This video is by no means an exhaustive list of everything Vimium can do, but I can walk you through the features I use everyday that I think are a good starting point and then you can decide if you want to mix in anything else.
Features I actually use:
- J/K Arrow Keys
- F to tap on any button
- / to search for any word on the page and then double tap enter to click on that link
- If there are multiple instances of the word on the page you can tap enter once to commit the search and then use n to jump to the next instance of it.
- Shift N to go back
Be sure to check out the available commands in the settings. There are bunch of good commands in here that I don’t use, either one because I didn’t know about them and should be using them or because I already have existing muscle memory that I don’t feel like overwriting (from years of using other apps).
Things I should use
- Open current clipboard url in the current tab p
- New Tab is Shift + P
- Tab Left, Shift + J
- Tab Right, Shift + K
- Back
- Command + [
- Shift + H
- Forward
- Command + ]
- Shift + L
- Open a new tab
- Command + L, or Command + T
- o or Shift + O
Things I have muscle memory for, but are a good idea to learn if you don’t already have keyboard shortcuts memorized
- Or gi, I’m used to just hitting tab. Close Tabs
- Command + W
- or with Vimium you can use x
- Reopen the last tab
- Command + Shift + T
- or Shift + X
- yy to copy the current url to the clipboard
- I do cmd+l, cmd+c but this I should embrace this one
Excludes
Exclude R & Escape from all pages (especially my own as they are useful)
- Figma
- Look up what my excludes are currently