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Keyboard shortcuts

Everything here works from anywhere in the app, unless you are typing in a field.

is Ctrl on Windows and Linux.

K Search everything and jump to it
C New task
? Open the guide inside the app
Esc Close the sheet, menu or palette
Create the task, or send the comment
Move through the search results
Tab Indent by two spaces in the editor

Things that are not shortcuts but feel like them

Section titled “Things that are not shortcuts but feel like them”

Typing in the quick-add box. The whole task fits on one line — see quick-add syntax. This is the one that saves the most time, and it is not a keystroke, it is a habit.

Pasting a screenshot. Into a comment, a chat message or a page. It uploads and downscales without a dialog.

Typing # in any editor. Offers projects and tasks to reference — projects first, then tasks, matched on key, identifier or title.

Typing @ in any editor. Offers people.

Shift-clicking a second checkbox in a list takes the range.

Every control has a name, every interactive thing is reachable by Tab, focus rings are visible, and the landmarks are real — which means a screen reader gets the structure rather than a wall of divs.

That is checked in a real browser rather than asserted about the source, because “it has an aria-label somewhere” is a claim that has been wrong here before: the first run of that check found forty-four problems, including the checkbox in front of every task.