I’ve been learning Blender on and off, and one thing I picked up early is that keyboard shortcuts are essential if you want to work fast. Memorising them is tough — most of the cheat sheets and keyboard layouts floating around aren’t up to date, so I’d usually end up searching through forum posts.

Last weekend I was messing around with Python in Blender and noticed you can access all the keyconfig data through their API. I exported it to JSON and had fun building an interactive HTML keyboard that displays every shortcut. It even updates live as you press modifier keys.

Check it out here: waldobronchart.github.io/ShortcutMapper/

Because the data is pulled straight from Blender, keeping it up to date is much easier than maintaining a hand-made cheat sheet.

Edit: This prototype eventually grew into a full release with support for over 20 applications.