

Once you have that application you want up front, if you have a ton of other windows in the background, you could go and manually click the minimize key on all of them, but it’s far easier to just hit Option + Command + H, which hides every window other than the app up front. You can hit the Tab key again, while holding Command, to cycle through them and select the app you want to bring the the front of the screen. Once you’ve opened up a few applications, switching through them is pretty easy – just hit Command + Tab and a blurb will pop up with all your active applications. That brings up the spotlight search so you can just start typing and you don’t have to take your hands off the keyboard. Now, what about navigation? If you’re going to open a new app, you might move your mouse up to the corner to click on that little magnifying glass, then start using the spotlight search, but a quicker way to do that is just to click Command + Space.

Of course, Command + C will copy, and Command + V will paste.

To start off with the most common shortcuts you’re probably already familiar with: the copy and paste commands.
