I deal quite a lot with JIRA at my job, as this is a corporate tool. Often, I get questions about the content of these JIRA issues, by issue key: either orally ("hey, what about PRJ-12345 ?"), or in plain text format in email, i.e. "PRJ-12345" _without_ the hyperlink of course. That could result in going to a https://jira.domain.tld/browse/PRJ-12345 , or even https://anotherjira.domain.tld/browse/QSK-54321 (yes we ha…
Your method will be faster, but fyi, you can also put the issue key in the search and it will go directly to the issue. We typically configure search shortcuts in the browser so if you type jABC-123 it will auto expand the j to https://somejira.tld/browse/ABC-123
That's what I do too but I liked the idea of highlighting and hitting a shortcut, from anywhere.
I also configured Sourcetree to match Jira IDs and hyperlink them.