macOS shortcuts

Shortcuts for taking advantage of the native Shortcuts actions for Mac apps.

Use these shortcuts to manage your daily experience on the Mac.
Open and activate your apps, hide or kill processes that you don’t need, and quickly control your screen connections.

Open Mac app

Picks from a dictionary of Mac apps and their IDs, then uses SSH to remotely open the app on the Mac.

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Open Menu Bar apps

Opens various apps you want running in the Menu Bar like Alfred, Plex, or 1Password.

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Hide all apps

Use this shortcut to hide—but not quit—all your active applications.

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Quit all apps

Closes all applications running on your Mac.

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Start Screen Saver

Starts the screen saver on the current Mac.

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Check my processes

Opens the Activity Monitor app to see actively-running processes.

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Change my System Preferences

Opens System Preferences on the Mac or Settings on iOS.

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Open Mastodon development

Opens the Developement section of Mastodon settings to your Applications.

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Current hydration

Displays the current hydration values from Waterminder.

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Check the Front Page

Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.

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