What Is a Secret Tool or Shortcut More people ought to know?

The modern working environment is so busy to an extent that majority of us have been employing multiple tools and software among other short cuts so as to achieve success in our work. Though we normally work with common applications in our daily routine, we tend to have features or tools that either we just do not know or they are simply little shortcuts which would make our work incredibly faster and make it significantly easier.

What is your little secret, or your shortcut that more people need to know about?

Many professionals discover that they end up saving a lot of time in the minor things which they can find in the tools they use throughout the day. They can be shortcuts, automation tools or inbuilt tools that are not taken care of. One can discuss these tips and help people work more productively and improve their working process in general.

What is the importance of the shortcuts and hidden tools in our daily activities?

Reduced shortcuts and less frequented features can reduce the repetitive work and make the common ones fast. Instead of spending additional time flipping through a menu or necessarily doing it by hand, a person can just make a simple short cut or a tool, and accomplish the same thing in a couple of seconds.

What do you find as some of the useful short cuts or hidden tools?

Some useful examples are the following:

• Keyboard shortcuts to skip back and forth between applications or perform some other common activity.
• Opening text or image that has been copied by clicking history tools on clipboard.
• Practicing prioritization with the help of inbuilt task managers or notes applications.
• software with repetitive features is to be automated.
• Being informed of templates that can be implemented to start projects.
• live search of files using command or quick action in apps.

What would be the value of discovering such tools in terms of helping the team?

Splits the helpful tools or shortcuts of the team members will assist all the team members in improving the working process. The smallest push of a person can saves few minutes or even hours of another person at some moment in time. It also fosters life long learning, besides making work procedures of the entire team easier.

Now it’s your turn:

• What hidden tool or shortcut do you use often?
• How does it help you work faster or better?
• Would you recommend it to others on the team?