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Shortcut Guide: App specific guide for foreground app #1431

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mikeparkie opened this issue Mar 3, 2020 · 2 comments
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Shortcut Guide: App specific guide for foreground app #1431

mikeparkie opened this issue Mar 3, 2020 · 2 comments

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@mikeparkie
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@mikeparkie mikeparkie commented Mar 3, 2020

App specific shortcut guide for any configured app using a modifier + foreground running application.

The Shortcut Guide would function normally with the Windows key long press, but what if you added a modifier key and getting an app specific Shortcut Guide to load when pressing a modifier key whilst the app X is in the foreground.

Example: PhotoShop is running in the foreground, you press Windows+Alt+P and it loads all of the PS shortcuts just like the normal Shortcut Guide.

A catalogue of popular applications would need to be built and people could easily contribute to popular applications using a template.

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@crutkas crutkas commented Mar 4, 2020

This would be dependent on future work of making the UX configurable.

Not a bad idea, things to consider

  • a lot heavier of settings screen.
    • hybrid of global and app shortcuts
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@adam-wood adam-wood commented May 20, 2020

I like this enhancement idea as well. I achieve this currently in a very clunky way with AutoHotkey and jpegs. Depending on the foreground app, I see the relevant jpeg with shortcuts for the foreground app. It's great for learning new shortcuts, especially as new shortcuts get introduced (Eg Power BI). Having it baked in with community maintained shortcut lists for various apps would be great.

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