Problem:

I love annotations, but having to select a category and property each time with my mouse is painful. It’s the main reason I have stopped using them - by creating my own annotation, I can just option + drag to create a copy of an annotation that has the category or property I’m looking for, and skip a step. But this is also not ideal.

Solution:

• Let me add annotations without having to take my hands off my keyboard after I click on what I want to annotate!

Suggestions:

• Default categories and annotations based off of what I just did
• Smart suggestions for annotations or categories
• Shortcuts for assigning categories or annotations
• Slightly more complex shortcuts for initiating annotations
  (such as:
  1. Shift+t to go select the annotate cursor
  2. Press and hold shift to duplicate last annotation category, then click
  3. Press and hold option to duplicate last annotation property, then click
  4. Press and hold shift and option to duplicate both
  )
• After Shift + t, Click + hold to see category menu, then drag + release to select the category
• After annotation pops up, option + up/down arrow keys to change category, option + right/left arrow keys to change property

I’m sure y’all can think of many more! 

I use shortcuts for pretty much everything - for example, I heavily use cmd+opt+shift+r to resize sections, so I might be an edge case here when it comes to this request.

Thanks for reading!