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"As a result of my observations of users, there are NO command key equivalents in my product, Smart Labels, except for Undo, Cut, Copy and Paste. The Clear and Escape keys will clear the label text edit box. Users may demand key equivalents, but I will resist them"

- While I largely agree with this, I think one thing this era of computing missed (and Windows still does) is the power of querying for items - I'd love to see a comparison between mousing over, keyboard shortcuts, and querying (e.g. macos's cmd+shift+/, plugins like https://shortcatapp.com) for items between users that are deeply familiar with an application versus occasional users of an application and new users.

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Intellij has an integrated "cmd + shft + a" shortcat like feature.

This is so helpful for commands that I use once or twice a month.

I could always learn their actual shortcut but it does not feel worth it.

When I want to capture a layout hierarchy, I just hit cmd + shft +a and type "lay".

I don't really care about doing this rare action a couple of seconds faster by learning/setting an actual shortcut for this.

You can also tap shift a couple of times and a pop-up appears with all possible options (a superset of cmd shift a)

I bound this to the Insert key which is otherwise useless, so I have a single key which activates this. I use it all the time.

That's a great use for the insert key!

This. On the condition that the search has good fuzzy matching otherwise it's tedious to remember the name of each operation. I think Sublime Text cmd+p made the mouse vs ctrl-shortcuts moot.

Yikes. I always thought that when I was forced to use the mouse to do something, it was simply laziness and incompetence on the part of the developers. It never occurred to me that it could be a deliberate design decision.

shortcatapp looks nice. I wonder if something like this exists for Windows.

It might even be more efficient if it worked like Vimium in the browser, labelling all items with a single letter which you can press to select it.

https://github.com/zsims/hunt-and-peck/blob/master/README.md

Also vimac for osx

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