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Alternative: https://shortcat.app/ https://shortcat.app/

by hs86 4y ago

aikinai 4y ago
Have you tried both? Any tips on which might be better?
- tincanner 4y ago
  just tried both, homerow seemed noticeably faster to me.
ChrisLTD 4y ago
Shortcat is my favorite of these sorts of apps. I just wish there was a way to make all of them faster. The delay between requesting the link hints and then actually displaying on screen is painful enough that I haven’t been able to incorporate it into my workflow. Most of these apps seem to tie into MacOS’s accessibility framework for the hinting, and I’m guessing the delay is being caused by waiting for and then acting on these response from that framework.
- chris_st 4y ago
  There's a customizable delay in Shortcat that you may have set. Otherwise, buy an M2 Air like mine and see it fly :-)
  - ChrisLTD 4y ago
    I have it set to immediate, and I'm using it on a M1 Pro machine :-D
- brentm 4y ago
  Just tried this one, works great on M1 Max. No delays.
  - dmix 4y ago
    I'm using it on a M1 Max and it's pretty slow to initialize the yellow key options... even when the setting is on "immediate". I took a screencast: https://imgur.com/a/xL5CgJ2 https://imgur.com/a/xL5CgJ2 With Vimium when you hit "f" it actually appears immediately. It takes a full second with Shortcat.
    - ChrisLTD 4y ago
      Yep, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
    - philsnow 4y ago
      The app in the screencast is Firefox; if you run Accessibility Inspector.app and try to inspect, for instance, the "NN minutes ago" link text in your comment, this is what it looks like in Firefox [0] and this is what it looks like in Safari [1]. Firefox (and Chrome) look like giant completely opaque windows to the macOS accessibility API, the only things you can "see" to click on are the close/minimize/maximize buttons, whereas Safari exposes its entire interface and a lot of the web page to the API. It looks like Homerow is somehow scraping a short list of apps, "Popular non-native apps such as Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Arc, Visual Studio Code, Spotify, Slack, Discord, and Obsidian are supported. I'm working on supporting more non-native apps." I don't know how shortcat etc do it. [0] https://snap.philsnow.io/2023-04-05T10-04-07.bmgoq2rkwxqmy28kcp34.png https://snap.philsnow.io/2023-04-05T10-04-07.bmgoq2rkwxqmy28... [1] https://snap.philsnow.io/2023-04-05T10-01-44.gdj1z3ukbq712zwza4q0.png https://snap.philsnow.io/2023-04-05T10-01-44.gdj1z3ukbq712zw...
      - dmix 4y ago
        I don’t think it has anything to do with FF. Happens with every app I’ve tried including the macOS settings app. I’ll try Homerow.
rideontime 4y ago
that icon has such Mac OS X energy, I love it
- dmix 4y ago
  I remember wanting to buy a Mac after seeing the Transmit app icon.
- wellthisisgreat 4y ago
  the icon is incredible!
asciii 4y ago
Thanks! I'm in love with this and needed something similar to Chrome's Vimium extension
morgango 4y ago
This is super cool, a great addition to Alfred for typing goodness.

Alternative: https://shortcat.app/ https://shortcat.app/

by hs86 4y ago

Alternative: https://shortcat.app/ https://shortcat.app/

aikinai 4y ago

Have you tried both? Any tips on which might be better?

tincanner 4y ago
just tried both, homerow seemed noticeably faster to me.

ChrisLTD 4y ago

Shortcat is my favorite of these sorts of apps. I just wish there was a way to make all of them faster. The delay between requesting the link hints and then actually displaying on screen is painful enough that I haven’t been able to incorporate it into my workflow. Most of these apps seem to tie into MacOS’s accessibility framework for the hinting, and I’m guessing the delay is being caused by waiting for and then acting on these response from that framework.

chris_st 4y ago
There's a customizable delay in Shortcat that you may have set. Otherwise, buy an M2 Air like mine and see it fly :-)
- ChrisLTD 4y ago
  I have it set to immediate, and I'm using it on a M1 Pro machine :-D
brentm 4y ago
Just tried this one, works great on M1 Max. No delays.
- dmix 4y ago
  I'm using it on a M1 Max and it's pretty slow to initialize the yellow key options... even when the setting is on "immediate". I took a screencast: https://imgur.com/a/xL5CgJ2 https://imgur.com/a/xL5CgJ2 With Vimium when you hit "f" it actually appears immediately. It takes a full second with Shortcat.
  - ChrisLTD 4y ago
    Yep, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
  - philsnow 4y ago
    The app in the screencast is Firefox; if you run Accessibility Inspector.app and try to inspect, for instance, the "NN minutes ago" link text in your comment, this is what it looks like in Firefox [0] and this is what it looks like in Safari [1]. Firefox (and Chrome) look like giant completely opaque windows to the macOS accessibility API, the only things you can "see" to click on are the close/minimize/maximize buttons, whereas Safari exposes its entire interface and a lot of the web page to the API. It looks like Homerow is somehow scraping a short list of apps, "Popular non-native apps such as Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Arc, Visual Studio Code, Spotify, Slack, Discord, and Obsidian are supported. I'm working on supporting more non-native apps." I don't know how shortcat etc do it. [0] https://snap.philsnow.io/2023-04-05T10-04-07.bmgoq2rkwxqmy28kcp34.png https://snap.philsnow.io/2023-04-05T10-04-07.bmgoq2rkwxqmy28... [1] https://snap.philsnow.io/2023-04-05T10-01-44.gdj1z3ukbq712zwza4q0.png https://snap.philsnow.io/2023-04-05T10-01-44.gdj1z3ukbq712zw...
    - dmix 4y ago
      I don’t think it has anything to do with FF. Happens with every app I’ve tried including the macOS settings app. I’ll try Homerow.

rideontime 4y ago

that icon has such Mac OS X energy, I love it

dmix 4y ago
I remember wanting to buy a Mac after seeing the Transmit app icon.
wellthisisgreat 4y ago
the icon is incredible!

asciii 4y ago

Thanks! I'm in love with this and needed something similar to Chrome's Vimium extension

morgango 4y ago

This is super cool, a great addition to Alfred for typing goodness.