So, I love anything spaced repetition and am addicted to Anki, but when it comes to productivity in your favorite editor, I feel the bigger problem is learning how to use various bits of functionality in a realistic setting and learning to see when you have a time saver at your disposal. Learning to automatically recognize "when in situation X, use Y with shortcut Z" rather than simply "Z is a shortcut for Y".
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#12So, I love anything spaced repetition and am addicted to Anki, but when it comes to productivity in your favorite editor, I feel the bigger problem is learning how to use various bits of functionality in a realistic setting and learning to see when you have a time saver at your disposal. Learning to automatically recognize "when in situation X, use Y with shortcut Z" rather than simply "Z is a shortcut for Y".
I agree, and the way I've been using shortcutfoo is, when I get a new command in my fingers that I think I'll really use, I immediately stop drilling on the website, hop over to vim and actually use it a few times. That's been a good combination for me.
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#13I'm having a problem with not overriding the browser shortcuts. One of the shortcuts I'm supposed to be learning is shift-ctrl-T, but when I type that in a plugin window opens instead (in this case LastPass). And ctrl-U (soft undo in sublime text) sometimes opens view source.
It definitely does not play well with Vimperator (firefox), which is unsurprising.
Looking forward to trying this out though.
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#14I've been hoping that there was a text editor that integrated a learning aid like this at the beginning, which consciously tried to eliminate the need for "10 great keyboard shortcuts of xxx editor you didn't know about" posts on the internet
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#15Not bad, but doesn't really solve this problem. I'm fluent in emacs, but I'm slow with the drilling. The reason is that when I type the shortcut when I think about what I want to do. This test makes you associate the text you see with the shortcut that you type, which is different from associating an action that you want to do with the correct shortcut.
The other issue was that several of the shortcut key controls created unintended consequences in the browser.
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#16Interesting site. Good timing too as I am just starting to move from VIM to WebStorm. Not exactly sure how well this works though. I find that the best way to learn a new editor is just to immerse oneself in the editor and go through a week or two of editing, either with your own project or just follow a book/video.