How to Choose and arrange the tools you want

1 iCloud Tabs

In Safari, you have quick access to web pages that are currently open on your other devices – but only by going to View > Show Tab Overview and scrolling down. Add the iCloud Tabs icon and you get them as a handier pop-up.

2 Website preferences

Add the Website Preferences button near Safari’s search/address bar to remind yourself that you can alter default settings and permissions per site. Hover over each item to get a pop-up menu allowing you to change it.

3 Full- screen toolbar

In any app, in full-screen mode, you can choose whether the toolbar hides itself or shows itself (the latter ensures website security status remains visible in Safari). This even applies to Photos, whose toolbar isn’t otherwise alterable.

4 Redirect mail

The Redirect command in Mail’s Message menu forwards a message with its original presentation – no indents are added, which can ruin formatting. This useful option is omitted from the default toolbar. Now you know how to add it.

5 Spacing items

The Flexible Space item separates groups of icons that will stay together; add a (non-flexible) Space to separate tools within a group. (Safari omits fixed spaces, presumably because they’d mess up the centred address/search bar.)

6 iWork tools

In iWork apps such as Keynote, it’s well worth adding tools normally hidden in hard-to-remember palette locations. Just watch out for the toolbar getting full, indicated by the double chevron at the top-right of the app’s window.

7 Reuse styles in Pages

Two of the most useful commands missing from Pages’ default toolset are Copy Style and Paste Style, which are also absent when you ≈- click an item. Thankfully, you can add them to the toolbar for superfast access.

8 Preview’s Magnifier

The Preview app doesn’t have a lot of tools, but one of the handiest is the Magnifier (Tools > Show Magnifier). Add a toolbar button for it to remind yourself it exists and avoid having to recall its unusual keyboard shortcut.

9 Finder’s keepers

Add buttons for practical Finder features that are easily missed, such as ‘Connect to Server’ (also in the Go menu) and the Path button. The latter’s effect would normally be done with View > Show Path Bar or ≈- clicking the window title.