My Favourite Productivity Trick: A Hotkey That Reminds Me of All My Other Hotkey

[Michael]

I kept running into the same problem:
I'd make a bunch of handy automations in AlomWare Toolbox... then completely forget the hotkeys I assigned to them a week later.

It turns out that creating the automation is the easy part — remembering it is the real challenge!

So I came up with a simple little trick that's been genuinely useful:

I made myself a "Reminder Action."

All it does is pop up a small tooltip with a list of the automations I use most often.
Whenever my brain blanks, I tap one hotkey and instantly see my cheat sheet.

Here's how I set it up:

Create a new Action in Toolbox.

Add the step Alert → Show a mouse message.

In the message box, type your list of shortcuts, e.g.:

Alt+1 = Resize Window 
Ctrl+Shift+T = Paste Signature 
Win+F9 = Daily Notes 


Assign a memorable hotkey for calling it. I use Win + `.

Why I like this

It's quick, simple, and I never have to dig into the Toolbox window to remind myself what I built.

It's basically a little "reminder manual for my own computer" on demand.

[oblivion]

I do something similar, but rather than having it tied to a hotkey I have to remember, my cheat sheet is called "Show Cheat Sheet+" and it appears on the right-click menu of the Toolbox icon in the notification area. 

[Paul (Lead Developer)]

I'd make a bunch of handy automations in AlomWare Toolbox... then completely forget the hotkeys I assigned to them a week later.

Just so you know, you can filter actions by hotkey to see what you've set. Just click the Action list header and enter "/hk" as the filter type: