ONE-CLICK TRAIL TO YOUR LIFE

ONE-CLICK TRAIL TO YOUR LIFE

This one’s a handy holdover from Mac OS 9 (and previous versions of the Mac OS).  If you Command-click directly on a window’s name (at the top center of your window), a pop-up menu appears that shows its folder hierarchy (which folders your current window resides within).

HIDING THE TOOLBAR WHEN YOU DON’T NEED IT

If you don’t want the toolbar showing all the time (or ever for that matter), you can hide it by simply clicking on the white Pill-shaped button on the top right of the window’s title bar (or you can use the keyboard shortcut Option –Command-T).

MOVING YOUR TOOLBAR ICONS AT WILL

If you decide you want to change the order of the icon in your toolbar, hold the Command key and drag them to where you want them.

HOW TO MAKE THE SIDEBAR WORK LIKE THE DOCK

I’ll show you how you can customize the toolbar using the Customize Toolbar command but you can also customize the Sidebar by adding other icons that make it even more powerful.  For example, if you use Photoshop a lot just open the window where your Photoshop application resides, drag the Photoshop icon right over to the Sidebar and the other icons in the Sidebar slide out of the way.  Now, you can use this window kind of like you would the Dock – to launch Photoshop, just click on its icon in the Sidebar, plus like the Dock, you can even drag-and-drop images you want to open right onto the Photoshop icon.

ADDING ITEMS TO THE SIDEBAR

To add a file (folder, or application) to the Sidebar, just click on it and drag it right into the Sidebar (clicking on the file and pressing Command-T also does the trick).  If you drag your file, you’ll see a thin horizontal blue bar (with a blue circle on the end) appear in the Sidebar at the location where your dragged file (folder, etc.) will appear.  If you don’t like the location, drag up/down until it’s where you want, then release the mouse button to drop it into place. If you want to remove an item from the Sidebar just click and drag it off the Sidebar and it will be gone in a puff of smoke.

THE ULTIMATE CUSTOMIZE TOOLBAR SHORTCUT

If you want to customize the items in your toolbar just Option-Command-click the little white pill-shaped button at the top right of your window’s title bar and the Customize Toolbar dialog appears right there in your window.