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When you Optimizing Services Menu on Mac, the operating system displays a menu of helpful options. Service appears on one of the menus. There are both wonderful items and items you probably won’t require. You can optimizing this menu with a few simple steps.
My service menu is a graveyard of abandoned programmes that we have tried and abandoned. A standard Mac installation does not contain much. The Service Menu contains simple commands such as Open and Show in Finder. This menu expands after a few programmes have been installed. Even if the main programme is deleted, this service menu item remains.
You are not limited to the menu as-is. Configure your Mac to optimize your workflow. This Service option was added to System Preferences via the Keyboard->Shortcuts->Service menu. Apple hosts the Service-specific menu. Some targets include file types such as Image and Text. Other location-dependent menus, such as Internet and Messaging.
How to Optimizing Services Menu on Mac
Create separate users
Consider creating separate user accounts for personal and work computing. You can, for instance, only sign into Slack with your work user and only sign into Messages with your personal user to keep things compartmentalized. In System Preferences > Touch ID, be sure to set up a different fingerprint for each user for fast switching.
Clean up your desktop
- Not having icons on your desktop means less visual clutter overall.
- Not having icons on your desktop means you’ll need to make proper use of your home folder and sort files actively.
- Not having icons on your desktop means applications don’t have to compete with other things for screen real estate.
Manage your windows
- When an application is launched, its window is automatically maximised to full screen on my desktop. Not to be confused with a Mac app in “full screen” mode, which removes the app from the desktop.
- When another app is launched, a vertical split is introduced and your apps are automatically resized so that they each occupy one-half of the screen left to right. This works particularly well on an ultrawide monitor with a 21:9 aspect ratio, as splitting the monitor vertically creates two 4:3 aspect ratio spaces—a very comfortable size for web application work.
- When a third application is launched, the right side of the display is horizontally divided. The third application now occupies the right-hand half of my screen.
- If an application is closed, the remaining applications are automatically resized to fit the available space and their splits are adjusted accordingly.
Clean up your browser
Chrome is used for all work-related tasks, while Firefox is used for personal browsing. It’s great to be able to separate my browsing history, bookmarks, and logged-in accounts, as I don’t want them to conflict.
Choosy is an excellent application that allows you to select which web browser to launch under specific conditions. In System Preferences > General, with my default browser set to Choosy (rather than Chrome or Firefox), I have established the following conditions:
- When clicking a link in Slack, always open it in Chrome.
- When clicking a link in Messages, always open it in Firefox.
- When opening a URL from Alfred, ask me which browser to open.
FAQ
What is optimizing your Mac doing?
macOS can free up space on your Mac by optimizing its storage space. When space is limited, you can store files, photos, videos, Apple TV movies and shows, and email attachments in iCloud, making them accessible on-demand.
What happens if I uncheck optimize Mac storage?
Note that disabling Optimize Mac Storage may require your Mac to download data from iCloud, which may take some time. Similarly, enabling the feature will require your Mac to upload data to the cloud to free up space on your Mac, which may take time depending on the amount of data and your internet connection speed.