I would love to get more UI Hotkeys. These are the ones I came up with:
Taskview:
x to open the delete dialog for this task
s to open a dialog for a new task that has the current task as parent task (basically creating a subtask)
General:
? to show the hotkeys modal (clicking ? again closes it)
Strg+ to open a dialog to quickly create a new task in default list (I’m not sure which hotkey would be the best…)
Improved List Navigation:
- Currently gn goes to the list view. We could advance this by allowing for a number prefix of this to then go to this specific list.
- So 1gn goes to the first list in your namespace
- 25gn goes to the 25. List
- The same is applicable for Favorites and even for the tasks in a list (3gf goes to the 3. favorite, 5gt goes to the 5. task, …)
- But maybe start with the Lists
F4 to highlight the “add task” input field when you are in a list view
Ctrl+n to open the “add task” dialog. You could automatically add the +list_name if you are in a list view
Also,
When you are in the command dialog, I would like to be able to search by list name, to switch to that view. And having the top 5 recent searches on top would be super helpful too!
While it’s great to be able to get to it from the command menu, I just think it would be even better if it has a direct shortcut, given the fact that it’s probably the most common command/action in the application.
On F4, you are correct, the hotkey is in case it lost focus. I just picked F4 as it is the hotkey in most browser to focus on the search/address-bar.
The following list shows the Hotkeys Todoist provides, which is a very good start:
Two things that bothered me the last weeks while using Vikunja extensively:
Please allow getting out of any input field with pressing Esc
Please allow the user to add a new task from anywhere. Todoist uses Q, when you are not in a list (it then stores the task in the default inbox) or A when in a List
What do you mean by this? What I would like to see is pressing Esc while in a Input field (edit Task, new task for this List, Add label to task, etc.) and it looses focus. Currently when adding a label to a task I have to do:
press l
enter label name
press <CR> to save it
Now I’m still in the label field. I would like to get out of it by pressing Esc, but it doesn’t work So I have to use the mouse. I hate using the mouse
Did you try the command palette?
The one opened with Ctrl-K? Yes, I tried it. And while it is possible to add a new task here with:
The reason I want to lose focus from the input is that I then can use the other hotkeys again. So suppose for a task I want to add a label and move the task to my Backlog list:
l
type name of label, press <CR> (Return key, the big one on the right of your right pinkie :D)
Manually click outside of the field (this is what I would love to have <Esc> do
m
type name of list, press <CR>
So for powerusers, the ability to lose focus is quite important.
Oh, I will Don’t know when, tho.
The whole thread should serve as a collection of wanted hotkeys features. So I see what others think about it.
I was in kanban mode because I wanted all of them to be in a specific kanban bucket.
Each time I pressed enter to create the task, I had to click back into the text box to start typing the name of the next task
What would be your preferred solution here? Having a hotkey for each bucket to add a new task to it? Or not closing the input after adding a task to the bucket?
A workaround I’ve used in the past was to move the bucket where I wanted to add a bunch of tasks to the left, making it the default bucket, and then adding the tasks in the list view. Because the bucket is the default bucket, all new tasks from the list view are created in there.
Interesting workaround! Ill certainly keep that in mind for next time.
I guess not releasing the cursor would be optimal in terms of speed as its just input, enter, input, enter etc - then when you want to add more to the task, you click it which would release cursor anyway - obviously we wouldnt know until its tried, but I dont see why that wouldnt work.
Failing that, some sort of shortcut (eg cmd/ctrl+n or an F key) would still be better than constantly reaching back to the mouse
Is this something that will be implemented eventually? More hotkeys is currently the main, if not the only, barrier for me to switch from Todoist to Vikunja.
Honestly, I would probably be most satisfied if most of the hotkeys in Todoist were copied 1-to-1 in so far as they’re applicable. I use hotkeys all the time and prefer to not use the mouse when reviewing or working my system.
Hotkeys that I miss (or can’t find):
? to Show keyboard shortcuts (clicking ? again closes it)
Single key to Quick add a task (Todoist uses q)
ESC to get out of any input field (Dismiss/Cancel)
So I have to use the mouse. I hate using the mouse 