How I Memorized ALL IntelliJ Shortcuts Effortlessly

Learn IntelliJ shortcuts effortlessly with this plugin.

Key Promoter X is an IntelliJ plugin that acts as your own personal shortcut coach.

Learn or improve your Java by watching it being coded live!

Hi, I'm John! I'm a Lead Java Software Engineer and I've been in the programming industry for more than a decade. I love sharing what I've learned over the years in a way that's understandable for all levels of Java learners.

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00:00 What is it?
00:55 How Key Promoter X Works
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[h.m.]

Nice, now they should put an animated paperclip character on those notifications...

[Frech_Dachs]

Thank you for this, I'll definitely gonna check this plugin out.

One plugin which helped me a lot to navigate around nested code blocks is Rainbow Brackets as it colors opening and closing brackets which belong together in the same color (even works for HTML-Tags).

[AR-rgen]

What a coincidence, I’ve been looking to improve my speed through these shortcuts and your video comes up! Thanks!

[mikemac]

I legit love you for all of your contributions. You have saved me so much time simply watching your videos. You do an amazing job of explaining things in a concise and easy-to-understand way. I'll definitely check out your course. Thank you!

[__Name_It__]

Yes, I was the one who printed out shortcuts on a paper 🤦‍♀️
Gradually have learned quite many combinations. But thanks for this video! Shall definitely install it. I’m sure there are so many more out there still to memorize 🦄

[trevorpaden]

Hey John! I first want to say that your videos helped be get through the first two coding classes! I can't thank you enough for that. Secondly, I was wondering if you plan on doing a little series on data structures? You have a few that touch on bits and pieces, but a succinct data structures series could help a lot of us future programmers with understanding data structures and algorithms. Of course, I will be here either way. I just felt it was worth voicing.

[gopisambasivarao]

Hey John, Appreciate your efforts and way of teaching concept very clearly.😊

[qwarlock]

Wow that is really really useful! Thanks! Always great to get hints on getting bettter!

[victor]

This plugin is also working great in Android Studio, just tried it. Thanks John!

[AnantaAkash.Podder]

Thank you for this, I'll definitely gonna check this plugin out.

[SarangSaraf]

Thank you very much for this short informative video.

[marekoko]

Great plug-in! Already installed and using for one day and...
I' ve realized that there were lots of shortcuts ive missed the whole time using IntelliJ. Thanks for this hint!

[derechtepilz]

This was really good. I really need to start using this plugin!

[sivaramans]

You made this video in the right time. I'm just on the transition phase from STS to IntelliJ. Thanks again John!!!❤

[Bury]

sir, u are a blessing for every (junior) dev there is :)

[vanbeekbr]

I love this plugin and always install it on any IntelliJ install, but on windows it's actually a LOT easier to just use the context menu button and then use the alt key bindings to get places (i.e. menu key -> r -> r to rename). I find most of these to be a lot better ergonomically too as some of the IntelliJ shortcuts are not very ergonomically great for repeated use.

Or even better, just double tap shift and start typing what you want to do.

[tissemyren]

Hey John! Could you maybe make a video where you explain the `protected` keyword?

[jan]

The tab key is my super power!

for real though it can do a lot of things

[mcxuxnt]

Hello, Sir John Thank you very much I appreciated all of your content. I hope you also make a video about spring frameworks.

[vasudharana]

Please make a video on access modifiers in java. It would be very helpful.