Shortcut Coach

Overview

Shortcut Coach notices when you do something by hand that has a keyboard shortcut, such as choosing a menu command with the mouse, and shows you the shortcut. The tip drops down from the notch with the app’s icon, the action, and its keys.

Each action it notices goes into its history, which you can view, filter, and clear in Quick Search’s Hotkeys tab once you show the tab in Settings › Quick Search.

Shortcut

None

Tab in Quick Search

Hotkeys once you show it in Settings › Quick Search; hold ⌘ to see its key

macOS permissions

Accessibility, Input Monitoring

How to use it

1. Allow the two permissions it asks for: Accessibility and Input Monitoring.
2. Work as usual. When you do something by hand that has a shortcut, the shortcut drops down from the notch.
3. Show the Hotkeys tab in Settings › Quick Search, then look back at what it noticed there.

Key features

• Recognizes supported actions you do by hand that have a shortcut
• Shows the shortcut at the notch: the app’s icon, the action and app, and the keys
• A history of detected actions in the Hotkeys tab, to view, filter, and clear
• Send Test Suggestion in Settings shows what a tip looks like
• A legend of the keyboard symbols in Settings

Commands

Open its tab in Quick Search.

• Hotkeys tabIn Quick Search, once you show it in Settings › Quick Search. Hold ⌘ to see its key.

Permissions and privacy

Shortcut Coach asks for these macOS permissions while it’s on:

• AccessibilityWith Input Monitoring, lets Shortcut Coach recognize supported actions outside Keybumps.
• Input MonitoringLets Shortcut Coach recognize supported mouse and keyboard actions outside Keybumps.

Questions