TapNoiseShortcut cheat sheet
Hold ⌘ to see the shortcuts.
Hold Command by itself for a second and a panel lists the shortcuts for the app in front of you. Let go, and it closes.
Hold ⌘ on its own for about a second, and TapNoise opens a panel over the middle of the screen. It lists the shortcuts from the front app’s menus, grouped by menu.
It reads the same menus you could open yourself. It doesn’t read windows or documents.
Press another key, click, or let go, and the panel closes. So the ⌘ shortcuts you use every day keep working as before.
Only while you hold ⌘
Press another key and it steps aside.
Grouped by menu
Shortcuts appear under the menu they belong to.
Menus only
It never reads your windows or documents.
Stays on your Mac
Nothing is sent anywhere. The one network call is the license check.
Turn it on.
Settings › Keyboard › Shortcut cheat sheet
- Click the keycap in the menu bar, then Settings, then Keyboard.
- Under Shortcut cheat sheet, turn on Hold ⌘ to see shortcuts. It’s on by default.
- If it asks, allow TapNoise to read menus. That’s Accessibility, under System Settings › Privacy & Security.
Options.
- Hold ⌘ to see shortcuts
Opens the panel while you hold ⌘ alone. Let go to close it.
Default: On
Limits.
- It needs Accessibility to read the front app’s menus. Without it, the panel doesn’t open, and Settings shows a notice.
- It reads the top-level menus and one submenu deep. Shortcuts buried any deeper won’t show.
- An app that is slow to answer its menus is skipped after half a second.
- It needs TapNoise to be unlocked.
Questions.
Does it see what’s in my documents?
No. It reads menu items only, never your windows or documents.
Will it get in the way of my shortcuts?
No. Any other key cancels the wait, so ⌘ shortcuts work as usual.
Related.
Every key, a little joy.
TapNoise is US$7.99 once, before tax, on up to 2 Macs, with every update included. No subscription. Not for you? Ask for a refund within 14 days.