![]() It’s a nice way to get a keyboard shortcut that might not be the most memorable off the bat, but becomes muscle memory over a bit of time. Pressing command+a number in Safari triggers items in the Bookmarks bar (whether it is visible or not) in their order from left to right (so the left-most is command+1, etc). I put the Instapaper bookmarklet into the Bookmarks bar. I hope Apple addresses this in an update. The key command never works until I load the menu manually. Several weeks/months ago I got rid of Flash in Safari (per Daring Fireball) and added a menu shortcut to the Open in Chrome command. Thanks for confirming what was a head-scratcher for me. Also Quix has really made it simple to hide a good number of lesser used bookmarklets. But I think that Instapaper deserves to proudly stay in the bookmark bar. I did a Fastscripts shortcut for an Applescript wrapped around Readability a long time ago, actually it might have been what pushed me into needing to pay up and leave the Lite version. Ken: I am guessing it will work well with Keyboard Maestro as well! I wonder if I could get this going with Keyboard Maestro. So the FastScripts solution has this going for it!Īha! Good point, Louije. Shortcuts assigned to Safari bookmarks via the Keyboard preference pane are not available until the menu has been loaded once–that is, you need to click the Bookmarks menu once per session for the shortcuts to work. ![]() I’ve made an extension for bookmark bar keyboard shortcuts in Chrome: This entry was posted to FastScripts, Usability, Web.ġ0 Responses to “Instapaper Keyboard Shortcut” Another downside to the System Preferences route? Apparently the keyboard shortcuts will never take effect until you’ve shown the menu that they appear in at least once per Safari-launch. It diminishes the necessity of the above workflow considerably, though I was pleased to be able to take “Read Later” out of my bookmarks bar. I was not aware that this would work with bookmarks! Very cool. Update: David Kendal observes on Twitter that you can assign custom keyboard shortcuts to bookmarks in Safari by simply using the System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts and assigning to the correctly named bookmark. Now whenever you see a cool page in Safari, just press Ctrl-P to instantly tag it for later reading.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |