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Show HN: Keyjump – a keyboard-first new tab for power-users
I built Keyjump, a keyboard-first new tab page for quickly jumping between bookmarks, dashboards, and predefined site searches.
I originally made it for myself during my CS studies because I was constantly switching between tools and wanted something faster than clicking through bookmarks. I’ve used it locally for years and recently cleaned it up and made it public: https://keyjump.app/ https://keyjump.app/
Main characteristics:
- Keyboard-first navigation
- Custom search templates (e.g. jump directly to search results on specific sites)
- Local-first: data stored in browser local storage by default
- No account required
- Optional account for cross-device sync and persistence (when clearing browser data)
- Chrome extension available (Firefox planned); it also lets you quickly save bookmarks/search queries from other tabs and launch an overlay on any page
- Theme and layout customization
It’s intentionally simple and focused. I’d appreciate any feedback or criticism.
- Leftium 8mo agoI've been making something similar: https://multi-launch.leftium.com https://multi-launch.leftium.com Special features: - similar concept to Keyjump queries: the links change to search templates if the query input has a value - it can launch multiple bookmarks/queries at once (the blue category buttons) --- The next version is based on the realization search bangs are bookmarks + search templates: https://zbang.leftium.com https://zbang.leftium.com - Unique feature: double-keypress is effectively keyboard shortcut that also works on mobile! (FF to toggle fullscreen, QQ to select first result...) - Right now it's just a list of search bangs, but this list will be moved to a slash command - Then the list will be replaced with your own bookmarks, sorted by "frecency," with favorites pinned to the top. - Another tab will list your bookmark (search) history: a sort of "zero effort" journal. (I switched to Kagi, which lacks search history. And browser history is insufficient.) - Another tab can contain your notes (like SimpleNote) - I may even integrate dictation, so you don't even have to touch the keyboard (https://rift-transcription.vercel.app https://rift-transcription.vercel.app)
- kristianmitk 8mo agoThanks for sharing! What made you use cookies for storing edits?
- Leftium 8mo agoA goal of the site used to be to function without JS. (A progressively enhanced app) And it's a serverless app. So localStorage and DB were not options.
- Muhammad523 8mo agoLooks very nice! I cant wait to see the Firefox version.