

To prevent your Mac launching one of these functions when you don't want it to, you should hold down a modifier button (Control, Alt, Command) for each corner as you set the function. You can also define the functions you want for each corner here. Open System Preferences, select Mission Control and tap Hot Corners and you’ll see how the ones you currently have are configured on your Mac.
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Take control of Hot Corners on Macĭoes your Mac do things you don’t want it to do when your pointer hits the corner of the display? Here’s how to take better control of this and make Hot Corners useful to you. Here’s a short tutorial on how to use Smart Folders.
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Once you create a Smart Folder it will automatically update itself with any relevant new files you add. They’ve been part of the Mac for decades and can do useful things such as finding work completed in the last month, documents and more. Smart Folders are a useful way to automate project management. If you do, you can swiftly switch between them using a left or right swipe with four fingers. Switch between Spaces: You really should use Spaces.Show Desktop: Too many windows in the way? Spread with thumb and three fingers on the touchpad.Open Launchpad fast: Pinch with thumb and three fingers to open Lauchpad to select an application you want to open.There are three main families: Point & Click, Scroll & Zoom, and More Gestures and they can do a variety of useful things, for example: Select each one to see a short demonstration of how it works. You can access a tutorial to show you all the ways you can use this on your Mac in System Preferences>Trackpad where you’ll find all the gestures yours supports. I think most Mac users working from home probably have access to a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, both of which support MultiTouch. Not the item you needed? Press the Space bar to lose the preview and choose another item. Select an item in Finder and then press the Space bar, a preview of the item will appear. You don’t need to open a file to check its contents, use QuickLook instead. I find it convenient to gather these in a Snippets folder I keep as a Favorite in Finder. A text snippet will be created there, to drop it into anything just drag and drop the snippet into an app.Select some text you use regularly and drag and drop it to your Desktop.Text clippings are a great way to automatically paste regularly used text into any app, and don’t require as much thought as text replacement on Mac. Just click on a Stack to find what’s inside it. Your Mac will immediately tidy your Desktop into useful stacks, grouped by file type. Just tap an empty section of your Desktop, select the View menu and choose Use Stacks. Apple knows this and introduced a handy feature called Stacks to organize all this clutter for us.

We all strive to keep our Desktop tidy – and most of us fail. The fastest way to rename a file or folder in Finder? Select it, press Return, and you’ll be in the text entry mode for that item so you can immediately type the new name.
