For the Minimalists
Sky Dolly already has a “minimal user interface” mode that shrinks its application window to the bare minimum.
But if you truly want to “go minimal”, then the new keyboard shortcuts in the latest Sky Dolly v0.17 have just been made for you!
They take effect in the flight simulator (for instance Microsoft Flight Simulator) itself, so while you are flying you can start recording by pressing CTRL + R at any time during the flight. As the record button acts as a toggle pressing CTRL + R again will stop the recording. Or you press CTRL + S which will trigger the stop action, as usual.
Likewise replay can be started with CTRL + P, you can skip to the beginning and end (CTRL + PgUp and CTRL + PgDown), or incrementally seek on the timeline (CTRL + , and CTRL + .).
The default shortcuts have been chosen such that they do not collide with existing keyboard shortcuts with the default keyboard input in MSFS. But you can change them any time in the Sky Dolly application settings, in the Flight Simulator tab just as shown above. Simply click on a shortcut field and press the desired new shortcut - that’s it.
And the best thing: you do not have to reload anything!
Because Sky Dolly will now also constantly try to auto-connect with the flight simulator (*), so those keyboard shortcuts take effect as soon as the flight simulator is launched. Or whenever you change a shortcut. That easy!
Happy flying!
(*) Fun fact: Sky Dolly will try to connect with decreasing time intervals that happen to be the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence - because why not 
That sequence is reset to 0 each time an interaction is done that requires a valid connection.