ShortcutMoan is a customizable keyboard shortcut list add-on that lets you instantly jump to any webpage URL by pressing a keyboard key. It’s available for Chrome, Edge web browsers and Safari of macOS.
The Shortcuts
Accepts single-key input from the keyboard. You can add English keys A-Z, numeric keys 1-0, +,-,[,],<,>, numpad keys, keys such as Backspace, Home, and End, and arrow keys.
Selecting a shortcut type
In the pop-up window that appears by pressing the pop-up icon, you can select and add two types of shortcuts by hovering your mouse over the + button.
- 1) Web-surfing Shortcut
- 2) Loop Shortcut
1) Web-surfing Shortcut
Action fields
You can specify one of three actions when a shortcut is pressed. Depending on what you put in the action field, there will be an option field next to it.
‘Actions’ with options
Depending on the behavior you choose to write in the Action input field, you can select additional options.
- URL
- Anywhere: Pressing this shortcut will take you to the URL no matter where you are on the website.
- Within Domain: Works only on sites in the same domain as the entered URL.
- CSS ID(#starting character): Specifies the CSS ID of a webpage – a shortcut to scroll to that location by appending the # character to the end of the current page URL.
- Leaving the option blank: Any site will try to scroll to the #ID on the current page.
- Pasting / writing a URL : Domain restricted. It will try to scroll only to websites in that domain.
- $Action($start character): No additional options. Default Functional Actions ($Back, $Forward, $Top, $Reload)
These options allow you to specify shortcuts that are useful on more sites.
Example shortcut registration and usage tips
Shortcuts to any website
Create a shortcut that takes you directly to a web site or page you’ve registered when you press a single key on your keyboard, such as A-Z or 1-0.
For example, you can register a shortcut to go “everywhere,” as shown above, that will take you directly to each community’s Featured, Best Articles board.
Favorite shortcuts to YouTube channels
There are so many YouTubers, subscriptions, and channels on YouTube that it’s easy to create shortcuts to get to your favorite channels.
When typing the above, we left the Y and P keys as ‘everywhere’ options, so pressing Y or P will take you to YouTube Home and YouTube Podcasts respectively, even if you are on other sites.
As you can see on the right, the 1,2,3 keys only work for channels within the domain, so pressing 1,2,3 won’t work on other sites, but on the YouTube site, you can go to your registered channel from anywhere. Or, if you set the channels to the ‘Anywhere’ option, you can go directly to the channel even if you are on another site.
Use the same key site-specific with the “within domain” option
Community websites, forums often have many boards. There are many free forums, question boards, study groups, and topic-specific webpages, but you probably have a few favorite boards that you frequently visit.
So, for example, you can assign the URL of each board to the Action field of a number key, but limit the action option to Within Domain, so that even the same number key can only work on that website.
- On reddit
- Key 1 : Subreddit r/gaming
- Key 2: Subreddit r/Unexpected
- Key 3: Subreddit r/MadeMeSmile
- On facebook
- Key 1 : Photos Editing facebook group
- Key 2: Soccer Zone facebook group
- Key 3: Scuba diving facebook group
- On 4chan
- Key 1 : anime/cute
- Key 2: animal
- Key 3: sports
This way, they’re all restricted to “Within Domain”, so even if you register multiple 1 keys as shortcuts, they’ll only work when you’re on that website, so you can utilize the same key there and there. Why not register multiple launchers for channels like stocks, coins, games, news, etc. depending on your favorite websites?
2) Loop Shortcut
Loop Shortcut is a type of shortcut that allows you to use a single key repeatedly.
For example, if you put the webpage address in the URLS part like above, press 1 once to go to the first site, a second time to go to the second site, and so on. After the last entry, it will go back to the first site.
For example, you can create a shortcut that navigates by topic by placing each of your visits in keys 1, 2, and 3.
Shortcut 1: Navigate to each of your YouTube subscribed channels
Shortcut 2: Visit the best message boards on each community site
Shortcut 3: Go to each shopping mall’s discount page
Sort the list and delete items
You can sort the list in any order by dragging the hamburger icon.
You can delete the corresponding shortcut by pressing the minus button.