This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Web Buzz by Stuart Langridge. Original Post: One-character shortcuts Feed Title: as days pass by Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/kryogenix Feed Description: scratched tallies on the prison wall Latest Web Buzz Posts Latest Web Buzz Posts by Stuart Langridge Latest Posts From as days pass by

Talking to Jono and Ade in the pub, it appears that I’m not the first person to notice this. I have implicit one-character shortcuts for some websites. For example, if I want to go to forums.lugradio.org then I seem to have subconsciously trained myself to just hit “f” in the address bar of my browser, and then down-arrow, enter. I didn’t explicitly set that up, but I go there often enough that it always works. Herewith, a list of the other ones I have subconsciously trained myself to use:

a: internal server at work
b: Bloglines
c: Daniel Davies at Crooked Timber
d: internal server at work
f: LugRadio Forums
g: Gmail
k: My site
s: The Straight Dope

Obviously each letter does bring up a list of URLs, but that’s just coincidence; the ones above I’ve actually learned, Pavlovianly, to use as shortcuts.

Where do your letters go?