Be honest with yourself for a second. When's the last time you actually learned a keyboard shortcut — really learned it, locked it in, used it without thinking? Or do you just… Google it every time? Type out the long way? Ask ChatGPT? Wait for autocomplete to bail you out?

No judgment. We've all been there. I've been there. The tools are everywhere, the answers are one search away, and somewhere along the line most of us quietly stopped trying to internalize anything. Why memorize when you can just look it up?

That's exactly why I built MyRefCards.

The Honest Truth About How We Work Now

We're all a little dependent. On Google. On AI. On some Stack Overflow thread from 2017 that hopefully still applies. We work fast, we move between tools constantly, and we've outsourced the mental overhead of "how do I do this again?" to whatever search box is closest.

And it works — until it doesn't. Until you're in a meeting and your screen is shared and you're hunting through menus trying to find something you've done a hundred times. Until you're mid-task and the context switch to Google eats five minutes and your train of thought. Until you realize you've Googled the exact same thing fourteen times and still haven't retained it.

"Less googling. More doing."

That's not just a tagline. It's the whole point. MyRefCards exist so you can pick something up, read it, actually absorb it — and get back to work faster.

Something You Can Actually Hold

There's a reason things stick better when you read them on paper. You're not fighting notifications. You're not tempted to open another tab. It's just you and the information — organized cleanly, printed clearly, laminated so it survives the desk chaos most of us live in.

Each MyRefCards card covers the shortcuts, commands, and quick-reference essentials for a specific application or workflow. Not everything — just the stuff that actually matters day to day. The things you reach for constantly but never quite memorize. The things that, once you know them cold, make you noticeably faster at your job.

Prop it up next to your monitor. Pin it above your desk. Stick it in your notebook. Use it until you don't need it anymore — and then keep it around because there's always more to learn.

Why I Made This Instead of Just Bookmarking Another Website

Because bookmarks don't work. Neither do saved tabs, screenshot folders, or that one Notion doc you started in 2022 and never touched again. We save things digitally and then never see them again.

Physical reference cards work because they're always there. No login. No load time. No algorithm deciding what you should see first. Just the information, organized the way you actually think about it, right where you can see it.

I built MyRefCards for the person who wants to get better at the tools they already use — without another app, another course, or another hour of watching YouTube tutorials. Just a card. A little friction removed. A little more doing, a little less searching.

We're expanding the card library constantly. If there's a tool you use every day and can never quite remember all the shortcuts for — it's probably already on our list.

— The MyRefCards Team