ShowMeYourHotKeys For Mac

Hotkeys can make using applications a lot easier, but they aren’t always clear and simple to learn. And once you get used to a workflow without hotkeys, looking up shortcuts will seem like too much trouble to go through.

ShowMeYourHotKeys is a small app intended to help you find, learn, and remember useful shortcuts for all your applications. It is accessed with a single key at any time, and it lists all available hotkeys for the foreground app, while also allowing you to filter for relevant items.

There are a couple of ways to get the hotkey window on your screen. First, you can tap one of the modifiers two or more times; the modifier and number of presses are customizable. Second, you can hold down a modifier for one second or longer, in which case the window will only be displayed while the modifier is still pressed; again, the key and duration can be customized.

While the hotkey window is on your screen, you can make it full-screen, move it to the right or left side of the desktop, resize it freely, and filter entries by holding down modifiers or typing something in the search box. Pressing one or mode modifiers can either highlight shortcuts or remove non-relevant items from the window.

When learning new shortcuts, seeing them displayed on your desktop can help you memorize possible combinations, and it’s particularly helpful for users who don’t tend to use hotkeys. With this feature enabled, only keys pressed together with modifiers will be shown on your screen.

Another helpful feature is the hotkey database, which lists all the apps that have been used with ShowMeYourHotKeys and their shortcuts. This list can also be filtered. One small bug I’ve encountered is that the list sometimes froze when selecting Finder, making the app unusable until it was restarted.

ShowMeYourHotKeys is a very helpful tool for users looking to become more productive. It has plenty of features that make it easy to find and learn hotkeys, and it is quite intuitive.