diff --git a/lua/config/keymaps.lua b/lua/config/keymaps.lua
index e3a8c91..a610b50 100644
--- a/lua/config/keymaps.lua
+++ b/lua/config/keymaps.lua
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ wk.add({
     desc = "Yank Line-text",
   },
   { -- Toggle Hardmode with Hints
-    "<leader>h",
+    "<leader>uH",
     rhs = function()
       require("config.rootiest").toggle_hardmode()
     end,
@@ -65,3 +65,43 @@ wk.add({
     desc = "Yank buffer contents",
   },
 })
+
+--  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ smart-splits ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+-- recommended mappings
+-- resizing splits
+-- these keymaps will also accept a range,
+-- for example `10<A-h>` will `resize_left` by `(10 * config.default_amount)`
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<A-h>", require("smart-splits").resize_left)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<A-j>", require("smart-splits").resize_down)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<A-k>", require("smart-splits").resize_up)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<A-l>", require("smart-splits").resize_right)
+-- moving between splits
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<C-S-h>", require("smart-splits").move_cursor_left)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<C-S-j>", require("smart-splits").move_cursor_down)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<C-S-k>", require("smart-splits").move_cursor_up)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<C-S-l>", require("smart-splits").move_cursor_right)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<C-\\>", require("smart-splits").move_cursor_previous)
+-- swapping buffers between windows
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader><leader>h", require("smart-splits").swap_buf_left)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader><leader>j", require("smart-splits").swap_buf_down)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader><leader>k", require("smart-splits").swap_buf_up)
+vim.keymap.set("n", "<leader><leader>l", require("smart-splits").swap_buf_right)
+
+-- resizing splits
+-- these keymaps will also accept a range,
+-- for example `10<A-h>` will `resize_left` by `(10 * config.default_amount)`
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<A-h>", require("smart-splits").resize_left)
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<A-j>", require("smart-splits").resize_down)
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<A-k>", require("smart-splits").resize_up)
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<A-l>", require("smart-splits").resize_right)
+-- moving between splits
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<C-S-h>", require("smart-splits").move_cursor_left)
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<C-S-j>", require("smart-splits").move_cursor_down)
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<C-S-k>", require("smart-splits").move_cursor_up)
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<C-S-l>", require("smart-splits").move_cursor_right)
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<C-\\>", require("smart-splits").move_cursor_previous)
+-- swapping buffers between windows
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<leader><leader>h", require("smart-splits").swap_buf_left)
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<leader><leader>j", require("smart-splits").swap_buf_down)
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<leader><leader>k", require("smart-splits").swap_buf_up)
+vim.keymap.set("t", "<leader><leader>l", require("smart-splits").swap_buf_right)