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The internet loves making cheat sheets for everything from programming languages to recipes and cooking ratios. These websites create their own from scratch or collect the best of the internet's advice to give you easy access to shortcuts and quick reference cards.

1. Cheatography (Web): Internet's Biggest Database of Cheat Sheets on Any Topic

The "Most Popular" page of Cheatography has everything from a Linux Command Line cheat sheet to a cheat sheet for ingredient ratios to make lotions. That's a great example of the sheer variety you'll find on one of the world's largest databases of cheat sheets.

There are six broad categories: programming, software, business and marketing, education, home and health, and games and hobbies. Each has several other sub-categories and tags, which you can use to filter the list. You can also exclude certain languages, and sort the sheets by rating, date, or popularity.

The cheat sheets can be viewed online with full formatting, or you can download them as a PDF to print for free. Most cheat sheets are formatted for a single-page A4 PDF. You can also create your own cheat sheets on Cheatography and submit it for others to use. And the site has a robust community forum to ask for help or even request others to make a cheat sheet for you.

2. QuickRef.Me (Web): User-Submitted Cheat Sheets With Powerful Search

QuickRef.Me has swiftly become popular among developers, programmers, and the open source community as a go-to resource when looking for shortcuts, quick references, or cheat sheets. Not only is it well sorted to browse, but also includes a powerful search console to quickly find what you're looking for.

As you might expect, the site's focus is on programming, with code snippets and quick references for almost any language or application you might want. The main categories are Programming, Linux Command, Python, Database, Keyboard Shortcuts, and other. You can click any to find different shortcuts and snippets, all of which can be copy-pasted easily. QuickRef.Me and even includes a cheat sheet to learn to write effective ChatGPT prompts.

Several online users praised QuickRef.Me's search engine. Pressing Ctrl+K brings up a search console with two panes, where the left shows multiple results while the right shows a preview of the result page before you click it. Users have noted it's saving clicks and a faster way to get to the desired result.

3. HTML CheatSheet (Web): Essential Shortcuts and Generators for Web Developers

Web developers know how tedious it can be to write HTML, CSS, or Javascript from scratch, and so most have a few shortcuts ready for oft-repeated tasks. HTML CheatSheet is an online single-page resource for all those quick reference cards that you can use to copy-paste or generate code. And you'll get similar resources on sister sites CSS CheatSheet and JS CheatSheet. Here's what you'll find in each:

• HTML CheatSheet includes a color picker, characters, tags, structures, attributes, filler text, .htaccess, Robots.txt, head tags, open graph, and HTML5 page structure. And there are generators for iframe, tables, links, images, and lists.
• CSS CheatSheet includes basics, selectors, properties, color picker, reset, media queries, pixel-em calculator, and generators for CSS background, box shadow, CSS button, text shadow, font style, CSS transform, CSS border and outline, and border radius.
• JS CheatSheet includes basics, loops, if-else statements, variables, data types, strings, events, numbers and math, dates, arrays, global functions, regular expressions, errors, JSON, and promises.

All three sites are completely free to use, and put everything on a single page. You can also quickly toggle between them.

4. Shortcuts.Design (Web): Easily Search for Any Design App Shortcut

If you're in any design-related field, learning app shortcuts for your most-used design software is an essential professional skill. It's hard to remember all of them, so Shortcuts.Design is trying to make it easier with a centralized database of keyboard shortcuts for leading design apps.

Currently, the catalog includes several Adobe software (Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, XD), Affinity Photo, After Effects, Figjam, Figma, Framer, Handoff, InVision and InVision Studio, Miro, Overflow, Principle, Proton.io, Sip, Sketch, and Zeplin. Click the program you want, and then search through the extensive database for the task you want to do, and you'll get instantly-updating results for the shortcuts. You can toggle between Windows or macOS too.

5. Color Hunt (Web): Color Scheme Templates for Any Theme

A cheat sheet should be as easy to use as possible, right? That's what Color Hunt gets right above any other color palette template site (and yes, there are many of them). You don't have to register or click a million things to get started.

You'll see the newest, most popular, or random color palettes on the main screen. Click one, and you'll get the Hex code for each of the four colors. You can download the palette as an image, or add it to your collection. In the left sidebar, you can find color schemes grouped by mood-based tags like warm, retro, winter, spring, space, rainbow, wedding, etc.

6. OverAPI (Web): Collecting the Web's Best Geeky Cheat Sheets in One Place

The internet is full of tech experts sharing cheat sheets for programming languages, software and apps, gadgets and technology, and even other related subjects. Heck, we've generated several top quality cheat sheets here at MakeUseOf. OverAPI is trying to bring the best such geek-interest cheat sheets in one place.

The topics are arranged alphabetically on the homepage for you to browse. Clicking any topic takes you to a page with all the fantastic cheat sheets available for it. Some of these date back to the early 2000s, but hey, if it's quality material, it deserves to be there.

Create Your Own DIY Cheat Sheets

If you didn't find the cheat sheet you wanted on one of these reference databases, there's a good chance it doesn't exist on the internet. Especially when it comes to tech-related stuff, these sites cover everything. But in case you do have a missing need, you can always fill it by creating your own cheat sheet.

Cribr is a fantastic and free online cheat sheet creator and editor. The app works a bit like Microsoft Word but makes it easy to add boxes and design the cheat sheet as you edit. In the top-right corner, you'll see a live preview of what your printed single sheet will look like, making it easier to adjust on-the-fly.

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