1. Managing Your Desktop
In this chapter, you learn how to make efficient use of your screen space.
→ Organizing files using the Dock
→ Navigating folders within the Dock’s Grid view mode
→ Customizing the Finder sidebar and toolbar
→ Creating Finder tabs
→ Organizing with File Tags
→ Viewing the contents of files with Quick Look
→ Searching for files and information with Spotlight
→ Keeping track of application events with Notifications
Your Mac is a powerful machine, capable of working with hundreds of different types of files and managing gigabytes upon gigabytes of data. Back when I got my first 128K Mac (w/floppy), you barely needed folders ...
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