Sam Shortcuts

This is documentation, not the product

You’re reading the product docs for Sam Shortcuts — written before the product is built so the concept and details can be reviewed first. Think Stripe Docs vs. Stripe. The interactive keyboard, modifier preview, and search described here are planned features, not yet implemented. Decisions still open for review live on the Open questions page.

What it is

Sam Shortcuts is a cross-platform keyboard-shortcut almanac. Most shortcut references are static cheat sheets you scan once and forget. Sam Shortcuts is built to actually teach shortcuts and make them retrievable the moment you need one — on a real keyboard, by natural-language search, across every app and operating system you touch.

See it on a keyboard

A full-width interactive keyboard shows each app’s shortcuts where your fingers already are — not in a table you have to translate.

Preview by modifier

Hold ⌘, ⌥, ⌃, or ⇧ and the keyboard lights up with what each combo does. Modifier preview turns discovery into play.

Search like you think

Don’t remember the keys? Describe the action — “split the editor”, “go to definition”. Per-app hybrid search blends exact matching with in-browser semantic search.

Every OS, every app

Mac, Windows, and Linux layouts, switchable. Every shortcut cites its official source so you can trust it.

Start here

Introduction The vision, the problem, and what makes this different.

Features The interactive keyboard, modifier preview, and hybrid search — described in detail.

App catalog The full planned roster of apps and how they're organized.

Architecture How it's built: Astro Starlight, in-browser semantic search, static hosting.

Design The Emil Kowalski / Linear sensibility that guides every detail.

Open questions The decisions still open for you to make before the build starts.