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Re:Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X by malandrew on Friday June 07, 2013 @06:44PM (#5842553)
Being able to define new shortcuts in real time is awesome, but half the battle. Helping me learn the shortcuts that are already there is the other half.

Can you guys add a feature that flashes on the screen the keyboard shortcut that already exist for an action performed via the mouse?

Even better if you can add a threshold for an action. For a trivial example, imagine just going to the edit menu and choosing cut/paste/copy. If I perform that action more often than once every 10 minutes, shortcat would flash a fairly large overlay on my screen showing me that shortcut. You could even make this progressive. First teach me any shortcuts for any action performed every 5 minutes for a particular application. Once I learn all those actions, expand the threshold one minute at a time until I learn a new action. Once I consistently perform those actions within the threshold via the keyboard, further increase the threshold until I learn all the commands.

How much do you plan on charging?

Re:Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X by watterssn on Friday June 07, 2013 @08:31PM (#5843033)
To help with the other half (of learning the existing shortcuts) you can learn them at https://www.shortcutfoo.com

Shortcat seems like a great complement to shortcutFoo! Very cool idea.

(disclaimer: I created shortcutFoo)

Re:Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X by malandrew on Saturday June 08, 2013 @01:21AM (#5843933)
Cool. However, what I really want is an app that trains me while I'm doing my own work. Going to a specific site to practice on that site is great and all but it doesn't help me remember a shortcut nearly as much as learning that shortcut while working on my own work. Learning on my own work is far more likely to be retained, because my brain can link the recently learned shortcut with something which has meaning to me and is likely to be far more top of mind than a random lesson example.
Re:Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X by _chendo_ on Friday June 07, 2013 @07:38PM (#5842822)
I must've missed the charging part.

Right now, I've implemented maybe 10% of the features I want to add. I'll be adding licensing soon, but given that most people probably wouldn't pay for features that's not there, I'm probably going to start at $12, then bump it whenever I ship a major feature. Early adopters will end up saving a bit.

The licensing will be cheaper when it's in beta too.

Re:Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X by malandrew on Saturday June 08, 2013 @01:25AM (#5843944)
$12? Totally worth it.

Might I suggest checking out the Van Westerndorp approach to pricing a product intelligently to make you the most revenue?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Westendorp's_Price_Sensitiv...

Re:Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X by jimmcslim on Friday June 07, 2013 @09:23PM (#5843214)
Ergonis' KeyCue is an app that might also help with learning Mac app keyboard shortcuts. http://www.ergonis.com/products/keycue
Re:Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X by _chendo_ on Friday June 07, 2013 @07:20PM (#5842732)
I actually had this idea before I came up with Shortcat. The problem was that there was no reliable way of linking an action to its keyboard shortcut without installing hooks into an application and tracing all the method calls and seeing which ones match up.

If you limited it to clicking the menus in the top where the shortcuts are defined, it's more doable but I personally didn't see much merit in that since I'm terrible at memorising keyboard shortcuts anyway.. :)

Re:Shortcat - Keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X by stereo on Sunday June 09, 2013 @03:50PM (#5850247)
Eve ( http://www.hotkey-eve.com/ ) will recommend shortcuts when you don't use them.