Merlin MannKeyboard Shortcuts.
If you use a Mac, it's valuable to revisit this page at least once a year.
I can pretty much promise there's at least one thing here you didn't know you could do.
Yes. You, too.
Want to up your basic typing game?
Learn the text navigation commands, and your life will NEVER be the same.
You'll quickly realize you’ve been mousing around like a goddamned caveman.
I have a colleague who is appallingly knowledgable about tech in general and Macs in particular, and he just learned about `Shift–Command–?` on Tuesday.
See, it's not just for getting to "Help."
Start typing, and it's also one-click access to every menu item in your current app.
Please try it right now. Hit `Shift–Command–?` and start typing.
Cesar Cavazos@hotdogsladies this is awesome! Thanks for sharing it.
I do feel like a caveman.
@cavazos It takes a while to get them in your bones, but boy, is it ever worth it.
noah@hotdogsladies this regularly elicits a “how did you do that‽” response from people.
Typing in the “Help” dropdown is one of the few things I attempt to teach tech-averse people as it allows them more naturally search for what they need.
It’s such a delight to teach them about this feature and/or shortcut. Allows everyone to feel like a “power user”.
Alan McCoy@hotdogsladies Exception: If TextExpander is running with the default “Quick Actions” global hotkey setting (`Shift-Command-/`), it hijacks `Shift-Command-?`.
Easy enough to fix by removing that TextExpander hotkey assignment.
Joe Rosensteel 🏳️🌈@hotdogsladies I knew you could do that in the menu, but I didn't know about that keyboard shortcut, that's great. Thanks
James Blanding@hotdogsladies For years I had my menubar set to auto-hide, and `Shift-Command-?` was my way to get it to appear so I could look at the clock.
For I, too, am broken inside.
Thomas N (old account) 
@hotdogsladies @joesteel FYI ⌘? also works on iPad
Champagne@hotdogsladies Brilliant.
Justin Saucier
John Siracusa@justinsaucier (Come now.)
Matt Quaiil@hotdogsladies best tip ever, but it didn't work for me until a co-worker helped me find this _deeply_ embedded setting. That I had obviously turned off in my journeys somewhere. For the future people:
System Preferences | Keyboard | Keyboard Shortcuts… | App Shortcuts | > All Applications | Show Help Menu