Mac / App keyboard shortcuts

Ref: ⇧ Shift, ⌃ Control, ⌥ Option, ⌘ Command, ␣ Space, ↩ Return, ⎋ Escape, ⇥ Tab

General

  • ⌘ ␣ - Spotlight
  • ⌘ ⇥, ⌃ ←→ - Switch apps, switch windows
  • ⌘ ` - Switch window of current app
  • ⇧ ⌘ 4 - Take screenshot to clipboard
  • ⇧ ⌃ ⌘ 4 - Take screenshot to desktop

The following work in chrome, sublime, and sortof iterm (to be confirmed)

  • ⌘ T, ⌘ W - New tab, close tab
  • ⌃ ⌘ F - Fullscreen
  • ⌃ ⇥ (⇧ ⌃ ⇥) - Switch tabs

General text editing

  • ⌥ ←,→ - Jump to next word
  • ⌘ ←,→ - Start of line, end of line
  • ⌘ ↑,↓ - Start of document, end of document
  • ⌃ ⌘ space - insert symbol

Chrome - General

  • ⌘ L - select address bar
  • ⌘ W - Close tab
  • ⌘ L, ⌘ C - Copy current url

Gmail

Note that the todoist plugin can mess with this stuff...

From this gmail help page

  • G I - Goto inbox
  • ↑,↓ - Change current
  • ↩︎ - Open current
  • X - Select current
  • E - Archive selected or open
  • R - Reply (jump to reply section of open)
  • ⌘ ↩︎ - Send
  • / - Search (a little buggy)
  • C - Compose

Google Calendar

From this google help page

  • J - Next date range
  • K - Previous date range
  • T - Today
  • 1,2,3,4,5 - Day, week, month, custom, agena

Todoist web app

From this Todoist support page

  • / - Search bar
  • Q - quick add
  • A - add a new item
  • S, P - sort by date, priority
  • U - Undo
  • ⌃ M - Add quick comment

Bear Writer

From Bear support doc here. Will not include the navigation components, because currently a little unreliable, and to be honest bear is best suited for simple, immersive, focus kind of tasks.

  • ⌃ 1,2,3 - Sidebar-distraction free
  • ⌘ N - New note
  • ⌥ ⌘ 1,2,3 - Heading 1,2,3
  • ⌥ ⌘ S - Horizonal line
  • ⇧ ⌘ T - Mark todo

Sublime Text

  • ⌘ P - Search files
  • ⇧ ⌘ P - Search
  • ⌘ / - Comment out line
  • ⌃ 0 - Move focus to sidebar

iTerm

  • ⌥ ␣ - Quick entry window

Sketchup

  • ␣ - Select
  • ⌃⌘ - Rotate
  • ⇧⌃⌘ - Pan
  • P - Push / pull
  • E - erase
  • ←→↑ - lock your movement in the various axes

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