Invisible Tools: Keyboard Shortcuts

This is the first post in a series about my invisible tools: the hardware and software I use so much that I don't have to think about using them. I'm starting with one of the simplest: keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard and shortcuts I use a Durgod Fusion keyboard, but I've found that the keyboard itself doesn't matter that much, the warm-up time when switching is minimal, as long as you have a similar layout. The Durgod is a 60% keyboard, and switching to the built-in keyboard on the MacBook isn't an issue, they're very similar. The most important thing about the keyboard is to extract as much value from it as possible. I've collected a bunch of toys during the last few years. Two of them that I recently ditched were a macropad with 12 configurable keys and a volume knob that used to sit behind the keyboard. They were both incredibly useful, but whenever I happened to be working with the laptop only, I kept reaching for the macropad to take screenshots, or for the knob to adjust the…