Operation AIM
Last week I needed quick access to Python's standard library documentation outside of work. Having built custom URL shortener mappings twice in corporate environments, I really missed the productivity boost from these shortcuts.
Fortunately and also unfortunately, I decided to build it for the third time. In the past, I avoided public availability because the productivity boost also requires a very short url for the shortener. Then I remembered desktop Chrome's custom site shortcuts feature. Once configured, the domain length becomes irrelevant.
You can now use https://mangoumbrella.com/go/<FULLY.QUALIFIED.SYMBOL> to jump directly to Python's standard library reference docs. Here are some examples:
- https://mangoumbrella.com/go/dict.update
- https://mangoumbrella.com/go/typing
- https://mangoumbrella.com/go/typing.Literal
- https://mangoumbrella.com/go/concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor
To set it up in desktop Chrome, add a new search engine with your preferred keyword (like go) and URL https://mangoumbrella.com/go/%s. Then just type go dict.update in the address bar to get to the docs you need.