# Top 20 MacBook Tips for Productivity!

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Jeff Su
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B2kPVvyjbU
- **Дата:** 22.02.2022
- **Длительность:** 8:56
- **Просмотры:** 616,196
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/2998

## Описание

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Adopt the settings changes I go through in this Top 20 MacBook Tips for Productivity video to permanently increase your efficiency with your Mac!

Then, practice the MacBook tips and tricks I go through (hint: option key is super super useful) to get things done in a fraction of the time ⏰

We’ll go through basic Mac settings changes (like showing path and status bars in finder) all the way to advanced tips like how to present your iPhone screen during your next video conference meeting

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Open with Default App
00:39 Show Path Bar & Status Bar
00:55 Finder Preferences: General
01:10 Finder Preferences: Tags & Sidebar
01:26 Finder Preferences: Advanced 
01:45 Moving Files between Folders
01:59 Enable Battery Percentage on Mac
02:25 MacBook Dock Productivity Tips
02:47 MacBook Option Key Productivity Tips
03:54 Add Library Folder to Sidebar on M

## Транскрипт

### Open with Default App []

you know when you're trying to open a file on your macbook and you remember you're only supposed to open it with another app like so well to never waste time doing that ever again with the file selected press command i open up this window here under open with select the default app you want to use moving forward and press change all pretty simple right let's get started hi friends welcome back to channel if you're a macbook user we're going over eight settings changes that will permanently speed up your workflow and 12 tips you can use every day to increase your productivity on this overpriced i mean lovely machine staying within finder

### Show Path Bar & Status Bar [0:39]

under view you want to show both the path bar and the status bar this lets you see exactly where you are in the file management hierarchy and how much space you have left without having to dig around for it because this is now enabled under finder preferences

### Finder Preferences: General [0:55]

general tab i actually uncheck open folders and tab instead of new windows since i could just click the path to go back to the previous folder when i open new finder windows i also like to see my documents folder instead of the recent folder under tags if

### Finder Preferences: Tags & Sidebar [1:10]

you're like me and don't use tags you can uncheck all of them here or just leave the ones you do use and for sidebar i like to keep mine as clean as possible so i uncheck the ones i never use feel free to just pause the video and copy my settings here and under

### Finder Preferences: Advanced [1:26]

advanced the only thing i change is search the current folder instead of search this mac this means whenever i search for something like so it will only search within that folder instead of this entire mac which will actually give me irrelevant results pro tip for accuracy i haven't seen anyone else mention if you're trying to move a

### Moving Files between Folders [1:45]

document between folders like this it's actually very easy to drop it into the wrong one but if you move the cursor to the right to one of these info columns you're actually now able to drop it into the top level folder without any issues

### Enable Battery Percentage on Mac [1:59]

last macbook setting to change under system preferences go to dock and menu bar battery all the way down here and enable show percentage i don't know why apple makes the simple feature so hard to find by the way i do have a no bs newsletter called the productivity ping i send you one practical tip and one keyboard shortcut every other week so sign up for that if you're interested link down below moving over to macbook tips and tricks for productivity starting with the dock first you can actually change

### MacBook Dock Productivity Tips [2:25]

the position of the dock by holding down shift and dragging the line like so second you can right click on the vertical line to access docs settings instead of having to go through system preferences and within dot preferences i like to disable show recent applications in dock to keep this clean this is a nice segue into the option key tips because if i hold down

### MacBook Option Key Productivity Tips [2:47]

option command i can drag the downloads folder and create a download alias folder i can now drag this download alias folder into the dock and this is nice to have because i believe by default the downloads folder within the dock opens in a weird stack way that i don't really like and now i can just delete the download alias folder here and this remains where it is similar to the first tip of this video if you right-click on a file to open with another app you can actually just hold down option and this changes to always open with if you want to quickly make a copy of a file hold down option and drag the file down or to another folder normally you expand folder views one level at a time like this but if you hold down option and click you expand all child folders and files immediately and for almost every menu tab up here if you hold down option you'll see hidden directories or new functions this is very useful the next time you come across a help center article or tutorial telling you to go into a folder you can't seem to find clearly not jeff's two standard but by holding down option you might be able to

### Add Library Folder to Sidebar on Mac [3:54]

locate it on that note the hidden library folder is actually very useful for us to access regularly this under go hold down option and you'll see it open library go to file and add this to sidebar so you can navigate back to this easily pro tip the font folder is actually in your library and this is where you can add or delete fonts used on your mac to wrap this part up by holding down option and clicking the red x button you close all windows for a given application moving on here's a

### Present iPhone Screen on Mac [4:20]

macbook productivity tip very few people know about and that is if you connect your iphone to your mac using a cable open up quicktime player file new movie recording and here you can actually select your iphone screen like so now you can make recordings of your iphone directly on your mac and doing virtual meetings present your quicktime player window which is now your iphone screen for product demos command shift 5 brings

### Default Screen Recorder on Mac [4:48]

up the default macbook screen recorder and under options you can actually choose where you want to save the screen recording to the timer choose a microphone if you have different peripherals plugged in and show mouse clicks for a better viewer experience

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### Change Image Size on Mac [5:49]

yourself back to macbook specific tips after opening an image or photo using preview i can click markup edit size and now i can decrease the size of this file if i need this below 500 kilobytes for example i can change the width to something like i don't know 17. the proportions stay the same but now it's only 486 kilobytes i can press ok command s to save and there you go while

### Create PDF from Images [6:14]

we're talking about images you can hold down command select multiple images right click quick actions and create pdf and in this pdf file you can actually move the pages around like so and press command s to save your changes

### Export Images to PDF [6:31]

alternatively after opening a pdf document you go to file export png to create an image file from all the pdf pages like so this is especially useful if you're uploading documents to a website that only accept a certain file type and although i don't really use keynote pages or numbers because google workspace is the best place okay remember you can export keynote

### Export from Keynote, Pages, Numbers [6:59]

presentations uh as powerpoint documents uh pages into uh doc and um numbers into excel i'm having way too much fun with this video

### Force Quit Applications on Mac [7:10]

all right next macbook tip if the program stops responding you have three ways to deal with it first you can bring up activity monitor select the apple process and click stop by the way i use a free app called alfred instead of a default spotlight so let me know if you want a video on all the apps i use on the mac second you can hold down the command option escape keys and force quit the application that way or finally you can actually go down to the dock right click and actually hold down option and force quit that way basically the option key gives you a lot of options i gotta end this video if you're

### Check MacBook Warranty & Support [7:47]

selling a macbook or buying one second hand go up to the apple logo here about this mac copy the serial number here go to checkcovers. apple. com paste in your serial number input this code click continue and this shows you whether your support and warranty have expired moving over to the keyboard this is how delete works on

### Function + Delete on Mac [8:07]

a mac right but if you hold down function you can actually delete like you would on a pc very useful if you're trying to get rid of the top line those of you who have never used a pc before probably don't even know what i'm

### Accented Alphabet Characters [8:22]

talking about next you can long press a key to reveal accented alphabet characters like so command control space to bring up the

### Quick Access Emojis [8:28]

searchable emoji bar and of course the secret shortcut apple

### Secret Apple Logo Shortcut [8:33]

employees are forced to use every day to pledge their allegiance option shift k to input the apple logo just kidding mr cook love your products if you enjoyed these 20 or so macbook tips for productivity you might enjoy my video on keyboard shortcuts i use every day see you on the next video and in the meantime have a great one