Swift To-Do List 7Hotkeys
Learning the keyboard shortcuts can greatly increase your productivity, but it is not necessary to learn these shortcuts in order to use Swift To-Do List 7.
You are merely given the ability to learn shortcuts for the operations that you do most frequently to become more efficient.
If you are a new user, then feel free to ignore these shortcuts. You can learn them later - you will be able to easily recognize which of these can save you time then. But if you are a power user, then read on!
You can find this overview also in Swift To-Do List Help menu, labeled as Hotkey Overview.
All these shortcuts are optional
There are always multiple ways how to accomplish most of the operations. You can accomplish nearly everything using either mouse or keyboard.
Tip: Swift To-Do List is mouse-wheel aware in most numeric and date controls, so you can often use mouse-wheel to set dates or numbers. This applies especially in the Add/Edit Task Window: eg. when setting Due Date, reminder date and time, Time Estimate or Percent Done (Professional edition only) and so on.
Hotkey overviews
On this page, you will find:
- Global hotkeys
- Main window hotkeys
- Task-view hotkeys
- Tree panel hotkeys
- Notes panel hotkeys
- Reminder window hotkeys
- Add/Edit task window hotkeys
Global hotkeys
Swift To-Do List has two global hotkeys that can be configured in Options. These hotkeys are system-wide. By default, they are:
- Control + Alt + S - The global hotkey to show/hide Swift To-Do List 7
- Control + Alt + A - The global hotkey to add a new task
Main window hotkeys
Most of general shortcuts are shown upon menu items. There are also some additional shortcuts. The most useful ones are:
- Escape - Hide Swift To-Do List to notification area or minimize (you can configure this in Options)
- Control + T - Add task
- Control + H - Add multiple tasks
- Control + R - Add to-do list
- Control + L - Add sub to-do list
- Control + F1 - Switch view mode to 'Selected To-Do List'
- Control + F2 - Switch view mode to 'Selected To-Do List + Sub-Lists'
- Control + F3 - Switch view mode to 'All To-Do Lists'
- (You can combine the three above view mode hotkeys with Alt key. That will result in the same actions, but filter will be additionally turned off.)
- Control + F5 - Deactivate current filter and reset view mode
- Control + Tab - View next to-do list
- Control + Shift + Tab - View previous to-do list
- Alt + Shift + Up - View previous task
- Alt + Shift + Down - View next task
- Alt + S - Switch focus to notes area (if shown and enabled)
- Alt + A - Switch focus to task-view area
Task-view hotkeys
These hotkeys apply only when the task-view is selected. Let's begin with the keyboard hotkeys:
- Control + Enter - Add task
- Control + Alt + Enter - Add multiple tasks
- Enter or F2 - Edit task, if the task-view is empty, Add task
- Spacebar - Set selected task(s) done/undone
- Alt + Up or Alt + Down - Move task(s) up or down
- Delete - Delete task
- Control + Plus - Increase task(s) priority
- Control + Minus - Decrease task(s) priority
- Control + ] - Increase percent done by 10% (Professional edition only)
- Control + [ - Decrease percent done by 10% (Professional edition only)
- Control + C - Copy the selected task(s) to clipboard
- Control + X - Cut the selected task(s)
- Control + V - Paste tasks
- Control + A - Select all tasks
- Backspace - Go to parent to-do list (if any) of the selected to-do list
There are also some very useful mouse shortcuts:
- Alt + Click (anywhere in task-view) - Add task
- Control + Alt + Click (anywhere in task-view) - Add multiple tasks
- Double click - Edit task
- Double click on empty space below tasks - Add task
Tree panel hotkeys
Tree panel hotkeys apply only when the to-do list tree panel is focused.
- Control + Enter - Add new sub to-do list
- Control + Alt + Enter - Add new to-do list after the selected to-do list
- Enter or F2 - Edit the selected to-do list
- Alt + Up or Alt + Down - Move selected to-do list up or down
- Control + Up or Control + Down - Move selected to-do list up or down
- Control + C - Copy the selected to-do list to clipboard
- Control + X - Cut the selected to-do list
- Control + V - Paste to-do list as a sub-list
- Alt + Control + V - Paste to-do list as a root to-do list
And mouse shortcuts:
- Alt + Click on a to-do list - Add new to-do list under it
- Alt + Click in an empty spacet - Add new root to-do list
- Alt + Control + Click on a to-do listt - Add new task into it
- Doubleclick on a to-do listt - Edit to-do list
- Doubleclick on an empty space below to-do listst - Add to-do list
Notes panel hotkeys
These hotkeys work in all notes panels and also in memos. The date/time hotkeys also work in Task Name in Add/Edit task dialog and other text fields.
- Control + D - Insert date and time
- Control + G - Insert date
- Control + J - Insert separator
- Control + B - Bold
- Control + I - Italic
- Control + U - Underline
- Control + K - Strike through
- Control + N - Bullet list toggle
- Control + Shift + N - Numbered list toggle
- Control + Shift + > - Increase font size
- Control + Shift + < - Decrease font size
- Control + Shift + L - Switch bullet style
- Control + Alt + H - Highlight
- Tab or Control + Tab - Indent text. The behavior of Tab key in notes can be configured in Options.
- Control + C - Copy
- Control + X - Cut
- Control + V - Paste
- Control + Z - Undo
- Control + Y - Redo
- Control + A - Select All
- Control + F - Find/replace
- Control + Alt + R - Remove formatting from the selection.
- Control + S - Save current notes changes (applies to notes panel in the Main window only). You do not need to use this. Notes changes are saved automatically when you leave notes, but this will save them immediately and add the changes to the undo history.
Reminder window hotkeys
These hotkeys and shortcuts work in the reminder window. Reminder window is displayed when a reminder or recurrence notification is triggered. Each reminder has its own tab. Some of these hotkeys apply only when multiple reminders are shown at once.
- Control + W - Close current tab
- Control + F4 - Close current tab
- Middle mouse button click on a tab - Close tab
- Control + Tab - Next tab
- Control + Shift + Tab - Previous tab
Add/Edit task window hotkeys
These hotkeys and shortcuts work in the Add Task and Edit Task windows.
- Control + Tab - Next tab
- Control + Shift + Tab - Previous tab
- Alt + T - Go to Task tab
- Alt + R - Go to Reminder tab
- Alt + N - Go to Notes tab
- Alt + A - Go to Attachments tab
- Alt + C - Go to Recurrence tab
- Control + Enter - OK (especially useful in Notes tab)
- Control + Alt + Enter - OK and add another task (works in Add Task dialog only)
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