Help overlay with the keyboard shortcuts (ala Google Reader)
(closed account) says:
I looked through the old posts asking about features to remind users of the often forgotten keyboard shortcuts, and didn't see much was done besides adding the tooltips for buttons. This is nice, but an additional method I think would be really useful is to add a shortcut key that would pop up an overlay that the user would be able to quickly reference and then esc out. You can see an example of this with the Google Reader app. When you press '?' (shift + /) while using the app, an overlay pops up displaying all the shortcut keys.
This should keep shortcuts unobtrusive for those who don't need to see them, and make them easily available from the keyboard for those who do need to see them.
This should keep shortcuts unobtrusive for those who don't need to see them, and make them easily available from the keyboard for those who do need to see them.
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emily (Remember The Milk) says:
emily (Remember The Milk) says:
Try pressing "?". :)
This is now available in the new Remember The Milk.
Thanks for everyone's feedback on this!
This is now available in the new Remember The Milk.
Thanks for everyone's feedback on this!
janniklindquist says:
Voted
barend.strydom says:
I agree...great idea
jweede says:
This would be great. Although it can be done right now with a User Script, I'd like to see it added to the default.
rmchale says:
+1
axolx says:
Most of us use sites with different mappings to its essential to have a quick cheat sheet that's easy to pull up.
mikefiedler says:
This is something severely lacking in my adoption/learning of more shortcuts, as I now have to open in another window, find the shortcut, and then close the new window to go do what I wanted.
katylava says:
Why are there so many down-votes (relative to up-votes) for this? I don't see how this could get in anyone's way, unless they don't like keyboard shortcuts at all, in which case that's a completely different issue.
Please, just do this. I'm always hitting '?' in RTM before I remember it doesn't work here.
Please, just do this. I'm always hitting '?' in RTM before I remember it doesn't work here.
katylava says:
BTW, I just paid $25 to go pro so my up-vote would count double for this.
(closed account) says:
Was just about to add this to ideas and found this post. This seems a convention on sites with keyboard shortcuts (google, github, etc) so would be nice to have. I keep hitting '?' trying to bring it up for a reminder.