What are some products with great, keyboard-shortcut focused first time user experiences?

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Example: Medium.com has a captivating set of tips along the bottom when you first write a post; about half of which are keyboard shortcuts. What other great products out there are innovative in this way :)?

Nick Abouzeid · Accepted Answer

If Spotlight was actually powerful, it would be Alfred. Alfred lets you build in hundreds of shortcuts, including my favorite "Open {{file name}}" all from your keyboard.

Saved me hours - was the first thing I installed when I got my new computer.

Nick Abouzeid · Answer

Emojis EVERYWHERE!

Touch bar has nothing on this. Only way to use emojis on Mac. 🚀

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I am not really sure if Keyboard Maestro would fit here, but it's a great app if you want to do keyboard-shortcuts (virtual mouse and keyboard inputs) on any app!

Niv Dror · Answer

I use this app only through keyboard shortcuts to move apps around the screen

Gaurav Vohra · Answer

Turn every single website in your browser into something you can keyboard shortcut your way through! I can't begin to describe how much mental effort this saves me as I browse websites on a day to day basis...

phillpafford · Answer

The only keyboard shortcut / hotkey app you'll ever need! It displays any applications shortcuts

Payton Guthrie · Answer

Best chat app on the market and super easy to use mouse free...beautiful layout on Mac as well

Nick Abouzeid · Answer

Live. Saver. Especially when you're moving a bunch of text between windows or pages.

Access up to 40 of the past things you've copied, directly from your keyboard. I change the shortcut to CMD+Shift+V, but to each his own 🤗

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Very helpful for me too. I use Alfred Remote for quick weather, currency conversions, defining words, searching Twitter. :)

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Keyboard Maestro is crazy awesome. I have been using for an year now for a ton of automation and hotkeys. I love this app!

The Sultan of Sex · Answer

Alfred is the ultimate productivity app. This will MAKE you a keyboard shortcut freak (if you aren't already, for some reason...)

kazz · Answer

Boostnote has tons of shortcut keys such as search, copy of snippet and etc.... There are boost my productivity.

Niv Dror · Answer

Never use your mouse again.

Larry Kokoszka · Answer

Ghost browser has keyboard shortcuts to open up isolated cookie jars in the same browser window and also new Projects on the fly. We'll be expanding keyboard shortcuts to include a lot of other stuff too...probably in the order that they are requested.

Waldo Broodryk · Answer

Super easy to modify, and it includes the ability to add custom fields easily.

Ben Adamski · Answer

I can't believe this isn't higher! My first install on any new computer.

Ben Adamski · Answer

For the keyboard shortcut enthusiast, that also wants rain-man-like control over every granular aspect of everything their keyboard and trackpad could ever do. I often forget how much I've  configured here...until I don't have it running and start panicking.

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I am the creator of Anyshortcut, a productive Chrome extension to help you open your frequently visited websites instantly!  I think everyone worth it a try!

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Quickey Tab sets keyboard-shortcuts for launching websites/bookmarks! It introduces keyboard-shortcuts in a uniquely visual/customizable way (drag-and-drop customization, emoji personalization)

Tyler Michael Larson · Answer

Brilliant app.  It's the bees knees when it comes to keyboard macro recording with ease. It's an intuitive way to build complex workflows to save time and strained hands on mouse/trackpads.  This app allows you to take those great keyboard shortcuts you know and love, and bring them into other programs, control your UI, run scripts, macros, workflows, actions, etc.  Also great to be running alongside alfred, karabiner and either a macropad and/or a programmable keyboard for ultimate workflow control.

Ben Adamski · Answer

I tried it out briefly and found auto expanding all of my favorite emojis (every slack default) as snippets in alfred to always be faster—but I'm keeping my eyes on Rocket!

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I tried Rocket on my Mac once. Found it a bit slow/not working in certain cases, but is a good choice, nevertheless.

Ben Adamski · Answer

Nothing even compares for screenshots, videos, gifs and heavily annotating any of those options. I  can't imagine my computer life without it. (They don't pay me but I'd quit any job I've had to work there in a ❤beat)

Valentin Décarpentrie · Answer

Perfect to get emojis on computer

Ben Adamski · Answer

Slack's desktop app does keyboard shortcuts right. I almost never use my mouse for anything. (except maybe scrolling through large libraries of emojis)

Ben Adamski · Answer

Still think Evernote needs more keyboard love, but since they released a hotkey for fuzzy searching anything from tags, titles, notebooks or keywords, I haven't used anything else to dig through my Evernote.

Niv Dror · Answer

Evernote has some very useful keyboard shortcuts. Although, now that I use the emoji keyboard shortcut, I end triggering an Evernote command quite often unintentionally. 😅

David Adamu · Answer

As a designer, I find myself using Dribbble for inspiration. They have nice shortcut to like a post and perform other operations.

Jarod Stewart · Answer

Seriously one of the easiest apps to set up and use

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Great, great app! Fully keyboard-based.

Gonçalo Brito · Answer

Agreed!

Set Kyar Wa Lar · Answer

Best keyboard shortcut app for mac!

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aText is an excellent choice if you want a tool for expanding text. I have been using for an year now and I don't have complaints.

Niv Dror · Answer

Excel (using this as a representative example) is the holy grail of keyboard shortcuts

Niv Dror · Answer

Record screenshots, videos, and GIFs, and annotate in the cloud via keyboard shortcuts. Very useful, use CloudApp multiple times daily. Disclosure: minor investor ✌️

Victor Cazacu · Answer

Always on top snapshots - annotatable, shareable, organised and synced via iCloud.

Adem Bilican · Answer

I developed canSnippet to easily save and re-use pieces of code wherever and whenever needed. There are only 3 main keyboard shortcuts to remember to be extremely productive with code snippets.