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In-depth guide · 64 min
A complete guide to writing emails: subject lines, salutations, formal and casual English, ready-made wording for ten hard situations, and prompts for AI.
In-depth guide · 57 min
A complete guide with 24 prompts: how to run a claim from an ad, a chain email, or Instagram against real studies through the PubMed connector, how to read abstracts with AI, tell a weak study from a strong one — and turn it all into a family registry of verified claims instead of endless googling.
The tab that's making sound gives itself away with a little speaker icon — and in Edge and Firefox, one click on it mutes it.
Type docs.new or sheets.new into your browser — and a new document opens right away. word.new and excel.new from Microsoft work too.
Shift+F5
Open a document and Word dumps you at the start. Shift+F5 jumps exactly to where you last stopped writing.
Ctrl+Shift+8
The ¶ button reveals spaces, tabs, and page breaks. Suddenly you can see exactly why text jumps where it shouldn't — and what to delete.
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Ctrl+Enter
Paginating with twenty presses of Enter falls apart at the first edit. Ctrl+Enter inserts a real page break that stays put.
Hold Alt and drag with the mouse — Word selects a rectangle of text across lines. Perfect for deleting a column of characters that a normal selection can't grab.
Teams, Zoom, and Meet can all show live speech captions, and Czech is among the supported languages. A lifesaver in noise, with bad audio, or a quiet speaker.
Ctrl+Shift+D
Have to close your browser right now but you're mid-research with twenty tabs open? One shortcut saves them all as a bookmarks folder.
Dragging a file from File Explorer or Finder into a terminal window inserts its full path — correctly quoted, without a single typo.
Open the current folder from the terminal in your graphical file manager with one command: “open .” on a Mac, “explorer.exe .” on Windows and in WSL.
Ctrl+R
You don't have to fish a long command from last week out with the up arrow. Ctrl+R searches history for any fragment and autocompletes the whole thing.
You don't have to email links to yourself. Chrome generates a QR code for a page, and Chrome and Firefox can both send a tab straight to your phone.
Holding an arrow key or Backspace repeats at a speed you can configure. Two sliders almost nobody ever touches — and typing instantly feels snappier.
F9
One click strips ads, menus, and recommended articles off the page. What's left is text and images — like in a book.
Need to get files onto another device on the same network? Python turns any folder into a downloadable web page.
Exam slots fill up within minutes. A reminder set to the exact moment registration opens decides whether you plan your exam period, or take whatever's left.
For subscriptions through the App Store or Google Play, you can cancel the trial a minute after activating it: it still runs to the end, and nothing gets charged. Elsewhere, a reminder does the job.
After 20 minutes at a screen, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds. The eye muscles relax and you skip the dry, burning eyes come evening.
Alt+←
A long press on the back arrow unfolds the tab's history. Instead of clicking back five times, jump straight to the page where you started.
Before a meeting or a coworker pulls you away, write one sentence: what you're doing and what the next step is. Coming back then takes seconds, not a quarter hour.
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint quietly save copies of your work as you go. File → Info → Manage Document recovers even files you never saved.
Select text, right-click, “Copy link to highlight” — the recipient lands exactly on that sentence, highlighted in yellow.
Plenty of monitors and laptops run at 60 Hz even though the hardware can do more. One setting, and scrolling suddenly feels buttery smooth.
A monitor rotated 90° shows a full document page, a long email, or code without endless scrolling. Windows and Mac both handle it right in settings.
Stop retyping details off paper. iPhone can scan text with the camera directly into a text field; Android does the same through Google Lens.
Swiping right along the bottom edge of the screen switches to your previous app — on iPhone and on Android with gesture navigation. No app switcher needed.
On iPhone, slide your finger off the 123 key onto a digit and the keyboard snaps back to letters by itself. Gboard has a key hold or a permanent number row.
Fn+Q
An idea or a phone call in the middle of work? Fn+Q brings up a floating note over whatever you're doing — and it saves itself to Notes.