I personally feel that the two most important shortcuts will be the double taps.
“s+s” which takes you to settings.
The second being the default page for manage projects which is the dashboard. So either “d+d” or “p+p” or “m+m” (current).
The double tap of the same key I think is vital in creating a really easy and fast shortcut to these two main areas.
Personally my vote for manage projects would be “d+d” instead of “p+p”, purely because it’s right next to the s key. But I think anything is fine as long as it’s the same key twice imo.
We switch all the time between Studio Setting and Projects Settings.
“s+s” is perfect, as it is on the left side (without having to move the right hand from its mouse).
Could we have another double key located on the left side, which would lead to any of the Projects Settings ? (Anatomy, Project Settings, Dashboard, etc…)
Because currently the “m” letter is so far on the right that you always need 2 hands (or 1 hand but slowly because of the distance). The “m” letter is even farther on non-qwerty keyboards…
For example “d+d” or “q+q” would be perfect to access the Projects Settings.
Moved all shortcuts to be easily accessible by the left hand within the WASD area.
Removed more specific shortcuts like s+a and s+b as I believe they are too difficult to remember and inconsistent. Now all navigation shortcuts are always the same key twice.
Name
Old Key
New Key
Action
Unchanged
Studio Settings
s+s
s+s
navigate to ‘/settings/studio’
Project Menu
1
1
Toggles the project menu open/closed
Changed
Users Settings
s+u
f+f
navigate to ‘/settings/users’
Dashboard
m+m
d+d
navigate to ‘/manageProjects/dashboard’
Project Settings
m+s
a+a
navigate to ‘/manageProjects/projectSettings’
Help Menu
8
3
Toggles the help menu open/closed
User Menu
9
4
Toggles the user menu open/closed
Logout
9+9
4+4
Logs the user out
App Menu
0
5
Toggles the app menu open/closed
Added
Events
e+e
navigate to ‘/events’
GraphQL
q+q
navigate to ‘/explorer’
API
w+w
navigate to ‘/doc/api’
Removed
Bundles Settings
s+b
navigate to ‘/settings/bundles’
Attributes Settings
s+a
navigate to ‘/settings/attributes’
Anatomy Presets Settings
s+p
navigate to ‘/settings/anatomyPresets’
Teams
m+t
navigate to ‘/manageProjects/teams’
Anatomy
m+a
navigate to ‘/manageProjects/anatomy’
The original post has been updated to latest shortcuts.
Please let me know how it feels. We can get away with changing the shortcuts now but it will very hard to change shortcuts later on once everyone has already developed muscle memory for them.
Small update, after extensive testing we will be moving back to a less opinionated and more obvious layout.
Sorry @Yul, we tested having all of the shortcuts on the left but the learning curve was just too high and it restricted it to the most power of power users. Trying to explain why “s+s” goes to settings but “p+p” doesn’t go to project settings is awkward and confusing.
I will not make a fork just for a few shortcuts, it seems overkill
So I will use d+d and then mouse-click on “Project Settings”.
It’s longer than a+a, but I’m sure I will never use p+p as long as I need to have a mouse
EDIT : but I cannot use it anymore, as d+d now leads to /dashboard/tasks instead of /manageProjects/dashboard, so I cannot access to other project settings from there.
With the latests changes, d+d doesn’t lead to /manageProjects/dashboard anymore, it now goes to /dashboard/tasks, so it cannot be used to quickly access tabs of the Projects Settings anymore.
There are 2 big areas :
-Studio Settings, containing these tabs : Bundles, Studio Settings, Site Settings, Users, etc…
-Projects Settings, containing these tabs : Anatomy, Project Settings, Site Settings, Roots, etc…
There are 2 shortcuts that lead to tabs in Studio Settings (/settings/) : s+s and u+u.
There is only 1 shortcut that leads to Projects Settings (/manageProjects/) : p+p.
Could you add a second one, for example a+a to lead to Anatomy (a tab of the Projects Settings), please ?
It would open /manageProjects/anatomy
And it respects the rule “use a shortkey which is the first letter of its target”.
Then p+p could lead to /manageProjects/projectSettings again (it’s easier to remember, as project begins with p).
