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Show HN: Keyjump – a keyboard-first new tab for power-users

2 points| kristianmitk | 15 days ago |keyjump.app

I built Keyjump, a keyboard-first new tab page for quickly jumping between bookmarks, dashboards, and predefined site searches.

I originally made it for myself during my CS studies because I was constantly switching between tools and wanted something faster than clicking through bookmarks. I’ve used it locally for years and recently cleaned it up and made it public: https://keyjump.app/

Main characteristics:

- Keyboard-first navigation

- Custom search templates (e.g. jump directly to search results on specific sites)

- Local-first: data stored in browser local storage by default

- No account required

- Optional account for cross-device sync and persistence (when clearing browser data)

- Chrome extension available (Firefox planned); it also lets you quickly save bookmarks/search queries from other tabs and launch an overlay on any page

- Theme and layout customization

It’s intentionally simple and focused. I’d appreciate any feedback or criticism.

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Leftium|15 days ago

I've been making something similar: https://multi-launch.leftium.com

Special features:

- similar concept to Keyjump queries: the links change to search templates if the query input has a value

- it can launch multiple bookmarks/queries at once (the blue category buttons)

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The next version is based on the realization search bangs are bookmarks + search templates: https://zbang.leftium.com

- Unique feature: double-keypress is effectively keyboard shortcut that also works on mobile! (FF to toggle fullscreen, QQ to select first result...)

- Right now it's just a list of search bangs, but this list will be moved to a slash command

- Then the list will be replaced with your own bookmarks, sorted by "frecency," with favorites pinned to the top.

- Another tab will list your bookmark (search) history: a sort of "zero effort" journal. (I switched to Kagi, which lacks search history. And browser history is insufficient.)

- Another tab can contain your notes (like SimpleNote)

- I may even integrate dictation, so you don't even have to touch the keyboard (https://rift-transcription.vercel.app)

kristianmitk|15 days ago

Thanks for sharing! What made you use cookies for storing edits?

Muhammad523|11 days ago

Looks very nice! I cant wait to see the Firefox version.