Shortcut promotion and active learning

[paulalndwhr]

Why care about shortcuts?

Shortcuts are what makes software efficient to use for long time users. Yet, they are difficult to learn for people new to the product: shortcuts could be difficult to find and sometimes, one does not even know that a shortcut exists.

How can we actively endorse adopting best practices?

Take a look at the Python editor PyCharm and the plugin Key Promoter X:
By default, PyCharm shows the corresponding shortcut when hovering over a symbol.

However, I personally rarely wait long enough before pushing the button to see the shortcut.

The plugin instead shows a little notification on the right lower corner of the screen whenever a shortcut was missed!

The notification also contains an option to change the shortcut in case the key binding is uncomfortable to reach or feels inconvenient to the user.

I believe that a similar feature implemented into MuseScore by default could greatly improve the user satisfaction. New users would learn faster ways to do things more quickly and intuitively, even long time users might benefit!