Check Apple’s Mac keyboard shortcuts for the usual suspects.

Here are some of my favorites.

Keyboard Symbols

  • ⇧ Shift
  • ⌃ Control
  • ⌥ Option
  • ⌘ Command

General Shortcuts

Shortcut ▶️ Purpose – Hints are nested

Global

  • ⌥ F2     Open the display section of system preferences.
  • ⌘ ⌥ H M     Minimize all windows
  • ⌘ L     While in the system preferences go to the main page
  • ⌘ Space     Open spotlight search
  • ⌘ ⌥ d     Toggle the dock auto hide feature, helps with hiding the dock temporarily
  • ⌘ ⌥ H-M     Minimize all windows and show the desktop
  • Fn Right Arrow     End of line
  • ⌘ ⌥+     Zoom in any app
  • ⌘ ⌥     Zoom out any app
  • ⌘ ⌥ d     Look up selected word definition
  • ⌥ ⇧ [-]     Em Dash
  • ⌥ [-]     En Dash
  • Right ⌘ ⌘     Start dictation (voice to text) (configured in Keyboard)

Finder

  • ⌘ o     Open folder
  • Ctrl ⌘ o     Open Finder in the same folder
    • Check Open folders ⌥ in Finder -> Preferences to open in a new window instead of a tab
  • ⌘ Up Arrow     Moves up one directory in finder
  • ⌘ Down Arrow     Moves down one directory in finder
  • ⇧ ⌘ .     Show hidden files
  • ⇧ ⌘ g     Go to folder
  • ⌘ o     Open the selected file
  • ⌘ Up Arrow     Open the parent folder
  • ⌘ ⌥ c     Copy the path of the selected file or folder
  • ⌘ ⌥ v     Paste a copied folder to move the copied folder (faster)

More Finder Shortcuts..

Writing Shortcuts

When writing stories.

  • ⌥ [     Left double quotation mark (“)
  • ⌥ ⇧ [     Right double quotation mark (”)
  • ⌥ -     En dash (–)
  • ⌥ ⇧ -     Em dash (—)
  • ⌥ ;     Ellipsis (…)