APPLE SKILLS macOS
Master Quick Actions
Make your Mac life even easier with the power of Actions
IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN How to add useful Actions to Finder
YOU’LL NEED macOS 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.