Many of us spend a lot of our time at our computers. Yet how efficiently do we really use them? Memorizing the most useful keyboard commands might save you minutes a day. Here are some of the most useful ones I’ve found:
- Switch windows within a single application (Command-` on Mac)
- Paste while using the formatting of the document you’re pasting into (Command-Option-Shift-V on Mac)
- Skip to next/previous email in the Gmail email client (k and j once you turn on Gmail key commands)
- Show desktop (F11 on Mac , Windows logo key + D on PC)
- Switch to the last application (Command-Tab on Mac)
- Search your computer (Command-Spacebar on Mac)
- Jump to the right/left/top/bottom edge of text (Command + an arrow key on Mac)
- Jump over a word of text (Option + an arrow key on Mac)
- Next page (Spacebar on Mac)
- Search a website without going to it (type the beginning of the website name in the Chrome URL bar then, once you see it autocomplete correctly, hit tab, then you can search that website even though you haven’t gone to it yet!)
- Bookmark the current webpage (Command-D on Mac)
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