Comments on: Instapaper Keyboard Shortcut

By: Nik

Nik — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:03:26 +0000

You can also use keyboard shortcuts to access the first ten bookmarks in your address bar, with cmd+1 through cmd+0. I keep read later at CMD+1. Yes, it takes space there, but it also makes it readily accessible in mobile Safari.

By: Steve Riggins

Steve Riggins — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:36:50 +0000

“Apparently the keyboard shortcuts will never take effect until you’ve shown the menu that they appear in at least once per Safari-launch.”

This happens in Mail, too. I’m filing a bug, as that is just silly

By: Todd Sieling

Todd Sieling — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:06:15 +0000

I put the Instapaper bookmarklet into the Bookmarks bar. Pressing command+a number in Safari triggers items in the Bookmarks bar (whether it is visible or not) in their order from left to right (so the left-most is command+1, etc). It’s a nice way to get a keyboard shortcut that might not be the most memorable off the bat, but becomes muscle memory over a bit of time.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:03:05 +0000

Thanks for confirming what was a head-scratcher for me. Several weeks/months ago I got rid of Flash in Safari (per Daring Fireball) and added a menu shortcut to the Open in Chrome command. The key command never works until I load the menu manually. I'm glad this isn't just me. I hope Apple addresses this in an update.

By: tofias

tofias — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:39:45 +0000

I did a Fastscripts shortcut for an Applescript wrapped around Readability a long time ago, actually it might have been what pushed me into needing to pay up and leave the Lite version. But I think that Instapaper deserves to proudly stay in the bookmark bar. Also Quix has really made it simple to hide a good number of lesser used bookmarklets.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:23:45 +0000

Ken: I am guessing it will work well with Keyboard Maestro as well!

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:23:07 +0000

Cool idea. I wonder if I could get this going with Keyboard Maestro. Off to play….

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:19:38 +0000

Aha! Good point, Louije. So I am relevant after all ;)

By: Louije

Louije — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:09:46 +0000

Shortcuts assigned to Safari bookmarks via the Keyboard preference pane are not available until the menu has been loaded once—that is, you need to click the Bookmarks menu once per session for the shortcuts to work. Which is unnerving. So the FastScripts solution has this going for it!

By: Henrik N

Henrik N — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:50:59 +0000

I’ve made an extension for bookmark bar keyboard shortcuts in Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/omgmmhpgegfcifjmhpenmjpignkegpal