Mac Productivity Hack: Hide Desktop Icons with a Custom Keyboard Shortcut
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Week 2 on the Mac and I built something I actually want to use. A keyboard shortcut that hides and shows all your desktop icons, built entirely inside the native Shortcuts app, no third-party software needed.
The shortcut runs a two-line shell script through a ZSH alias, and I also show how to do the same thing straight from the terminal if that's more your speed.
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00:00:00 - week 2 on the Mac
00:00:26 - showing the keyboard shortcut in action
00:00:42 - inside the Shortcuts app
00:01:06 - the shell script explained
00:01:33 - running it from the terminal
00:02:04 - setting up ZSH aliases
00:03:06 - assigning the keyboard shortcut
00:03:46 - missing Windows? kind of
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