Wayne Priestley

After a week of using the previous shortcuts I’ve mentioned so far, I have to say that it’s working out okay.

I think a week is long enough to get familiar with the shortcut and to allow your hands to get used to using them.

This weeks shortcuts are:

CMD + DELETE, ⌘ ⌫
CMD Delete moves the selected item to trash.

SHIFT + CMD + A, ⇧ ⌘ A
Shift CMD and the letter A opens your Applications folder.

I’ve decided to make more use of keyboard shortcuts on my Mac.

My reasons for this are two fold.

To speed up my workflow and more importantly these days, to reduce the risk of RSA from the constant use of my mouse.
I have already replaced my old mouse with the more comfortable VX Revolution, this had made some difference but getting away from using the mouse as often as I do is the main aim.

I’m planning on trying to master a few different shortcuts during the course of a week as a way of trying to remember them.

This weeks shortcuts are:

CMD TAB, ⌘ ⇥

The CMD TAB key is the application switcher shortcut, used to easily switch between running applications on the Mac these keys bring up a bar like view showing all applications running, allowing selection from left to right, using the SHIFT key ⇧ along with CMD TAB allows application switching from right to left.




The second shortcut is:

CMD H, ⌘ H
CMD H will hide any open application on the Mac, thus allowing the application to be opened again using the CMD TAB shortcut.
If an open application is closed by clicking the red button in the top left corner, then the CMD TAB shortcut will not re-open the app.

Next is:

SHIFT CMD H, ⇧ ⌘ H when in Safari.
An application specific shortcut, SHIFT CMD H takes you back to your Homepage, Google in my case.