So I've decided rather suddenly that I'm going to attempt to achieve 100% mouselessness (yeah I made that up). With the exception of games (where required) I will try to make my everyday computing as Mouse-Free as possible. We'll see how this works out for me. All I can say is I hope my laptop has that context-menu key on the keyboard (although the laptop doesn't technically have a "mouse" I am going to try to avoid all pointing device based interaction).
Here's my arsenal so far:
Firefox
Navigating links on a page, like say search results, could be pain. But with a litle "find in page" magic (/) you type the first bit that gets the link you want selected, then keyboard it up from there.
Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts @ Mozilla
Hack Attack: Mouse-less Firefox
Windows Live Writer
Ctrl+N - New Post
Ctrl+P - Publish
Ctrl+Shift+Tab (from content section) - Go to Title section
And of course everything in the menus are Alt-accessible
Resharper
Default Keymap plust many more around the web and in blogs, gotta learn 'em all!
Anyone know how to *run* the tests in the unit test explorer? CTRL_ALT_T brings up the window. I'll have to look for it.
Visual Studio 2005
Ok...working in forms designer is going to be a real bitch on this experiment (I just realized after getting all hyped up on visions of mouse-free life). Luckily I spend very little time in forms designers, really only a couple hours max every few weeks. Any thoughts on this anyone?
As to the rest of it:
Nice page from Jeff, and another with 2003 shortcuts, and some hidden gems from Sara Ford
Google Reader
Google Reader Shortcuts and at any time in Google Reader do a Shift+? to see a popup display of the shortcuts (I wish GMail did this)
GMail
Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts
SlickRun - Of course.
Hmm...that seems to cover most of what I do every day...probably at least 80%. If I log when I pick up the mouse and why, I can build from there, and work toward the goal of 100% mouseless daily work. We shall see. If I missed anything, or if you have any tips or links, post them up!