The geek web trembled with the announcement of Ubiquity, the QuickSilver for the web. Well, it happens that I am not a fan of that application. I rarely use Spotlight to open my apps (which is fine for me). Why? Because I’m a Mouser, I am more productive using it, and shortcuting through all applications.
I’m happy that I wasn’t the one thinking the same:
Now don’t get me wrong, I am a fairly fast typist. But my problem is I can’t remember commands. Putting a keyboard command in my head is like putting sand in a sieve. The reason I love graphical interfaces is because I can’t remember shit. I wish I could, because I am sure I would be much more efficient. Keyboards are much faster than mice and GUIs. The problem is when you are staring at a keyboard you have to remember what to do. A GUI is for me a giant cheat sheet.
Same applies to me. I have two modes. The one when I’m writing code from scratch and my both hands are on the keyboard, and using the cmd+s shortcut a lot! Or I have one hand on the mouse, poping up menus, and clicking in buttons, and the other in cmd+c,v.
Even a long, long time ago, when I used to live without a mouse in Windows 3.1, I use the Alt shortcuts that allowed me to navigate through the menus, instead of the Cntr shortcuts that had to be memorized.
So most of the geeks are productive with their keyboard, and even in terminals and terminal-based editor like emacs or vim, but I’m really happy in my GUI software just like the majority of users, to whom the only keys they use in the keyboard are the letters, numbers, space and enter :)