When it comes to enhancing efficiency and productivity, macOS offers truly powerful tools that simplify our daily tasks to just a few clicks. Since the launch of macOS Mojave, one of these tools, Quick Actions in Finder, has proven to be an invaluable ally in using our Mac.
Quick Actions allow us to perform quick edits to files directly, convert images, or act on documents without the need to open additional applications. Let's see, then, how these functionalities can transform our interaction with the Mac, elevating our productivity to new levels.
Where to Find Finder's Quick Actions
Quick Actions are ingeniously designed to facilitate certain very specific tasks, allowing us to perform everything from creating a PDF to editing images directly from Finder or the desktop, without opening any other application.
Accessing these actions is as simple as right-clicking on a file and selecting the desired action from the contextual menu. This means that tasks such as rotating an image, annotating documents, or even removing the background from a photo become really fast processes.
How to Customize the Quick Actions Menu
Our customization of the Quick Actions menu begins in the Customize section that appears in this same menu. From here, we can add or remove actions by checking or unchecking those that fit our needs. The system offers us some options, but we can virtually add any quick action we want.
How? Through the Shortcuts app. We can turn any shortcut we've created into a quick action. All we have to do is open the Shortcuts app, go to All Shortcuts from the sidebar, and drag any that we are interested in to the Quick Actions section also in the sidebar.
These shortcuts will then always appear when we tap Customize in the quick actions menu we've seen before. From here, we simply activate them, and they will be available for us to use.
Quick Actions are one of the most powerful and yet little-known tools of macOS to improve our productivity. They allow us to perform common tasks quickly and efficiently, directly from Finder, with a simple click. If we add to that the fact that we can do virtually any action thanks to the Shortcuts app, we are looking at a really interesting system.
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