Ever wondered how many key combinations our keyboards (assume a 101 key keyboard) have and what all we can do with those?
The answer to the first part of the question - I leave it to you guys to answer.
My answer to the second part - A LOT!
For the benefit of those who don't know what global hotkeys are, these are key combinations assigned to perform a task in an application. Just like Ctrl + Alt + Delete. Another example, I'm currently using the browser and I want to switch to the next track in my music player. A simple Ctrl + Alt + Right Arrow does it for me. It avoids the arduous task of going to the music player and switching to the next song and returning to the browser. Got the hang of it? Good.
If there's a way to assign custom keys to various tasks in various applications, wouldn't that be cool? Now add mouse input to this. Even cooler. Add touch to it. Add speech to it. Add any other input mechanism you can think of to it. Too complicated now? That's ok. You'll get used to it. You'll be amazingly productive on the computer thereafter.
AFAIK, there doesn't exist a tool through which you can assign shortcuts for tasks from various applications even for the keyboard. Such a tool would a super cool tool in my eyes.
PS: Quite an off-topic post probably? Just wanted to let people about global hotkeys if they haven't heard of them.
The answer to the first part of the question - I leave it to you guys to answer.
My answer to the second part - A LOT!
For the benefit of those who don't know what global hotkeys are, these are key combinations assigned to perform a task in an application. Just like Ctrl + Alt + Delete. Another example, I'm currently using the browser and I want to switch to the next track in my music player. A simple Ctrl + Alt + Right Arrow does it for me. It avoids the arduous task of going to the music player and switching to the next song and returning to the browser. Got the hang of it? Good.
If there's a way to assign custom keys to various tasks in various applications, wouldn't that be cool? Now add mouse input to this. Even cooler. Add touch to it. Add speech to it. Add any other input mechanism you can think of to it. Too complicated now? That's ok. You'll get used to it. You'll be amazingly productive on the computer thereafter.
AFAIK, there doesn't exist a tool through which you can assign shortcuts for tasks from various applications even for the keyboard. Such a tool would a super cool tool in my eyes.
PS: Quite an off-topic post probably? Just wanted to let people about global hotkeys if they haven't heard of them.
