The Ultimate Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcut Guide

If there’s one reason I’m not as productive on an iPad as I am on the Mac, it’s keyboard shortcuts. I’m lost without keyboard shortcuts. If I’m launching or quitting an app, finding a specific file, editing text, entering passwords, emptying the trash, starting a new blog post, or almost anything else I do on the Mac, I’m using the keyboard, not my touchpad. iOS has the same great selection of Mac text editing shortcuts (which are awesome, and the lack of them on Windows makes me have an even harder time using a PC), but OS X and the extra tools like Alfred and native Mac apps like Ulysses’ tendency to have a ton of power-user keyboard shortcuts makes me so much more productive. And, the fact you can customize keyboard shortcuts make me feel even more lost on anyone else’s machine.

So there’s an ode to keyboard shortcuts. They’re awesome, and if you’re not a Mac keyboard shortcut power user yet, Matt Gemmell just put together the nicest guide to OS X keyboard shortcuts yet. It’s got tons of great keyboard shortcuts, including ones I’d never noticed before, all illustrated to make them easier to use. It even digs into great Alfred shortcuts to speed you up even more with it. Go check it out, and bookmark it, and watch your productivity soar.

For more keyboard shortcut goodness, there’s a Tuts+ guide with even more shortcuts for Finder, and another Tuts+ guide to changing your keyboard shortcuts if you’d prefer different ones from the defaults.

Continue reading at http://mattgemmell.com/mac-keyboard-shortcuts/

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