


You can now single click the icon to launch that program. Once done, a shortcut to that app will appear wherever you have your shelf. Right click the app and select Pin to shelf.Find the app you want to add to your shelf.

If you’re setting up your Chromebook for the first time, any app you install will automatically add itself to your shelf. I will cover adding apps in a minute but as the title of this tutorial is adding shortcuts, I will cover that first. If you want to add shelf shortcuts to your Chromebook, it is about as easy as it can be. Once you have loaded some apps onto your machine, you can then add shortcuts to those apps on your shelf. This is one of the first customizations a new Chromebook user makes. Like that on a Mac, you can add or remove shortcuts in that launcher so it works how you want it to. It is a quick launcher like that in MacOS that allows you to quickly launch your favorite programs with a single click. The Taskbar in Chrome OS is called the Shelf.
