Hot Corners Are the Best MacOS Feature You’re Not Using
Some of the best Mac features aren’t cutting-edge: They’ve been around for decades, but they’re buried deep in settings. Hot Corners is a great example.
With Hot Corners, you can assign different actions to each of the four corners of your Mac’s screen. For example, I like to open Notification Center by moving my mouse to the upper-right corner. This makes it easy to see widgets without clicking on them. But there’s so much more you can do with this feature.
You can enable the Hot Corners feature in System Settings . Go to Desktop & Dock and scroll down until you see Hot Corners . Here you can choose which commands to assign to each corner.
In fact, the choice of actions and corners is entirely up to you. You can use Hot Corners to launch Mission Control from the bottom left corner, which will speed up window switching, or take a note using Quick Notes in the bottom right corner. I recommend experimenting and seeing what works for you.
The Hot Corners feature works well, but frankly, in its current form, it’s limited. You can only assign ten functions, one for each corner. If you want more of this feature, you’ll need to install a third-party app.
SuperCorners Makes Hot Corners More Efficient
SuperCorners is a free, open-source app that works just like the official Hot Corners feature, but adds many more actions to the mix. To get started, download and install the app.
You can now select new actions for each corner of the screen. Note that you will need to hold down a modifier key (Command by default) to invoke these actions. This means that you can use this app in conjunction with the official Hot Corners feature, as they will not overlap.
You can choose actions for each of the four corners, which are appropriately called “corners,” and for the center of each side of the screen, which are called “zones.” There are dozens of actions available, allowing you to do everything from launching an app to arranging windows to taking a screenshot. If that’s not enough, you can launch an Apple shortcut , which lets you use that app for almost any purpose.