It's funny really how we all get used to fitting around the little quirks in computers rather than finding ways of making them work for us instead. The keyboard, and keyboard shortcuts in particular, seem a good place to start.

As a writer, word counts are very important to me, if for no other reason than deciding on when to go and get another cup of coffee. As such I tend to remap the keyboard shortcut for close document in Word to recount (Ctrl/Alt+W).

Lifehacker have taken this idea one step further with AutoHotkey by usin the Caps Lock key as a minimise button. I doubt whether many of use use the Caps Lock so this seems like a good idea.