Type emoji and symbols in any app
The emoji picker and the full Character Viewer are one shortcut away.
Tips tagged #from-windows
Snap windows into thirds and more with Rectangle
macOS tiles windows into halves and quarters; Rectangle adds thirds, two-thirds and a keyboard shortcut for every position.
Edit text without Home, End or Forward Delete
The shortcuts that stand in for the keys a Mac keyboard does not have.
Closing a window does not quit the app
The red dot leaves the app running. Command-Q is what actually closes it, and the Dock tells you which is which.
Force quit an app that has stopped responding
The Mac equivalent of Ctrl+Alt+Delete for a single frozen app.
Install and uninstall apps that are not in the App Store
There is no installer wizard: you drag the app into a folder, and you delete it by dragging it out.
The menu bar belongs to the app, not the window
On a Mac the menus live at the top of the screen and always belong to whichever app you are using.
Move a file instead of copying it
There is no cut for files on a Mac. Copy it, then paste holding Option, and it moves.
Switch between open apps with the keyboard
The Mac equivalent of Alt+Tab switches apps, not windows — which is why it sometimes seems to skip things.
Set up right-click and tap-to-click on the trackpad
There is no second button, but there is a right click — and you can stop physically pressing the trackpad down.
Fix the trackpad scrolling the wrong way
macOS scrolls like a touchscreen, not like Windows. One switch decides which way the page moves.