Monterey yet, I’ve got a handy
video on what to do before upgrading that you can watch via the link below.
So these are just my favorite top 10 MacBook tips for productivity.
There are a ton more and I want you to comment below with your favorites.
So, what do you think of these MacBook tips for productivity?
Will they help you increase Macbook efficiency?
Let me know in the comments below!
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