Keyboard shortcuts might sound too “geeky” for you, but I think learning them is one of the best investment of your time, as long as if you spend at least a few hours a day in front of the computer.
When we work, we are concentrated on your tasks and we don’t pay attention to small details. In our occasion (pair programming with a colleague), I observed how not knowing a simple shortcut ended up taking 5 minutes to find a file by name, instead of a couple of seconds needed by knowing the shortcut (for which there was no menu option). Repeat this for 20 times a day by and all the shortcuts you don’t know, and that means you’ve lost 1h a day doing annoying stuff.
Spend some time learning, and your wrist will be happier too.
Here some shortcuts I’ve recently learnt and I find useful. Some of them apply anywhere you write a text in MxcOsx, some others on chrome, some others on youtube (therefore should work on Windows too).
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CMD + ;
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cycle through misspelt words (works anywhere, including browser tab)
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CMD + 1
CMD + 2 … |
chome: jump to 1st tab
chrome: jump to 2nd tab … |
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ALT + BACK
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delete entire last word
(works anywhere, including browser tab)
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SHIFT + ALT + volume up/down
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increase/decrease the volume in smaller amounts
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ALT+CTRL+Y
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finder: slideshow full screen using the selected images
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| SHIFT + >, SHIFT + < c f SHIFT + p SHIFT + n |
youtube: increase/decrease speed youtube: toggle captions youtube: fullscreen youtube: previous/next in playlist |
Full list of mac shortcuts here
If you want a keyboard skin cover with shortcuts, check this and this one