keychord: hold, type, release.

Hold the super key, type two letters, let go. Your text lands in under 10 ms, wherever the cursor is: a terminal over SSH or WSL, a browser form, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, an Excalidraw board.

Under 10 ms to the first character · plain YAML you own · offline by default

Status: not on sale yet. Tested on a Mac, a Windows 11 (ARM) virtual machine and a Linux (Hyprland, Wayland) virtual machine. Not yet tested: bare-metal Windows, x86 Windows and Linux, X11.

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How it works

1. Hold super
⌘⌥ on a Mac, Ctrl+Alt on Windows and Linux.
2. Type the chord
One or two letters you chose: t, tt, gs. A small hint shows the match.
3. Release
The text is typed or pasted into the app in front, keys like Tab and Enter included.

Works where you type, and does more

Terminal · SSH · WSL

Sent as keystrokes, so it works on the remote box too.

Browser forms

{tab} between fields, {enter} to submit.

Action chords

A chord can do something, not only type: open an app, snap a window, type into another tab, through the bundled aos tool. Runs off the typing path, with no shell.

Secrets at expand time

${secret:X} comes from the built-in encrypted vault: never written in the file, never on the clipboard.

Clipboard as a path

Copied a file or a screenshot? A chord types its path instead, quoted for the shell, so a terminal or an agent CLI gets the file.

Tray and reload

A tray icon shows status, errors and the vault lock. Save the file and the chords reload.

One file you can read

Chords live in a single keychord.yml. Diff it, keep it in git, share a pack.

# keychord.yml
vars:
  me: Ada Lovelace
chords:
  - keys: t
    text: "Thanks, ${me}"
  - keys: pd            # into a terminal, host kept in the vault
    text: "ssh deploy@${secret:PROD_HOST}{enter}"
  - keys: lh            # an action chord
    run: aos window snap left

Alpha: notify me

Every feature works before you pay, and your key is checked offline: no phone-home, works on air-gapped machines. Alpha. One-time licence, price on request. Leave your email and we will write when the alpha is ready.

Honest limits

It types; it does not draw. In whiteboard apps you get text and pasted pictures, not pen strokes.
Lose your vault passphrase and your secrets are gone. We cannot recover them, by design.
Some apps (games, a few remote-desktop clients) read the keyboard at a level keychord cannot reach.
On macOS, password fields block typed input; fire a login chord from the username field.