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Keyboard shortcuts

You can use your keyboard to quickly accomplish many tasks in Things. To find the shortcuts for common commands, look in the menus (or see the menu shortcuts below). To complete an action, press the shortcut keys indicated below.

Click here to download a convenient keyboard shortcut overview (PDF).

Action

Shortcut

Creating items

Create new to-do

Command-N

Create new to-do below selection

Press the Space bar

Create new repeating to-do

Option-Command-N

Create new project

Shift-Command-N

Quick entry window

Control-Space bar (can be changed in the General pane of Things preferences)

Edit

Open or close item for editing

Return

Commit editing and close item while editing a note

Option-Return

Shift-Return

Control-Return

Mark or unmark item as completed

Command-.

Mark or unmark item as canceled

Option-Delete

Open the tags drop down menu while editing an item's tags

Press the Down arrow

Organize

Toggle Today

Command-T

Move item to Someday

Command-Y

Schedule selected item

Command-R

File selected item under a project or area

Shift-Command-F

Log completed items

Command-L

Move item to Trash

Command-Delete

Empty Trash

Shift-Command-Delete

Navigate

Move focus to the next field or control when editing an item

Tab

ProTip: We suggest making the following adjustment in your System Preferences to make your Tab key more powerful in all applications. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts. At the bottom, you will find a section labeled "Full keyboard access". Set it to "All controls". You will now be able to tab to the Due Date field and the "Where" pop-up menu in the Quick Entry panel with your keyboard.

Navigate into project (e.g., in the Projects list)

Press the Right arrow

Navigate back to previous list

Press the Left arrow

Tags

When an item is selected, typing adds the corresponding tag. (Each tag can have a keyboard shortcut consisting of a single character. Open the Tags Window to inspect or change these shortcuts.)

Tags Shortcut Key

Filter the current list by the corresponding tag

Control-Tags Shortcut Key

Remove all tag filters

Control-Esc

Due Dates

Please note that the following shortcuts are described for US keyboards. Please download the keyboard shortcut overview (PDF) to find the corresponding keys on your keyboard layout.

Change due date of selected item -1 day

Control-,

Change due date of selected item +1 day

Control-.

Change due date of selected item -1 week

Control-<

Change due date of selected item +1 week

Control->

Schedule To-Dos

Please note that the following shortcuts are described for US keyboards. Please download the keyboard shortcut overview (PDF) to find the corresponding keys on your keyboard layout.

Change start date of selected item -1 day

Control-[

Change start date of selected item +1 day

Control-]

Change start date of selected item -1 week

Control-{

Change start date of selected item +1 week

Control-}

Reorder items

Move selected item up

Command-Up

Move selected item down

Command-Down

Move selected item to the top

Option-Command-Up

Move selected item to the bottom

Option-Command-Down