diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 270c76d0..2ba4d3b7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ This project adheres to `Semantic Versioning <http://semver.org/>`_.
 * Added the ability to unset a request header with ``Header:``, and send an
   empty value with ``Header;``.
 * Added ``--default-scheme <URL_SCHEME>``.
+* Added ``-I`` as a shortcut for ``--ignore-stdin``.
 * Added fish shell completion (located in ``extras/httpie-completion.fish``
   in the Github repo).
 * Updated ``requests`` to 2.10.0 so that SOCKS support can be added via
diff --git a/httpie/cli.py b/httpie/cli.py
index 0b1a1805..a0ec34fb 100644
--- a/httpie/cli.py
+++ b/httpie/cli.py
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ ssl.add_argument(
 troubleshooting = parser.add_argument_group(title='Troubleshooting')
 
 troubleshooting.add_argument(
-    '--ignore-stdin',
+    '--ignore-stdin', '-I',
     action='store_true',
     default=False,
     help="""