Four Useful Tricks to Using Your Chromebook More Efficiently

Here are four useful tips for using a Chromebook more efficiently.

#1 - Did you know that a Chromebook has a built in screen recorder? The Chromebook screen recorder works similarly to the screen recorder on an iphone. You can capture a snapshot or a video with or without sound. You can choose to capture your entire screen, a window, or select a part of your screen. Here is a how-to video. 

*Note: I like to use the shortcut shift + control +  show windows keys to open the screen recorder on a Chromebook

#2 Perhaps you are looking for a way to save all of your open tabs to be able to reopen them later. Here is a quick and efficient way to bookmark all of your tabs. 

#3 Save any webpage as an icon to the shelf on your Chromebook. I use this for quick access to any site that I tend to have to open quickly several times a day. It saves me so much time! Follow these three steps.

#4 Have you ever started to enter the name of a website into the omni box (the area where you type a URL) and the site automatically loads? There is a way to customize the Chrome browser search engine to do this for any site you would like. I use this for sites that I need to access frequently, but not necessarily every day. 

Do you have a trick that helps you to be more efficient on a Chromebook? Please share!