It’s time to be more efficient with my top 5 productivity tips for Google Chrome.
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I’m Tasia Custode and welcome back to my YouTube Channel where I share tech tips, app
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Now, let’s talk Google Chrome productivity, shall we?
Tip number 1: Quickly search and find tabs.
If you’re like me and you keep a lot of tabs and windows open, this tip is for you.
So here we are in Chrome and I’m in one of my 2 open windows and I want to quickly
find an open tab, but I don’t want to search through all my other open tabs to get to it.
We can just hit command t to open a new tab.
And here just start typing the name of the tab, and in the results here, if you see it
just hit tab to get to it and hit enter.
You’ll be brought right to your tab of choice.
Now, of course, there is another way to do this too.
You can hit the downward facing arrow in the top right to search or select a tab from the
list on the right.
Tip number 2: Bookmark Tabs Together.
This will help you get back to any related tabs much quicker, plus it’s a great organization
tip too.
So let’s say you’ve got multiple tabs open for one project you’re working on.
You can just right click on the window and select bookmark all tabs and then save all
these tabs to a folder.
So, you’d name the folder whatever works for you.
When you’re done renaming just click save.
And now here under the browser bar, you’ll have your newly created folder where you can
easily access all related tabs.
So, now, you’ll be able to get back to this folder whenever you want or if you right click
you can delete the folder if you’re all done with that project.
Tip number 3: Use custom search engines in Google Chrome.
I’ve talked about this one before in another Chrome features video, but it bears repeating.
So you can search a specific website without having to manually go to that website first.
So let’s head up to our trusty address bar here, and we’ll begin by typing in the website
we want to search in.
So I’ll type youtube here and now on the right hand side Chrome is telling me to press
tab to search within Youtube.
So, let’s press tab and of course I’ll search Montreal Canadiens, and hit enter and
I’m instantly brought to YouTube video search for the term Montreal canadiens without having
to first go to YouTube.
This works for wikipedia or any other site that has search.
And, if for some reason it’s not working for you, you may need to add the search engine
of your choice first.
Luckily, you’ll only have to do it once, so here’s how to do that.
Say you want to be able to search wikipedia right from here too.
Head to wikipedia.org and type in a random one-word search and make sure you misspell
it.
So I’ll type in hockey with two y’s.
Now, copy this search string in the address bar using command c.
If you didn’t misspell your term, you’ll get an actual search result, and that’s
not what we want right now.
So with his copied, head to your three dot menu icon and click on settings.
From here, click on ‘search engines’ on the left.
Now, click ‘manage search engines.
Now here, beside other search engines, click add.
Now will this in for what you’re adding.
So for this we are adding wikipedia.
I want the keyword to be just wiki because that’s even shorter.
And now let’s hit command v to paste that search string here where it wants the URL.
And now look, Chrome tells us to replace the search term with percentage s.
So, let’s do that here, delete hockey with two y’s and replace that with the percentage
symbol and s.
Now just click ‘add’ and you’ll be all set!
Moving on to Chrome productivity tip number 4: Add articles to reading list.
So, you all may remember I’m a big fan of the Pocket extensions that allows you to save
articles to read for later, well, you can do that too right within Chrome itself.
So let’s say we’re on an article here, but we don’t have time to read it right
now.
Click on the bookmark option, but instead of bookmarking this tab, let’s go ahead
and click on ‘add to reading list’.
You’ll now get this ‘reading list’ button on the bookmarks bar and if you click on it,
you can access all the saved articles.
Pages will be organized by read and unread, and can be deleted right from here too.
Pretty neat, thanks Chrome.
And rounding out our list at number 5: Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts.
There are so many, but here are my favorites for productivity.
Command T will open a tab.
Command W will close a tab.
Hit Command Shift T to open up the last closed tab - which is so helpful if you accidentally
close a tab.
Command L will highlight the address bar text, so you can easily copy it if needed.
If you need to zoom in hit command plus, and to zoom out, hit command minus and a little
popup will briefly appear to tell you if you’re zoomed in or not.
Hit command and just click on a link to automatically open the link in a new tab, rather than having
to right click on the link first.
And, if you want to hide your bookmarks bar, just hit command shift B to hide it and the
same shortcut will bring it right back for ya.
So now I want to hear from you.
What are your favorite productivity tips for Google Chrome?
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