Avoiding Productivity Mouse Traps
summary
Claim: memorizing every shortcut is unrealistic but fixing a few concrete edit-and-browse flows yields big wins. Measurement uses KLM GOMS: keystroke ~0.2s, homing/pointing ~2s, examples show full mouse-driven roundtrip ~11.4s, keyboard-only ~2.6 seconds, mixed ~4.2s. Demonstrations use jumpy / jump plugins, Alfred (clipboard history, snippets, searches), vimium, expand‑region, fuzzy file/symbol search and Chrome DevTools palette. Live demos and timings show consistent 5x–10x practical speedups across editors and browsers.
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:34About me
- 1:16Facebook group
- 2:10Productivity excitement
- 2:41Development flow
- 3:50Mouse
- 5:17KLM Gums
- 8:17Shortcuts
- 9:09Productivity Tips
- 9:51Moving the Cursor
- 10:20Speed
- 10:53Word by Word
- 12:01Jumpy
- 13:03Selecting
- 13:41Selection
- 14:56File Navigation
- 15:20The 5X
- 16:14The 10X
- 17:09Fuzzy File Search
- 18:03Dev Tools
- 18:14Inspect
- 19:27Command Palette
- 20:19Browsing
- 22:37Fuzzy Tab Search
- 23:52CSS Grid
- 26:14Fuzzy Menus
- 27:07Alfred App
- 29:52Walks
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