Hot Corners

Helping Switch Between Applications and Files with Hot Corners

Sometimes, one has so many open windows that it is hard to navigate between the files and applications. Enter the 'Hot Corner'. Hot Corners are a setting on your mac computer that allow the user to trigger actions when the mouse cursor is dragged to any of the corners on the screen. They are activated when the tip of your mouse pointer activates a 'hot pixel' that is located in each of the corners of your screen. Simply drag your cursor to the corner of the screen - no need to click. Hot corners can perform a variety of actions, including putting your computer to sleep, clearing all windows from the desktop, or minimizing your windows so they are all revealed. I find them especially useful when I am doing work that involves managing at least 3 windows at the same time. It is also particularly useful when you have a file on your desktop and it is needed to be dropped into the work you are doing. See the above video for the different actions that can be set in your System Preferences >> Mission Control >> Hot Corners.