It’s Time to Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Improve Your Work Efficiency

Learn keyboard shortcuts and become a pro

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Last week, I bought a mechanical keyboard and started to think it’s time to reduce my dependence on the mouse and to increase working productivity and efficiency.

A study says if your job requires you to be working on a computer throughout each standard 8-hour workday, then using keyboard shortcuts can save you 8 entire workdays every year. This is equal to 3.3% of your total productivity!

So in this post, I will list my most commonly used keyboard shortcuts and hope they will help everyone work efficiently.

Content

• Introduction of Mac Special keys
• Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts
• System Keyboard Shortcuts
• Text-input Keyboard Shortcuts

Special Keys

First up, let’s have a look at the Mac keyboard in front of you to familiarize yourself with a few special keys.

• ⌘: Command (CMD) key:
• ⌥: Option (ALT) key
• ⌃: Control (Ctrl) key
• Fn: Function key
• ⇥: Tab key
• ⇧: Shift key