10 MUST-KNOW Macbook Tips for Productivity!
About this video
Jeff Su shares ten MacBook productivity tips. First, customize the default blue folder icon by pressing Command+I for folder info, copying an image with Command+A and Command+C, selecting the icon at the top left, and pasting with Command+V; he offers light and dark PNG icons he made and points to flaticon.com and the nounproject.com as other sources. He then shows disabling Caps Lock via System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys set to No Action if you never use it, cleaning up System Preferences via View > Customize to deselect pages you never use, and holding Option while clicking Sound in the menu bar to switch inputs and outputs quickly, with Shift+Option giving granular volume and brightness control. Other tips include holding Command to move background windows without selecting them, unchecking automatically hide and show the menu bar in full screen under Dock & Menu Bar preferences so the menu bar stays visible, and in Finder using Command+C then Command+Option+V to move a file instead of copying it. He also covers using Command+Tab with the up or down arrow to see all open windows of an app, pressing Space to preview files and arrow through a list — including copying text highlighted inside an image preview — and using right-click Quick Actions > Convert Image to shrink photos from around 1.5 megabytes to about a tenth of the size. A bonus tip covers taking a full-page screenshot in Chrome without a third-party extension, as a free alternative to CleanShot X, using Command+Option+I for developer tools and Shift+Command+P to run Capture node screenshot.
Key takeaways
- Change a folder icon via Command+I, then copy an image and paste it onto the icon at the top left
- Disable Caps Lock in Keyboard modifier keys and customize System Preferences to hide pages you never use
- Hold Option and click Sound in the menu bar to switch audio devices; Shift+Option gives finer volume and brightness steps
- Move files in Finder with Command+C followed by Command+Option+V instead of copying and deleting the original
- Use Quick Actions > Convert Image to shrink large photos to about a tenth of their original size before sharing
Episode details: published September 6, 2022 · 6:31 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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