keycombiner

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  Why Keyboard Shortcuts don't work on non-US Layouts and how Devs could fix it

  April 8, 2021

  Typing shortcuts on international keyboard layouts is broken, especially on the web. This post explains why this is the case and what developers can do to fix their applications.

  javascript • keycombiner
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  An Interactive Virtual Keyboard to Visualize any Collection of Shortcuts

  January 22, 2021

  KeyCombiner’s tables offer plenty of ways to explore a keyboard shortcut collection. There is a full-text search; you can one-click filter by a combination of category and active modifiers, and more. However, these table-based tools are not sufficient when you want to grasp an entire collection of hundreds of shortcuts quickly. That’s why I built the Shortcut Collection Visualizer.

  productivity • keycombiner • vuejs
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  An app to show the shortcuts of the current application for Windows, Linux, and macOS

  December 12, 2020

  Looking up keyboard shortcuts on the web takes you out of the current context and breaks your workflow. KeyCombiner Desktop shows the current application’s shortcuts in a searchable table, triggered instantly via a system-wide key combination. In contrast to existing tools, it is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The lookup also includes all shortcuts and text snippets from your personal KeyCombiner collections, making it a universal cheatsheet.

  productivity • keycombiner
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  Learning all VSCode shortcuts evolved my developing habits

  November 15, 2020

  During the past weeks, I learned every single one of VSCode’s keyboard shortcuts. What started as a fun challenge and blog post idea, turned out to trigger a lot of positive changes in my developing habits. This post describes how I picked up new techniques, and got a more complete picture of VSCode’s feature set.

  vscode • productivity • keycombiner
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  How I learned 50 new keyboard shortcuts in 42 minutes

  July 21, 2020

  This post documents a challenge I set for myself to learn 50 new keyboard shortcuts, selected from several web applications. After 42 practice sessions, that take 1 minute each, I was able to type all shortcuts fast and accurately from memory. Thanks to KeyCombiner’s training history, I have detailed statistics and documentation of my progress.

  productivity • keycombiner
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  Why I built a new app for practicing keyboard shortcuts

  July 8, 2020

  I spent much of my social distancing free time on my first published solo project: KeyCombiner. This post covers how it compares to existing tools, what it tries to do, how it does it, and the road ahead.

  keycombiner
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  A Collection of all Keyboard Shortcuts I use

  June 9, 2020

  A complete collection of keyboard shortcuts that I use every day. The shortcuts are split by context in which they are applicable and annotated with categories. My most important contexts are IDEs, Editors, Operating System, and the Chrome browser.

  productivity • keycombiner