Change keyboard shortcuts to allow for basic up/down vim-style navigation?

[andrewrothman]

I've been hearing about Fizzy on the Rework Podcast - It looks great!

I haven't tried it yet (sorry!) (update: it works great), but I just watched Jason's walkthrough video.

One piece of initial feedback I thought to provide from the video demo...

It seems that currently the top menu opens with J and the bottom menu opens with K... (I think these are lowercase?)

One thing that could be neat in the future would be moving up and down through a card stack with J (lower) and K (lower) keys a la vim (and perhaps Enter to open a card).

Proposed:

• Move up and down through a card stack:
  • Keyboard shortcut: J (lower) and K (lower)
  • ie. same as X.com - allows using J (lower) and K (lower) for moving up and down through a feed.
• Open top menu
  • Keyboard shortcut: Command-K on Mac, or Control-K on Omarchy or other Linux or Windows
  • ie. same as many other tools, Linear, Figma, etc. for opening a command palette.
• Search
  • Keyboard shortcut: / (slash)
  • ie. same as YouTube, DuckDuckGo and Google results pages, vim, etc. for focusing or activating search.
  • This one is a bit tricky, because it looks like there's also a "Filter these cards..." input within a board, so maybe filtering could be "/" and the bottom menu search becomes Command-Shift-K or Control-Shift-K or Command-P or Control-P (like VS Code) (eh... usability tradeoffs)

If that makes sense, it could be good to change the current J and K to Command-K or Control-K and / respectively before users develop muscle memory, to keep the J and K as Down/Up movements open as a future possibility without needing to add a special "Vim-mode" toggle, etc.

It's also possible I'm misunderstanding the current or future intent of these menus, but they seem roughly analogous to common UI/UX patterns on first glance. Also non-technical users may not be as familiar with the shortcuts proposed above, but Command-K in particular is quite common.

Anyway, just a suggestion - really neat and innovative UI and product work! ( and congrats to the devs on release as well ;) )

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