Activity Monitor is the task manager for Mac OS. It displays processes of the system running under user-level, system-level and kernel level. If a program is running on your Mac computer, you can easily find it in Activity Monitor. Activity Monitor — The Task Manager for Mac. If you’re familiar with the Windows Task Manager, then you may wonder whether there is a twin for Mac. Don’t worry, a Task Manager exists on Macs but it has another name — Activity Monitor.
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Wunderlist is a simple todo list and task manager app that helps you get stuff done. Whether you’re sharing a grocery list with a loved one, working on a project, or planning a vacation, Wunderlist makes it easy to capture, share, and complete your todos. Wunderlist instantly syncs between your phone, tablet and computer, so you can access all your tasks from anywhere.
“The best todo list app.” The Verge
Wunderlist has also been featured in The New York Times, Lifehacker, Forbes, The Guardian, Wired, and Vanity Fair, just to name a few.
Key Wunderlist Features:
• Add, organize, schedule and share your todos from your phone, tablet or computer
• Set Due Dates and Reminders to ensure you never forget important deadlines (or birthday gifts) again
• Use Subtasks, Notes, Files and Comments to add important details to your todos
• Create lists to help sort your todos for home, work and everything in between
• Share lists and collaborate on your todos with family, friends and colleagues
• Be productive from anywhere, thanks to Wunderlist’s apps for your phone, smart watch, tablet and computer
• Quickly create and search todos with the Quick Add shortcut, just just press CTRL+Option(Alt)+W
• Save web pages and articles for later with the Add to Wunderlist sharing extension
• View today’s todos in your Notification Center with Wunderlist’s Today extension
Our Terms of Use: http://www.wunderlist.com/termsofuse
Our Privacy Policy: http://www.wunderlist.com/privacypolicy
Learn more about Wunderlist at www.wunderlist.com
“The best todo list app.” The Verge
Wunderlist has also been featured in The New York Times, Lifehacker, Forbes, The Guardian, Wired, and Vanity Fair, just to name a few.
Key Wunderlist Features:
• Add, organize, schedule and share your todos from your phone, tablet or computer
• Set Due Dates and Reminders to ensure you never forget important deadlines (or birthday gifts) again
• Use Subtasks, Notes, Files and Comments to add important details to your todos
• Create lists to help sort your todos for home, work and everything in between
• Share lists and collaborate on your todos with family, friends and colleagues
• Be productive from anywhere, thanks to Wunderlist’s apps for your phone, smart watch, tablet and computer
• Quickly create and search todos with the Quick Add shortcut, just just press CTRL+Option(Alt)+W
• Save web pages and articles for later with the Add to Wunderlist sharing extension
• View today’s todos in your Notification Center with Wunderlist’s Today extension
Our Terms of Use: http://www.wunderlist.com/termsofuse
Our Privacy Policy: http://www.wunderlist.com/privacypolicy
Learn more about Wunderlist at www.wunderlist.com
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In this update, we've squashed some pesky bugs and made a few minor enhancements.
5.3K Ratings
App-ly Named - Wunder
If I had to pick three apps that I couldn’t live without.. or software that is tremendously useful in the modern age.. well, let’s see google maps, tax software, and WUNDERLIST.. No kidding. It’s that good. Easy to use, cross platform, powerful sharing tools, you have no idea how many organized lists I have in this thing. I use a couple of general sort lists for work and for personal tasks, but then have lists on & with individual family members, vehicles I own, specialty shopping lists, financial project lists, house project lists, you name it. I have nearly 20 folders of lists, with multiple lists nested. For instance, a Family folder with one list for each family member and shared projects, one Folder on Vehicles, includes lists of maintenance and also historical pieces on every vehicle. Want to know when I replaced tires, (or what size and brand), want to know when exactly I replaced batteries on smoke detectors or the house water filters, or what all my hotel, airline mileage plan numbers are.. That’s not even counting Folders and Lists for work programs and projects.. It’s amazing. The real trick for me is the note feature in each list. I keep all sorts of data inside the individual lists under ‘add a note.’ I also label some items with a name and (routine) in the title - when I complete those I throw them in another list and recycle them whenever needed.
The app truly works Wonders. Love this thing.
The app truly works Wonders. Love this thing.
Absolutely Saved My Day
A friend told me about this app. It has simplified my life times 1,000. I had notepads everywhere with lists of To Do’s for business, personal, around the house, shopping, etc. So many pieces of papers and notepads I was frustrated I could not somehow organize them so I could keep up and not feel overwhelmed with everything I had to do. I could not keep up with anything. Now it is all in one place and alplabetized so it is easy to locate. I can put a reminder and due dates on each item so I get a reminder to do it as it needs to be done. I can delete it once it is completed without having pages of notepads with items marked through but needing to keep the page with other items that need to be done. I can share lists with family members so they can add items to a Wishlist for Christmas or for items needed at the grocery store. Which by the way is the easiest way to have a grocery shopping list because you add items as you think of them and it is shared so whoever does the shopping always has a current list. I have the app on my laptop and my phone. The lists always sync on both so always have it available no matter which one I use. Absolutely the best thing that has happened to me to simplify my life. I owe my friend and will be taking her out to one of the nicest restaurants in Dallas as a thank you for how she has helped me get my sanity back! Thanks Rebecca you are a saint.
It's good
but it could be just a little bit better. My only issue is with the lack of flexibility for recurring tasks. One reviewer mentioned have the ability to set a recurring task only for weekdays. That would be helpful. But my biggest issue is that you cannot set the tasks to repeat on completion of the task. This can be annoying with daily tasks that don't all get complete every day. They pop up as overdue, which is fine, but then when you check them off, they pop up again for the same day. It is actually worse for things that are repeated less often - I.e. the task of watering plants. If I set that to repeat once a week but don't get it done on that day but a couple of days later, when I check it off, it brings it back up 5 days later. If I don't remember to change the due date, my plants may get too much water. The reason I use apps such as these is because my memory is not the best. I need help with that. The plants are not so important, but lack of that option makes the app less useful. It would also be nice - though not critical- to have the option to repeat things with other criteria, like on the first Monday of each month, etc. Otherwise, I am happy with the app. Could be happier. I would not even mind paying a few dollars for the added flexibility.
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OS X 10.10 or later, 64-bit processor
English, Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Maltese, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Welsh
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
Someone asked me what the keyboard shortcut to get to task manager was in macOS was the other day and I couldn’t tell him. Even though I regularly use macOS Sierra, I couldn’t for the life of me remember the shortcut. In fact, I couldn’t remember many shortcuts at all. That’s what this post is about. A list of popular Mac shortcuts that many of you will know but some of you won’t.
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First, let us correct one glaring error. Mac doesn’t have a Task Manager, it has Activity Monitor. Task Manager is for Windows. Mac uses the very tidy Activity Monitor app and while it does much the same thing, is very different to Task Manager. Many Windows switchers still call it Task Manager, but it isn’t.
To answer the initial headline question, what is the shortcut key to access Activity Monitor on a Mac? Command + Spacebar. If you’re new to Mac, Command is the ‘⌘’ key which is only found on Apple keyboards.
Other common keyboard shortcuts for Mac
Keyboard shortcuts in Mac are the same as for Windows. You hold down the first key in the sequence and then hit the second and sometimes third keys to complete the command. So to access Activity Monitor, you hold down the Command key and hit Spacebar.
Some of the more common keyboard shortcuts for Mac are the same in Windows. For example:
- Command-X – Cut whatever is selected and copy it to the Clipboard.
- Command-C – Copy whatever is selected to the Clipboard.
- Command-V – Paste the contents of the Clipboard into a document or app.
- Command-Z – Undo the previous command.
- Command-A – Select all.
- Command-F – Find items in a document or open Find.
- Command-P – Print the current document.
- Command-S – Save the current document.
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Other keyboard shortcuts for Mac are different. You will find the fn key in the bottom left of the Apple keyboard.
- Command-Q – Quit the app.
- Option-Command-Esc – Force Quit an app or unresponsive program.
- Command–Space bar – Open Spotlight.
- Command-W – Close the active window.
- Command-T – Open a new tab in Safari.
- Command-H – Hide an app.
- Fn–Up Arrow – Page Up which scrolls up a single page.
- Fn–Down Arrow- Page Down which scrolls down a single page.
- Fn–Left Arrow-Home – Scroll to the beginning of a web page or document.
- Fn–Right Arrow-End – Scroll to the end of a web page or document document.
- Control–Command–Power button – Force restart the Mac.
- Control–Shift–Power button – Put your screen to sleep.
- Control–Command–Media Eject – Quit all apps and restart.
- Control–Option–Command–Power button – Quit all apps and shut down.
- Shift-Command-Q – Log out of your user account.
- Option-Shift-Command-Q – Log out of your macOS user account without confirming.
Shortcuts for working with documents
There are a number of keyboard shortcuts for Mac that are specific to working in documents. As that is mostly what I do, I know some of these ones.
- Command-B – Turn bold on or off.
- Command-I – Turn italics on or off.
- Command-U – Turn underlining on or off.
- Command-T – Show or hide the Fonts window.
- Command-D – Select the Desktop folder when opening or saving.
- Control-Command-D – Show or hide the definition of the selected word.
- Shift-Command-Colon – Show the Spelling and Grammar window.
- Command-Semicolon – Activate spellcheck.
- Option-Delete – Delete the word to the left of the cursor.
- Control-H – Delete the character to the left of the cursor.
- Control-D – Delete the character to the right of the cursor.
- Control-A – Go to the beginning of the line.
- Control-E – Go to the end of a line.
- Control-F – Move one character forward.
- Control-B – Move one character backward.
- Control-P – Move up one line.
- Control-N – Move down one line.
- Control-O – Insert a new line after the cursor.
- Control-T – Swap the character around either side of the cursor.
Finally, some shortcut keys that are actually hard to find. While we won’t need the Euro sign very often, it is useful to know where it is if you do. The Hash sign is certainly more used when writing about anything to do with social media. Ellipsis is useful at times and copyright is essential of you are a publisher or writer.
- Alt-2 = Euro sign (€)
- Alt-3 = Hash sign (#)
- Alt-: = ellipsis (…)
- Alt-G – copyright ©
Those are just some of the many common keyboard shortcuts for Mac. If you want a full list of the possibilities, visit the Mac keyboard shortcuts page.