![]() They’re a quick way of getting to your most important applications or functions, like opening Notes, Mission Control, showing your Desktop or switching to App Windows.Īnother extremely versatile feature of macOS are Hot Corners. This gives you an extra dimension of navigation over Task View another way of getting around quickly.Īnother extremely versatile feature of macOS are Hot Corners. Not only do I use Mission Control to switch apps as I would with Task View, I also use it to recall whatever I’ve minimized, as I often forget. Mission Control, though, is more useful in a rapid navigational scenario because it also shows you everything you’ve minimized. ![]() Both are very handy for switching between apps quickly and organizing apps into overarching desktops. One of my favorite features of both operating systems is Task View on Windows, or Mission Control on macOS. (Image credit: Future)Īdd to these things macOS’ navigational features, and it’s an OS that is - at the risk of sounding like I’m doing an icky Apple product launch - much more intuitive to get around than Windows. Mission Control takes it one step further than Task View, bringing up your Dock to give you a preview of your minimized windows. On balance, though, macOS offers me more in the way of nifty, time-saving tools. It was a joy to copy several URLs, for example, and then paste them all into a new article in one go. In reality, this isn't something I used constantly on Windows, but when you really need it, it's great to have it there to avoid having to go back and forth recopying and pasting things between apps. One function that I miss after my move to Mac is clipboard history - where Windows stores the last 10 copied items. I resent not having it when I move files on Windows, where I have to create a new folder and then drag everything in: more steps to get the same result. ![]() It’s a tiny feature, but speeds up moving files from one place to another and makes my photography workflow in particular just that little bit smoother. ![]() (Image credit: Future)Īnd not to forget the little Finder function that allows you to create a new folder with all of the items you've selected, which are automatically moved into it. The New Folder with Selection function is really useful, saving you time creating new folders with a selection of files. In my role as Cameras editor here at TG, this feature is indispensable when dealing with hundreds of image files from a product or test shoot. This is something which, to my knowledge, is not possible in Windows, at least not without third-party software. You can also append to the front or back of filenames, or quickly find and replace characters if you realize you made a typo. It lets you format as many filenames as you like in preset or custom formats, adding indexing before or afterward. You can, of course, install PowerToys and use the renaming tool included, but as made clear at the start of this article, this is a comparison between stock features only, as my Mac cannot have third party applications installed due to being a corporate machine.Īs such, renaming is easier on macOS to begin with - to rename a single file, just hit enter! To rename bulk files, you use the renaming tool, which is fantastic and highly underrated. You choose a filename and Windows renames all files to that, appending with an (n). Windows allows you to rename batches of files easily, but it’s a blunt instrument. The renaming tool in macOS is extremely powerful, allowing you to rename files in a variety of ways on a large scale.
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