alfred-keyknight

conquer your keyboard 👇️

An Alfred Worfklow to review the layout of your keyboard and corresponding finger positions.

• Motivation
• Setting up
• Basic Usage
• Known Issues
• Acknowledgments
• Changelog
• Feedback

Motivation ✅

• Quickly check the layout and finger positions of QWERTY or Dvorak keyboards to improve your touchtyping or learn a new keyboard layout.

Setting up ⚙️

• Alfred 5 with Powerpack license
• Python3 (howto here)

Default settings

• In Alfred, open the 'Configure Workflow' menu in alfred-keyknight preferences
  • set the keyword or hotkey to open in map mode (all keys labeled, default: qwe)
  • set the keyword or hotkey to open in learning mode (no keys labeled, default: qww)
  • set keyboard layout (QWERTY and Dvorak currently supported)
  • choose the set of symbols to indicate finger positions (default: 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣...)
  • set overall spacing
  • set left padding

Basic Usage 📖

• open in map or learning mode, then press keys to see their position on the keyboard and corresponding finger
• QuickLook (⌘-Y or ⇧) will show a diagram of the keyboard layout.

Limitations & known issues ⚠️

• May not show spacing correctly in some Alfred themes

Acknowledgments 😀

• Thanks to the Alfred forum community!
• Patrick Sy (@zeitlings for inspiration with Calendar++)
• Icon from Flaticon
• keyboard diagrams from https://onlinetyping.org/

Changelog 🧰

• 2024-10-11: version 0.1

Feedback 🧐

Feedback welcome! If you notice a bug, or have ideas for new features, please feel free to get in touch either here, or on the Alfred forum.