Okay, it’s time to start releasing all those improved quick add features that were decided upon about two weeks ago! The first of the three new features to be finished is the Quick Add shortcut. This is so that you can add words from anywhere on the site, rather than having to go to a specific page. It’s pretty simple; you press Shift-A and a draggable quick add popup box appears on the screen. It’s designed to make it easy for you to copy and paste text from the site as well as simply typing the words in. And this popup has another shortcut: Shift-Enter submits the words you’ve added, even waiting for the words to finish processing if necessary. So to summarize, you can add a word to your studies on the site by following these three quick steps:
- Press Shift-A
- Type or paste in the word
- Press Shift-Enter
And the Quick Add popup comes up asking you what list to add the word to. And once that popup gets replaced with the upcoming Quick Add bar, you won’t have to even use the mouse to go from start to finish through the whole process. Speedy!
We chose Shift-A by the way because we kind of have to reach to try and find a shortcut that no one else is using. Most every contorted combination of Ctrl and Alt and letters are taken by one browser or plugin or operating system or another. We’ll try this one and, since it doesn’t use Ctrl or Alt, it probably won’t conflict with anything. However, this means that you can’t use this shortcut if you’re typing something into the site; it’s disabled in that case. It’s hard to find a good keyboard shortcut to claim!
Now back to work on the other two: a Quick Add page and that Quick Add bar. Both are getting pretty close.