weird workarounds I do: when I want to copy something but removing format I paste it on the address bar of a new tab and copy it again. When I want to spell check something where there's no spell checker, I have a dummy page with a textarea where I can paste it to use the browser's spell checker. Do you have some workarounds like that?

Oh yeah! As for pasting without format, try ctrl-shift-v

I knew there should be a way to do it, 2 observations from that 1) lack of discoverability 2) lazy of me for not searching it, it seems composing 3 "core" shortcuts forever is easier in my mind than googling once and memorizing a new one 😛

Ideally we could fully customize all keyboard shortcuts with arbitrary code, which would I think solve these problems

I was doing the paste thing as @Mariano Guerra and I learn the new way from @stevekrouse! Thank you both of you to learn me a something new. 🙂

As for "lack of discoverability", on Mac that method of pasting is listed in the Edit menu as "Paste and Match Style", accompanied by the shortcut command-shift-v. The menu bar is such a useful UI convention.

i really like the update on the menu bar that superhuman and code editors are using where you hit cmd-k and fuzzy search for a command with the list of shortcuts next to it

That's another thing Mac does, but in every app… 😆

no mac here 🙂

@alltom Yeah! Great point. I love hitting command-shift-question as a shortcut for searching the menu bar. It's like spotlight for tools within an app.

extremely glad to learn that shortcut in this thread! you’ll note it’s the only unlabeled one in the menu bar 😶

You'll find it in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, under App Shortcuts > All Applications. The Shortcuts section of System Prefs is amazing, since you can override pretty much all of the built-in keyboard shortcuts, and define your own shortcuts, both globally and on a per-app basis.