I totally agree. The lack of short cuts in the Final Cut browser is embarrasing. I’ve googled a lot on this (actually that’s how I found this post 🙂 ) but haven’t found anything yet …
I do a lot of assistant editing and running through a bin and setting in-points for syncing goes really fast. Adding metadata (scene, slate, take and logging notes) does not. It’s really annoying. 🙁
Most of the work I do is part of RAW-format workflows so I rarely use the logging window, I just drag and drop – and this workflow must be getting more and more common.