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HotkeyPilot is available soon on Superhive.

Learn the shortcuts you would actually use

Run a command from a menu or F3 search, and HotkeyPilot shows its key in the corner of the 3D Viewport. Press the key yourself, and it stays quiet.
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Blender's 3D Viewport after Join from the Object menu. In the bottom right corner a small note reads: Join: Ctrl J. Under it: Click: don't show this note again.
You join two objects from the Object menu. The note shows the key you could have pressed.

Why it helps

Cheat sheets teach keys you never use

A list of 200 shortcuts is hard to learn from. The keys worth knowing are the ones for the commands you run every day.

HotkeyPilot watches which commands you still click in menus and shows you their keys at that moment. After you have used a key three times, its note stops.

The HotkeyPilot tab in the sidebar: Show Notes ticked, Keys to Learn with Join and Cursor to Selected and their keys, No Key Yet with Origin to Geometry and Shade Smooth and an Assign Key button each, Most Used with five commands and how often each ran.

No key yet?

Give one to the commands you click most

Some commands have no key at all. When you run one of them three times, it shows under No Key Yet in the sidebar.

You click Assign Key and press the key you want. If Blender already uses that key, HotkeyPilot says which command it runs, and you pick another.

The 3D Viewport with the HotkeyPilot tab open. Assign Key is waiting for a key: the note in the corner reads Press a key for Origin to Geometry.

What you get

Small, and it stays out of the way

Your own keymap

HotkeyPilot reads the keys from your keymap, also your own changes and the industry-compatible keymap.

In every mode

HotkeyPilot reads the keymap of the mode you work in, from Object and Edit Mode to Sculpt and Pose Mode. A key that opens a menu shows as the path, such as Shift S > Cursor to Selected.

Nothing in your file

Your scenes stay as they are. The counts live in one small file on your computer, and HotkeyPilot sends nothing anywhere.

Blender 4.2 and later

Pure Python, so it runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. Autosave keeps working with HotkeyPilot on.

Available soon on Superhive

Install it, keep working as you do, and pick up the keys as you go.

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