How to Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Start Saving Time Today

According to a study cited by Atlassian, the average employee works 8.3 hours per day, with only a difference of one single hour between those who felt time-pressured and those who didn’t.

What this means is that saving time while working is crucial. Each additional hour that you work can lead to increased stress and pressure to get things done.

This has created an opportunity for automation/time-saving features to help out greatly. One example is keyboard shortcuts, which are commands you can use by typing shortcuts that can do a variety of things for you while you’re working.

In this article, we’ll cover why you should use keyboard shortcuts, how you can start using them, and show you a few examples of how you can get started using them to save time and work faster today.

Why Use Keyboard Shortcuts?

Saving time while working is important because it allows you to spend more time on other things. However, it has more benefits than just having more time.

If you are able to save time while working, you can avoid burnout, beat procrastination, and avoid the trap of toxic productivity.

Keyboard shortcuts are one of many great features of productivity tools that you can utilize to save time on common, boring, or repetitive tasks.

Some tasks can be boring or just repetitive. These are the tasks that you can benefit from automating. Keyboard shortcuts can help you do that.

One primary example is everyone’s favorite aspect of working: email. Keyboard shortcuts can help you reduce the amount of time you spend using your email, which helps you save lots of time, as many people use email frequently throughout their workweek.

Common Keyboard Shortcuts

Using keyboard shortcuts is pretty simple. Typically, you can type keyboard shortcuts to utilize pre-determined commands. One of the everyday uses of keyboard shortcuts is the common “Ctrl+c” and “Ctrl+v” to copy and paste.

Here are a few common sites that use keyboard shortcuts and examples for each:

• Mac keyboard shortcuts - Command-Space-bar (spotlight search), Command-Tab (switch to recent screen), and Command-N (new folder in Finder).
• Windows keyboard shortcuts - Windows logo key + Tab (opens task view), Alt + Tab (switch between apps), and Windows logo key + PrtScn OR Fn + Windows logo key + Spacebar (screenshot).
• Chromebook keyboard shortcuts - Alt + Left arrow (go to last page on browser), Ctrl + Show Windows (screenshot), and Shift + Ctrl + Show windows (partial screenshot).
• Gmail keyboard shortcuts - Command/Control + Enter (send email), Command/Control + m (spelling suggestions), and Shift + i (mark as read).

As you can see, keyboard shortcuts are widely available on many different platforms, browsers, and sites. Keep reading to see how Text Blaze takes keyboard shortcuts to a whole new level.

Text Blaze Keyboard Shortcuts

With Text Blaze, you use keyboard shortcuts to insert text anywhere online. You can use our keyboard shortcuts to create powerful, customizable templates that can help you both save time and work faster.

Text Blaze helps you eliminate repetitive typing forever and boost productivity, all by utilizing keyboard shortcuts to create useful templates.

How to Use Keyboard Shortcuts

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to start using Text Blaze’s keyboard shortcuts.

Create Your Keyboard Shortcut + Template

• Install the Text Blaze Chrome Extension.
• Go to Text Blaze’s Dashboard to start creating your template.
• Click the plus button in the top left corner to “Create a new snippet.” Note: We refer to templates as “snippets” in this tutorial.
• Write a title for your snippet in the box that says “Label (describes the snippet).” Note: this is just a label so that you know what the snippet is. It is not the shortcut or the contents of the snippet (what will be pasted).
• Write a keyboard shortcut for your snippet in the box that says “Shortcut (typed to insert). Note: this is what you will type in order to paste in your snippet contents.
• Create your template in the large box. This is where snippet contents go. You can put any text into this box and when you type the shortcut, the text in the snippet contents box will automatically be inserted.
• Type your shortcut anywhere online, and watch your template come to life. Once you type in the snippet, it will automatically be inserted. If you’ve included text fields or other commands, you might be prompted to customize your template by filling in these fields.

Once you’ve completed this step, you’ve used keyboard shortcuts to create your very own Text Blaze template!

If you want to see some examples, learn more, and try some templates out yourself, check out our Gallery pages today!

Wondering how to automate your work? Read this article to learn more!

Eliminate Repetitive Typing Forever With Text Blaze!

We hope you learned something after reading this article on how to use keyboard shortcuts.

With Text Blaze, keyboard shortcuts help you create templates that you can use anywhere online. Whether you are sending emails or spending hours writing online, Text Blaze helps you eliminate repetitive typing forever. Give Text Blaze a try for free today!

Want to turbo charge your work with templates and snippets? Text Blaze is the fastest way to do that.

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