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by franole 3314 days ago
>keep your hands on the keyboard

It is probably a question of generation, but young people do not want to use the keyboard and do not value the agility that can be achieved. Not so long ago, I spent some time adding keyboard shortcuts to an ERP written in Angular, just to realize that only ~ 30% of users (those who had used the old DOS-based ERP) saw value in that requirement.

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While I get you on the under-appreciation of keyboard shortcuts, I think in this case there is some overlap as a selling feature with both user types since the actual application itself (vs navigation) is a text note-taking application...
I use the keyboard for everything - but would probably ignore your shortcuts because I already have extensions that let me use the keyboard efficiently in the browser environment.