For Quicksilver, I’ve been using Command-Space. This is probably the oldest trigger I’ve had. When Spotlight came out and tried to replace it, I got rid of Spotlight, and went right back to Command-Space for Quicksilver. Then Omnifocus became a big part of my life. Actually before Omnifocus I was using Kinkless GTD, and for that, I had Command-Shift-Space, which seemed fair. All of my HUD interfaces were crowding the space bar. This seemed fine. To my knowledge, Apps (we called them programs back then), typically used Command for keyboard shortcuts. And then I became a designer and the shit hit the fan. Adobe entered my life. A quick tour of Indesign shows Adobe’s carelessness of keyboard shortcuts:
Adobe, and especially inDesign, seems to want to mangle your hands and memory for an insane amount of key chording. So I think it’s time to organize my modifier keys as much as humanly possible, and base my choices on a coherent collection that works with Application modifiers, as well as makes sense for the spirit of each modifier key. From Wiki:
In picking a modifier key strategy for all the HUDS and window resizing and calling of often used apps, I’m thinking the Control Key is the way to go. OS X guidelines tell Apps to stay off, and since I’m a ViM guy in the terminal, I don’t need to worry too much about overstepping there. So I’m thinking: