And no, I will not tell you what my company app is.

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    8 months ago

    It would be hilarious if all these apps were secretly just like vim. They all have complex hotkey setups that enable power users to get where they need to be in at most 3 key presses.

    And the unititiated has to google to find where their god damn setting is actually located.

    Honestly that would be great.

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      8 months ago

      Very often they do. Many of these internal applications are from mainframe computer times when interacting with applications exclusively via the keyboard shortcuts was the norm. In most companies, they never dared to remove those because the Power Users are used to them for decades.

      Problem is, few people are trained directly by those power users so they never learn those efficient shortcuts. And they are never well documented.

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        8 months ago

        One of my favorite extensions is vimium. It enables vim like navigation on web browsers. If you press ? It brings up a menu showing all the key bindings, it’s very helpful. Adding that and a hotkey highlighter would be a good way to document such programs. It’s too bad that sort of thing isnt a priority