by Terry McAdams | May 11, 2021 | keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Tip
When you copy text from a Web page, PDF, or word processing document, macOS usually includes the associated formatting, so the words you paste may end up in 68-point blue italic if that was what the source text looked like. That’s often undesirable. More commonly, you...
by Terry McAdams | Feb 3, 2020 | keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Tip
Power users like keyboard shortcuts because it’s faster to press a couple of keys than to navigate lengthy menus. If you have trouble remembering shortcuts, check out KeyCue, which displays a concise table of all currently available shortcuts. But what about menu...
by Terry McAdams | Sep 14, 2019 | keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Tip
Traditionally, extended keyboards come with a Forward Delete key that, when you press it, deletes characters to the right of the insertion point, unlike the main Delete key, which deletes to the left of the insertion point. Forward Delete still exists on Apple’s Magic...
by Lucy McAdams | Mar 30, 2018 | keyboard shortcut, Mac, Reminders
With Apple’s productivity apps like Calendar, Contacts, Notes, and Reminders, which look and work pretty much the same on the Mac and in iOS, what you see is largely what you get. Particularly in iOS, they tend not to have much in the way of hidden depths. With...
by Lucy McAdams | Jul 19, 2017 | Dictionary, keyboard shortcut, Mac
You’re probably used to Mac apps using red underlines to mark misspelled words, but did you know that macOS has long included a fully featured Dictionary app as well? It provides quick access to definitions and synonyms in the New Oxford American Dictionary and the...
by Lucy McAdams | Jun 29, 2017 | iOS, keyboard shortcut, Tip
If you’re thinking, “Why yes, I do know that in iOS a double-tap on the Space bar after typing a word inserts a period and then a space,” award yourself a virtual gold star. If you weren’t aware of that super useful trick, well, you are now. Getting to the Period key...
