Communicating shortcuts

[cycloon]

To improve discoverability, it would be great to add every one of the shortcuts as a menu entry including its Shortcut listed in the menu.

[Kilian]

That might be a PITA as some commands live in the text editor instead of in the app shell level, but I'll see what I can do :)

[utahcon]

I wouldn't bother doing that, instead I would just document them really well on the site, or in the wiki

[Kilian]

@cycloon how about adding a small list in the initial text?

[Kilian]

This is a suggestion by @rucuriousyet, in #37.

Hi, I love this tool but I am really hoping for one feature in specific. I can't really remember the shortcut commands, It would be really awesome if a helper could be made just like the "Already saved" dialog/message that when CMD or CTRL is pressed would show with a small list of the shortcuts combos. For example + | - zoom in/out. I would be willing to help implement this.

Lets continue the discussion on how to communicate the shortcuts in this ticket.

We can

• List them in the initial text
• Have an overlay when you press F1/open Help in the menu
• Another option?

[thob]

I'd rather have this more persistent. I tend to forget easily ;-)

[spike1234]

I like F1!

[cycloon]

There is a good reason, why Apple does show the shortcuts in the menu. As people stated above, you might not remember every shortcut in the first place.

Having a menu entry called "Shortcuts" might help a bit. Place this under "Help", let it show the list of available shortcuts.

But you still lose the ability to learn the shortcuts by just using the menu.

[Jamezhall]

I vote for F1, It would get old if we had to open another app just to find shortcuts for this app. Would be a poor user experience. Keep it all in the app, longer in the app the better :)!

[MarioRicalde]

+1 for F1.

[Kilian]

Here's what happens when you press F1 in the next version, or go to "show shortcuts" in the menu.