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Keyboard shortcuts,
checked and dated.

Each set names the source it was checked against and the date it was checked, with Windows and Mac side by side. Point at any shortcut and the keyboard below lights its keys in the order you press them. Then practise them until your hands know them.

Try the keyboard

Point at a shortcut and its keys light up. Press a real key and you will see that too.

Paste without dragging the formatting along The single most useful shortcut most people have never pressed.WinControl plusShift plusVMacOption plusShift plusCommand plusV
Reopen the browser tab you just closedWinControl plusShift plusTMacShift plusCommand plusT
Capture part of the screenWinShift plusWindows key plusSMacShift plusCommand plus4
Jump to the edge of the data in a spreadsheetWinControl plusRight arrowMacCommand plusRight arrow
Delete the word behind the cursorWinControl plusBackspaceMacOption plusDelete
Lock the screen on your way outWinWindows key plusLMacControl plusCommand plusQ

Operating systems

The shortcuts that work everywhere on the machine, before any app opens.

AI assistants

Newer, smaller sets that change often, so each one carries the date it was checked.

Documents and spreadsheets

Where most keyboard time goes, and where the savings are largest.

Design, photo and video

Tools you pick with one letter and panels you open with two keys: the apps where shortcuts pay back fastest.

Mail, chat and notes

Where the day's messages and notes live. Gmail answers to single letters, once they are switched on; the rest mostly to chords and typed shortcuts.

Browsers

Tabs, history, the address bar, and the find bar you already half know.

Editors and terminals

Written for people who never take their hands off the keys.

Data and databases

Queries, reports, notebooks and models: the tools where a working day is spent inside one window.

Why bother with a shortcut at all

Because the mouse is the slow part

Reaching for a mouse, finding a target and coming back costs a second or two. Do it three hundred times a day and it is the largest single thing standing between you and finishing earlier.

Because six is enough to start

Nobody memorises a page like this in one sitting, and nobody needs to. Pick the six you would use today, print the sheet, and the rest arrive on their own.

Because these lists are usually wrong

Every set here is grouped by what you are trying to do rather than alphabetically, and every page names the source it was checked against and the date it was checked.