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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- MacOS Highlight now permits you to do way more.
- You may shortly ship emails and messages with out opening the apps.
- This characteristic is in-built and free to make use of.
To date, I believe the MacOS Tahoe improve is fingers down one of the best replace from Apple that I can bear in mind. It is so good, it is even changed my mind about using widgets. Not solely is the Liquid Glass UI supremely elegant, however the Highlight device is lastly as much as the duty of contemporary utilization.
Working example, the flexibility to ship messages and emails straight from the Highlight search bar.
You learn that proper. Now you can ship messages and emails from inside Highlight, with out having to first open Apple Mail or iMessage. It is handy and works like a attraction. I have been utilizing this characteristic for a couple of days now and have discovered myself working with the Mail app much less and fewer.
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After all, you possibly can’t reply to messages or learn incoming messages, however so far as sending fast emails to folks, that is the best way to go.
Discover I did say “fast emails.” You are not going to make use of this characteristic to ship paragraph after paragraph (though I suppose you may), so I’d hold that in thoughts earlier than you begin utilizing the Highlight for this objective.
Including an motion to Highlight
Earlier than you possibly can ship that first message or e-mail from inside Highlight, it’s a must to add an motion. An motion is precisely what it feels like — it permits you to use Highlight for functions aside from looking out. There are actions for timers, notes, numerous apps (comparable to your default net browser), and extra. The motion I am going to exhibit is e-mail.
So as to add the e-mail motion, observe these steps.
To open Highlight, hit the Cmd+Area keyboard shortcut, which brings up the Highlight search bar.
With Highlight open, hit the Cmd+3 keyboard shortcut, which brings up the Motion window.
You may add as many actions as you prefer to Highlight.
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Within the Motion window, find Ship E-mail after which click on the related “Add fast keys.” After clicking “Add fast keys,” you may see a cursor seem, the place you may give the motion a reputation. I used e-mail as my fast key. Give this as easy a reputation as potential, as a result of you are going to use it to tell Highlight that you simply wish to ship an e-mail.
After naming the short key, click on out of the Motion window to dismiss it.
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Sending an e-mail from Highlight
Open Highlight once more (Cmd+Area) and sort your fast key (in my case, e-mail) after which kind ship. Highlight ought to now say “Ship Message with Topic to Recipients.” What you may do is click on within the Message part and sort the message. Subsequent, hit tab and sort your topic. Lastly, hit Tab and sort the e-mail deal with(es) of the recipient(s) of the e-mail.
Highlight makes this course of very apparent and straightforward.
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After getting the message composed in Highlight, hit Enter in your keyboard, and the message shall be despatched.
And that is all there’s to sending emails through Highlight. In the event you additionally use iMessage, you possibly can add that characteristic and shortly ship messages with out having to first open the app.
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