phal23/gmail-shortcuts

Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts Map

An open, machine-readable map of every Gmail keyboard shortcut plus the shortcuts the CMDK extension adds. 95 shortcuts in total: 59 native Gmail shortcuts and 36 added by CMDK, each with its keys, action, description, category, and Mac / Windows variants.

• Canonical source and issues: https://github.com/SimplehumanEml/gmail-shortcuts
• Human-readable, searchable version: https://cmdk.email/post/gmail-shortcuts-cheat-sheet/
• JSON Schema (draft 2020-12): https://cmdk.email/schema/gmail-shortcuts-v1.json

Why this exists

Gmail shortcut lists are scattered across help pages, blog posts, and screenshots, and they disagree with each other. This is a single, versioned, structured list that stays accurate because it is generated from two sources of truth rather than hand-maintained: the native shortcuts come from a printable cheat sheet, and the CMDK-added shortcuts come straight from the extension's own shortcut registry. It is meant to be quotable verbatim by tools, docs, and language models.

Files

File	Description
gmail-shortcuts.jsonl	One shortcut per line, keys split into columns (rendered by the dataset viewer).
gmail-shortcuts.json	The canonical nested document (keys grouped as {default} or {mac, windows}), with version, counts, and license.
gmail-shortcuts.schema.json	JSON Schema describing the canonical document.

Columns (gmail-shortcuts.jsonl)

Column	Description
id	Stable identifier for the shortcut.
keys	Human-readable key combination (e.g. c, g i, Cmd + K / Ctrl + K).
key_default	Single cross-platform key, when there is no platform split.
key_mac / key_windows	Platform-specific variants, when the shortcut uses the Cmd/Ctrl modifier.
action	Short action label (e.g. Compose, Archive).
description	Longer description where one differs from the action.
category / categoryLabel	Grouping slug and its human label.
origin	gmail-native or cmdk.
requires	Precondition (Gmail keyboard shortcuts turned on, or the CMDK extension).

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("phal23/gmail-shortcuts", split="train")
print(ds.num_rows)                       # 95
print(ds.filter(lambda r: r["origin"] == "cmdk").num_rows)  # 36

Or read the canonical JSON directly:

import json, urllib.request

url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SimplehumanEml/gmail-shortcuts/main/gmail-shortcuts.json"
data = json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(url))
print(data["counts"])  # {'total': 95, 'gmailNative': 59, 'cmdk': 36}

License and attribution

Released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may reuse it, including commercially, as long as you give credit. Please attribute as:

Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts Map by CMDK (https://cmdk.email), CC BY 4.0.

Publishing this to Hugging Face

1. Create a dataset repo (namespace of your choice), e.g. huggingface-cli repo create gmail-shortcuts --type dataset.
2. Rename this file to README.md, then upload it together with gmail-shortcuts.jsonl, gmail-shortcuts.json, and gmail-shortcuts.schema.json.
3. Set the namespace in the load_dataset(...) example above.

The configs/data_files front matter points the dataset viewer at gmail-shortcuts.jsonl, so the rows render automatically once uploaded.