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p/amie-chenPretzel is Mac desktop app that shows and search keyboard shortcuts based on your current app.
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Amie Chen

Pretzel - Keyboard shortcuts for the app you're currently using

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Pretzel is Mac desktop app that shows and find keyboard shortcuts based on your current app.

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Amrith
This looks great, @amiechen01 ๐Ÿ™Œ How would you differentiate Pretzel from Cheatsheet?
Amie Chen
Maker
@amrith Thanks for asking, Amrith! I was a loyal user of Cheatsheet for a while before making Pretzel. The main differences are 1. for large apps like Photoshop/Illustrator/Cinema 4D, Cheatsheet doesn't show you ALL the shortcuts. I think it only shows you the ones that it accessible through Apple's Accessibility API (guessing here). 2. Pretzel has a search which filters quickly to the shortcut you're looking for! On the other hand, I love that you can click the commands from Cheatsheet and execute it in other apps. It's definitely something I have in mind for the future of Pretzel!
Amrith
@amiechen01 that's great ๐Ÿ”ฅ
David Mann
@amrith @amiechen01 Have you updated this with these features yet?
landen

It should be noted that you can already do this with MacOS. Almost all commands with their respective keyboard shortcuts are listed in the menu bar for each app, and can be searched through using the Help tab (Command + Shift + /).

More info: https://apple.stackexchange.com/...

That said, nothing exists on Windows that can do this yet, so I'm really eager to try this product out there!

Pros:

Looks nice

Cons:

MacOS already has similar functionality

Anna Filou
I knew about the commands in the help section, didn't know about the cmd+shift+/. Thanks, you sped up my workflow SO much ๐Ÿ’Œ
Ryan Hoover
Clever. It would be awesome if this supported shortcuts for web apps like Gmail in addition to native Mac apps.
Amie Chen
Maker
@rrhoover Absolutely!
Andy Zhang
Top Product
@rrhoover Macro can actually do that! https://www.producthunt.com/post... We're trying to make discovering shortcuts on the web (instead of native) easier by making shortcuts more discoverable and crowdsourcing all of the web's shortcuts on GitHub: https://github.com/UseMacro/macr...
Rick Sheahan
Love it! Do you plan to always curate the shortcut keys or open it up to a "repo" later on? (assuming you aren't just getting the shortcuts through programs APIs or something) The latter is how dash cheatsheets and stuff mainly worked and usually they're pretty messy. I have to say, besides Firefox. XCode, Things 3, Day One, Alfred, and Bear (this is very small for the amount of apps I use!!!) your initial offering covers a bunch of what I use already.
Amie Chen
Maker
@cucumbur Yes it's open sourced! The repo is up on github and PLEASE feel free to make a pull request for the shortcuts you want to add. https://github.com/amiechen/pret... (Sorry for not making this more clear. I will add it to the FAQ) Also, thanks so much for trying it!
Rick Sheahan
@amiechen01 Thank you! I'm forking to hardcore in a different shortcut as Cmd+~ makes me unable to use most mac applications. I am also willing to address this properly in terms of sticking with the existing conventions and making it fit the interface without adding complexity, which I might do regardless, and you can reject it with total understanding from me - I have no problem making sure my fork isn't lagging behind upstream
Amie Chen
Maker
@cucumbur thanks for pointing that out! Yeah, I seem to have picked a rather inconvinent shortcut to toggle the Pretzel window :/. Please feel free to fork and do a Pull Request if you have any suggestion, otherwise I am planning to do a patch this week with couple fixes, a different shortcut and support more apps. Together we will make Pretzel better!
Rick Sheahan
@amiechen01 its impossible to avoid overlapping some shortcuts! Ive got a huge remapping with alfred and all the customization apps i use, so it wasnt actually a big deal. Look forward to using and watching/contributing shortcut files + whatever else! (P.s my phone autocorrected โ€œhardcodeโ€ to hardcore...)
Tregg
The download didn't have a .dmg extension on it. Added it manually and it works. Actually really useful. Gonna keep it in my start up programs!
Amie Chen
Maker
@treggify Thank you so much for pointing this out! Just fixed the download link. Also thanks for trying it out and please let me know if you have any suggestions :)
Alessio Fanelli
Just installed this, pretty useful as a refresher for Atom but finding the most value for it on Sketch since I don't use it as much and have never gotten around to learning the shortcuts. Thanks for putting this together!
Amie Chen
Maker
@fanahova Thanks!
Alessio Fanelli
@amiechen01 Hey Amie! Just noticed that the ~ shortcut overrides other ones that include it. For example, I use CMD+~ to switch between windows of the same app, but with Pretzel open it doesn't work and it opens the shortcuts list instead. It makes it impossible to keep Pretzel open :( Any way we could customize it?
Amie Chen
Maker
@fanahova Yes! I'm actually working on a patch which would allow users to customize shortcut to open Pretzel. https://github.com/amiechen/pret....
Alessio Fanelli
@amiechen01 Got it, where do you register the CMD+tilde shortcut to open it? I took a quick look in the code to see if I could help with a PR but didn't see it!
Amie Chen
Maker
@fanahova it's CMD + backtick(`)!
Rick Sheahan

I have a very bad short term memory *cough* (nothing to do with living in Washington state) so I find tools like this incredibly handy. And it is just that - incredibly handy.

Pros:

IMO the best way I've seen yet to present keyboard shortcuts besides the few apps that have their own cheatsheet mechanism.

Cons:

Only a couple handfuls of products are supported right now

Andy Zhang
Top Product
Really cool product! It's similar to a product I built called Macro, a Chrome extension to discover shortcuts on the web (instead of native apps) https://www.producthunt.com/post... Shortcut discovery is always a pain!
Binoy Xavier Joy
@amiechen01 Introduce Dark/ Light theme toggle, please? Not a fan of dark theme :)
Amie Chen
Maker
@binoyxj working on it!
Amie Chen
Maker
@binoyxj Just did an update which allows users to toggle Dark/Light theme. The app should notify you to install a new update, if not, feel free to download the new version here https://www.amie-chen.com/pretzel/ again. Thanks!
Binoy Xavier Joy
@amiechen01 Awesome! Just did a manual update and gotta say it's neat. But a brighter Blue (for shortcut text) wouldn't hurt :)
pretzelhands
Oh hey, something that shares a name with me and is actually useful. Never thought that would happen, but here we are! Good job on making the app, super love it for all the keyboard shortcuts I just can't remember. (i.e. anything that is not my terminal, browser, editor or Sketch ๐Ÿ˜‚)
Uday Singh
This is great. Super simple and useful for one thing and doing that one thing well.
Brett Bertola
Canโ€™t wait to give this a try. One thing I would love to see is anytime I do something the manual way pretzel tells me what keyboard shortcut I could have used. That way I can learn the keyboard shortcuts as well. Thanks!
Ahmad Awais โšก
@amiechen01 No brainer Cheatsheet replacement for me and my team. ๐Ÿ‘‹ P.S. Feel free to quote me on this. I loved it. Thank You! ๐Ÿ˜‡
Amie Chen
Maker
@mrahmadawais Thank you so much!
Henrique Valcanaia

129MB for this? Not worth it. Drop electron.

Pros:

Nice UX

Cons:

Uses Electron

Rick Sheahan
Fixed the issue that prevented macOS users from switching betweens different windows of the same app (like me having a window for each Chrome Profile). The new shortcut and download link are on my fork: Just a temporary fix cause I was bored and I liked reading Amie's organized and readable source code! https://github.com/cucumbur/pretzel Amie, if this is bothersome I'll respect whatever you want me to do - I certainly have no intent of trying to take over your product, I just started using it immediately and had to fix this lil thing before i could go on with my day :)
Amie Chen
Maker
@cucumbur Hi Rick! In case you are still interested, I just did an update on Pretzel (v0.6.0), which allows users to update their own shortcuts.
Jeff Bargmann
Amie this is awesome!! Congrats! #GoBlue ใ€ฝ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜Š
Amie Chen
Maker
@jeff_bargmann Thanks! and #GOBLUE :D
Amie Chen
Maker
Just did a somewhat big update! In addition to more shortcuts (thanks to people's PR), now you can toggle dark/light theme, as well as set your own global shortcut to invoke Pretzel! Please let me know your thoughts :)
Sam Lowry

Mac os has it

Pros:

Mac os has it

Cons:

Mac os has it

Natalie
This would be really useful for Windows especially.