Tips & Tricks From a Team of Marketers Who Spend an Awful Lot of Time on Their Macs.
Bookmark a Website As An Icon — Bookmark the page, then edit the bookmark and delete its name. The website’s icon will remain in your bookmarks bar for quick access.
Create a QR Code for Any Webpage — Right-click anywhere on the webpage and select Create QR Code for This Page. You can then scan, copy, or download the QR code.
Open Tabs in Split View — Right-click a tab and select Add Tab to New Split View to view two tabs side by side in the same Chrome window. Bonus points if you pin it to the toolbar.
Our Team’s Favorite Commands
Command | What It Does |
Command + Enter | Sends an email |
Command + A | Selects/highlights everything |
Command + Shift + V | Pastes text without the original formatting |
Command + 0 | Resets browser zoom to 100% |
Command + L | Jumps to/highlights the browser address/search bar |
Command + Space | Opens Spotlight Search on Mac |
Command + Shift + R | Hard refreshes/reloads a webpage |
Command + Shift + 4 | Takes a screenshot of a selected area |
Command + Shift + 5 | Opens Mac screenshot and screen-recording controls |
Command + Shift + T | Reopens the most recently closed browser tab |
Command + Shift + C — Google Docs | Opens word/character count |
Command + N | Creates a new window/document depending on the active app |
Fn + Fn | Opens emoji/character picker, depending on Mac settings |
Google Search Tips
Search Trick | What It Does | Example |
Quotation Marks ” “ | Finds an exact match for a phrase | “digital marketing tips” |
Minus Sign – | Removes results containing a word you don’t want | marketing tips -social |
Asterisk * | Acts as a wildcard to fill in a missing word or phrase | “best * tools for marketers” |
OR | Searches for results containing one term or another | Instagram OR TikTok marketing |
Two Periods .. | Searches within a number range, like prices or years | MacBook $500..$1000 |
site: | Limits your search to results from one specific website | marketing tips site:hubspot.com |
define: | Quickly searches for the definition of a word | define:conversion |
Updates are always happening, but some old-school tricks never go away. These are a few of our favorites that we use all the time. Have a favorite trick we missed? Feel free to reach out below and share it with us!