And live happily ever after
Remember when you got your first Mac? Possibly, you used to change input language from the menu bar instead of using a keyboard shortcut. Sigh. Of course, once you master macOS, you accelerate. But why not speed up the things you do 457 times a day right away? Here are the top five time boosters.
Schedule meetings faster
Do you open Calendar to create a new meeting? No need! With Dato, you can schedule events from the menu bar.
Dato also lets you quickly see your schedule and check the time zones in different locations — all from the menu bar.
Share display settings
If you have two or more monitors, DisplayBuddy is going to be your best buddy. It lets you customize display settings (contrast, brightness, and volume) across all your displays.
You can even save presets to apply the same settings over and over!
Stop typing the same things
You’ll be surprised by how often you type the same phrases throughout the day. Rocket Typist will help you create text snippets you can reuse to save time.
Here are a few ideas for time-saving text snippets:
- Dates (your birthday date, an important deadline, etc.)
- Names, addresses, and any contact details
- Have-to-look-that-up technical terms
- All the “how are you” and “best regards”
- Email templates.
Auto-join meetings
If you have online calls but still don’t have In Your Face, please fix it today. In Your Face is the best shortcut to meetings, letting you auto-join from a handy full-screen alert. The app makes it almost impossible to be late for meetings — we wish we had it earlier.
Bookmark anything
Browser bookmarking is tedious. We suggest Paste — it saves everything you copy, so you can just copy the URL, image, or text to bookmark it.
Copy the full text of an article or web page if you like checking your bookmarks when you don’t have an internet connection (aka on a plane).
Hope this how-to will help you solve tasks faster, and enjoy solving them, too! Check out more how-tos picked for you below.
