Master Quick Actions

Make your Mac life even easier with the power of Actions

Carrie Marshall

IT WILL TAKE15 minutes YOU WILL LEARNHow to add useful Actions to Finder YOU’LL NEEDmacOS 12 or later macOS is full of useful things, but it’s not always obvious where they are. For example, one of the really cool features in Finder is tucked away in the Ctrl-click menu under Quick Actions. Here you’ll find automations to turn photos into PDFs, to open PDFs in Markup mode and to change photos from one format to another, and you can also add your own. Creating automations used to be the job of Automator, which was brilliant but pretty intimidating to newcomers. The Shortcuts app, introduced in macOS Monterey, is much friendlier – but, as we’ll discover, it’s still more than capable of doing some clever and useful things. Quick Actions are…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2023

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