Recently I felt some shortcuts in Dynalist are unnecessary and creates more troubles than they help.
I think we made the mistake thinking that most actions needs a shortcut for it. We assumed âyesâ rather than ânoâ. For something like going to the file pane, thereâs a shortcut Ctrl+Shift+F, which could be better used as an augmented version of Ctrl+F (search vs search everywhere). Plus opening/closing the file pane is probably something thatâs not used that frequently.
Of course, there are things that needs a keyboard shortcut without a doubt, such like collapse or mark as completed.
Some shortcuts that I think are unncessary:
Ctrl+L for marking LaTeX (conflicts with going to the address bar in Chrome)
I rarely do searches for something that requires autocomplete from the omnibar, and I typically wouldnât switch away from a document that Iâm working on without making a new tab, so I would suggest keeping this, or changing it to ctrl+m for math.
I donât use it that much, and I usually end up re-opening the file manager.
Itâ be nice if it appeared on the right side via a shortcut.
I feel like someone who is annoyed by this would already have this disabled it in their browser, would change the language, or prefer to add a word to their dictionary. Since I program a lot, I type out a bunch of strange âwordsâ, but havenât had much of an issue with it in Google Chrome.
I think users should definitely be able to set shortcuts for as many actions as possible, but: The four actions you mentioned shouldnât have a shortcut set by default.
The kind of people who are going to use keyboard shortcuts to that extent are the kind of people who know exactly what shortcuts they want and will set them anyway?
Setting shortcuts wonât really help discovery (in a meaningful way) anyway, and any discovery via the help sidebar on the right wonât be affected as users can see the action (if need to set a shortcut they like).
I actually submitted a âbug reportâ asking to change the LaTeX shortcut.
To try to help illustrate my use case: I usually have many Chrome windows open, each for a different project/task. I often open up Dynalist in each and navigate to particular parts. Dynalist documents are ephemerally useful, not âpinnedâ or anything.
Oh yeah, thatâs a genius idea. For some reason we had to give every action a default shortcut. I remember in some complex softwares (e.g. the IDE Iâm using now), some action can be customized to have a shortcut but doesnât come with a shortcut by default. Now I understand whyâŚ
