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Then I learned about Slack's quick open pallet and, oh, this is great.

I had years of Command-P baked into my muscle memory. For Sublime, that quick open pallet can be triggered with Command-P. I'm a longtime Sublime Text user and Sublime was really the first app that I encountered a quick open pallet affordance like that, just something that at a global level within the app, you can open and search for whatever you want to do, whatever you want to open, and you can type that and hit enter and it will open that thing. You probably know about it if you use Slack. My first point of contention with this type of differing keyboard shortcuts came when I learned about the Slack quick open palette. Let's go beyond this Command-S save example. That's where this idea of train your keyboard comes into play because those apps that just demand that you use their keyboard shortcut, they're basically asking that you retrain your own muscle memory.īut instead of retraining your muscle memory, what we'd rather do is train our keyboard or our computer to respond to the keyboard shortcuts that we want to use. They just don't expose that functionality to override it. Then some have type of keyboard shortcuts that are built into the app, but you literally can't override it at all. If the app exposes it there, you can override it in the system level, which is a little clunky to do, but at least it's available to do. It is pretty common to have the shortcut in the menu, in one of the menu items. That's awesome when an app does that, but not all apps do that. Some apps, the app will expose a way of overriding the shortcut in the app itself, in the settings. Sometimes you'll see some similarities across apps, but certainly not a standard.

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There's not some sort of ISO keyboard shortcut standard. We don't always agree with what app developers think is intuitive and they don't always agree with each other.

The problem is once you get away from those universal functionalities like save, copy, and paste, app developers tend to bring their own opinions to the table with what they think is intuitive for a keyboard shortcut. If someone were writing a text editor and the shortcut to save something was Command-Shift-Option-B, no one would use that. If you're writing an app that saves things, you're probably going to program that shortcut into your app.

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That Command-S shortcut is pretty universal on Mac computers. It's right up there with copy and paste, one of the first keyboard shortcuts that most people learn and that's much faster than clicking on the file menu and then clicking save. The simplest example would be just on a Mac, using Command-S to save a file. I'll assume that if you're listening to this podcast, you probably would agree that a keyboard shortcut is faster and more efficient than using the UI. For training your keyboard, it's a fancy way of talking about keyboard shortcuts. Why does a dev or whoever your target audience is, why would somebody need to train their keyboard? To use one of my favorite phrases, what problem does training your keyboard solve? There's a website that I want to ask about at some point, maybe towards the end, but we have a little ways to go before we get there. We're not talking about any of that today, but we are talking about something that is near and dear to your heart, and that is training your keyboard, right? In the intro, I was quickly saying we specialize in Laravel. There's only so many folks who've been on the show multiple times, so I'm glad to have you here. This is your second appearance on the show. I'm your host, Dave Hicking and this week, I'm joined by Andrew Morgan, a lead programmer here at Tighten.

We specialize in Laravel, a PHP framework, which we're often pairing with any number of JavaScript frameworks, libraries, and all sorts of tools.

Welcome to Twenty Percent Time, a podcast that takes you behind the scenes of Tighten, a web consultancy based out of Chicago, but entirely remote and spread out, really at this point, all over the place.

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Andrew Morgan (Lead Programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to tell us all about why you should be training your keyboard, how to get started, and a lot more.