I love Google Reader… but I always forget the keyboard shortcuts. Having forgotten them so many times, I have the 2 clicks memorized to go find the keyboard shortcuts. In other words, to do something that may have taken a keyboard shortcut, I am using 2 clicks and a keyboard shortcut. Is it still a shortcut?
As online applications become more and more prominent, I propose the following:
Shift-K should be designated as the Keyboard Shortcut Keyboard Shortcut. Regardless of what application you are in on the web, pressing Shift-K should display a nice div with a list of all of the other keyboard shortcuts.
That will save me 2 clicks. (If you want, you can call it the Shift-Karr Shortcut Proposal)
Here they are if you were wondering:
| j/k | item down/up | selects the next/previous item in the list |
| space/shift-space | page down/up | moves the page down/up |
| n/p | scan down/up | in list view, selects the next item without opening it |
| o | open/close item | in list view, expands or collapses the selected item |
| enter | open/close item | in list view, expands or collapses the selected item |
| s | toggle star | stars the selected item |
| shift-s | toggle share | shares the selected item |
| m | mark as read/unread | switches the read state of the selected item |
| t | tag an item | opens the tagging field for the selected item |
| v | view original | opens the original source for this article in a new window |
| shift-a | mark all as read | marks all items in the current view as read |
| 1 | expanded view | displays the subscription as expanded items |
| 2 | list view | displays the subscription as a list of headlines |
| r | refresh | refreshes the unread counts in the navigation |
| shift-n/p | navigation down/up | selects the next/previous subscription or folder in the navigation |
| shift-x | navigation expand/collapse | expand or collapse a folder selected in the navigation |
| shift-o | navigation open subscription | opens the item currently selected in the navigation |
| gh | go to home | goes to the Google Reader homepage |
| ga | go to all items | goes to the “All items” view |
| gs | go to starred items | goes to the “Starred items” view |
| gt | go to tag | allows you to navigate to a tag by entering the tag name |
| gu | go to subscription | allows you to navigate to a subscription by entering the subscription name |
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