The idea behind most productivity tips is that you lose if you touch your mouse, as it is such a time consuming move and unbearable physical effort.
But you also lose points when doing big jumps on your keyboard, for example when you try reaching for the arrow keys.
So what should we do ? Here are some tips.
Tridactyl on Firefox
Tridactyl is an extension available for Firefox that enable a keyboard-based navigation.
Vim-based navigation
Vim is a text editor on UNIX systems, and has a strong reputation for its ultra-fast navigation. The Normal mode in Tridactyl, identically to Vim's Normal mode, uses H, J, K, L instead of the arrow keys for moving the cursor.
VIM modes mechanism
In Tridactyl, we have something like that
;p, which will copy the selected element using hint mode. There are many convenient keybindings for various actions.
Here are other keybindings:
D |
Close tab |
U |
reopen last closed tab (instead of Ctrl+Shift+T) |
Shift+A |
toggle page as bookmarked |
R |
refresh page |
Shift+Esc |
toggle Tridactyl |