How to Create a New Text File on Mac
Make an empty text file in the current Finder folder with Option+N in Supercharge, or with TextEdit or the touch command in Terminal.
New on the Mac? These short guides show how to do the things that you did on Windows, like cut and paste files, with an app for the task and the built-in way. See also all guides.

Make an empty text file in the current Finder folder with Option+N in Supercharge, or with TextEdit or the touch command in Terminal.

Command+X does not cut files in Finder. Copy with Command+C and move with Option+Command+V, or use the Command X app to cut and paste.

Coming from Windows? In Finder, Command+Delete moves a file to the Trash. Supercharge makes the Delete key alone do it, like on Windows.

Fill the screen with a window, without fullscreen, with Fn+Control+F or Fill in the green button menu, or with a click on the green button with Supercharge.

macOS minimizes all windows of one app with Option+Command+M. Supercharge minimizes the windows of all apps with one keyboard shortcut.

On a Mac, a click on the Dock icon of the active app does nothing. Supercharge makes it minimize or hide the app, like on Windows.

In Finder, Return renames a file, and Command+O opens it. Supercharge makes Return open files, like Enter on Windows.

Command+Tab leaves the minimized windows of an app in the Dock. Supercharge brings them back when you switch to the app.

macOS 26 and later has a clipboard history in Spotlight: press Command+Space, then Command+4. Supercharge opens it with one keyboard shortcut.

See a monthly calendar with one click in the menu bar with the free Menu Bar Calendar app, or your events and world clocks too with Dato.