I’m a great believer in the power of the keyboard as a productivity tool. Mice are great pointing devices, and if you spend your day working with graphics then they’re probably your best friend. But for people like me who mainly deal in words, whenever our hands leave the keyboard it’s both a waste of time and an interruption to the flow of thought.

Another criticism of the mouse as a control device is that it’s fundamentally serial access rather than random access. To perform a function you need to move the pointer from A to B via all pixels in between. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to effectively jump through a wormhole to your destination.

As a Mac user I’m pretty lucky, OSX supports the keyboard pretty well out of the box. However not quite well enough for me, so I looked for ways to make it even better.
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