When it comes to working on the web, how efficient are you? This may not have crossed your mind before, but you could be wasting days every year by going the "long way around". When you visit certain websites, are you aware of the many keyboard shortcuts that they might have? Are you aware that you could save yourself minutes every day by using them?
You could be wasting as much as a week every year by not using keyboard shortcuts. A whole week. A crazy thought isn’t it?! You could accomplish so much in that time. We’re certain you could use that time more productively; such as developing your skills in different areas or improving the handling of your workload.
Boom Online Marketing have created a handy keyboard shortcuts tool for the following websites, just choose your operating system and away you go:
- Google Plus
- Evernote
- Trello
- Gmail
- YouTube
- Google Calendar
- WordPress
If you use any of these websites, whether that’s for work or in your personal time, read on to learn about how to streamline your working day and become a shortcut wizard at the same time.
Twitter is a bit of mixed bag when it comes to social media. The website that amplified everyone’s opinion and limited it to 140 characters has arguably done more damage to the world than it has good. That being said, there’s no denying how powerful it is. Celebrities, organisations and world leaders can use it to communicate without their words being twisted and anyone can use it to cover a major event unfolding in the world. If you can find it among all the trolls and bots.
Love it, hate it, you should learn to master it with these keyboard shortcuts.
It’s been an interesting year for Facebook. This year’s events are starting to beg the question, what is it going to take for people to really #DeleteFacebook? Involvement in world geopolitics aside, Facebook is the pre-eminent social media website. It wasn’t the first, it may have even been stolen from the Winklevoss twins. However, with over 2 billion active users, it’s the social media website of the world.
Navigate it with extreme efficiency with the downloadable PDF.
Google+
Google’s foray into social media is coming to an end as they start to wind down their Google Plus service. If you’re one of the middle-aged men that used this, then we’re sorry for your loss. Now stop being weird and use a proper social media website like everyone else.
You can use these shortcuts to speed up the process of deleting your account.
EverNote
EverNote is a great example of how websites can help us to stay organised, maintain efficiency and be altogether more organised. Why not be efficient about being efficient? Organise yourself at even faster paces with these shortcuts.
Trello
Trello is an app designed to help with project management. Taking on big tasks and having big projects is all well and good, but unless you manage them, they turn into white elephants. Costly, time-consuming and stressful. Stay on top of your projects and collaborate with your team over Trello. Even if you don’t use it for work, it’s a great way to organise your personal life.
Be organised and save time whilst you’re doing it. Check out these keyboard shortcuts for Trello.
Gmail
Google’s foray into email has gone much better than their social media experiment. Gmail has emerged as a major email service. It has recently been updated and is set up to integrate with the rest of your life more than ever before. If you use Gmail as your main email account, reduce the stress and time spent checking emails with some sneaky shortcuts.
YouTube
Is YouTube used for anything other than procrastination? If you’re one of YouTube’s normal users, that is anyone who doesn’t record themselves staging ridiculous pranks in the search of YouTube fame or one of YouTube’s millions of make-up artists, you could be wasting minutes every day by clicking around. Commit these YouTube shortcuts to memory. If you’re going to waste time, at least do it the smart way…
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a very popular calendar app. It can be used in the workplace easily as well as personally. You can use it to set yourself goals and track your progress. Managing your calendar doesn’t have to be a headache though.
WordPress
WordPress is a content management system that has made it really easy for people to become webmasters. Whether you want to create a blog, start on online store or make another online forum for strangers to digitally shout at each other, the power is all yours on WordPress.
There’s quite a few on here. But, learn these and you’ll become a master of all the WordPress webmasters.
Start reclaiming all the time you’ve lost clicking around your computer. Think of it like learning a language in your spare time. You’re basically learning how to speak to your favourite websites in a secret tongue. And that’s pretty cool.
Amy is a digital marketer from Nottingham, UK where she works as part of the wider SEO team for creative digital marketing specialists, Boom Online Marketing. Amy’s areas of expertise are digital PR, content marketing and on-page SEO. You can connect with Amy via Twitter. and LinkedIn.
