Question 1

What are keyboard shortcuts in Quire?

Accepted Answer

Keyboard shortcuts in Quire are hotkeys that let you perform common actions without reaching for the mouse or navigating menus. They span five categories: task actions like adding, completing, and deleting tasks, task modifications such as assigning members or setting priority, text formatting for descriptions and comments, main panel navigation for moving through the workspace, and detail panel shortcuts for managing task details and comments. There is also a dedicated Help category with a shortcut to reveal the full list. You can open the complete cheat sheet at any time by pressing Ctrl and F1 on Windows or Fn and F1 on Mac, or by clicking the Help icon in the top-right corner of your workspace and selecting Keyboard Shortcuts from the menu. Learning even a handful of these shortcuts, especially the essential five for adding and editing tasks, cuts down on repetitive clicking across large projects.

Question 2

What are the essential keyboard shortcuts in Quire?

Accepted Answer

The most essential Quire keyboard shortcuts for new users are the five listed in the Essential Shortcuts section of this guide. Press T to quickly add a new task to your project from any screen. Press M to instantly add a task to My Tasks from any view, without opening a separate window. Press Space to open the task detail panel for the currently selected task. Press D to enter edit mode for the task description so you can start typing right away. Press C to start typing a comment on the selected task immediately, skipping the need to click into the comment field first. These five shortcuts work together to speed up the most repeated actions in Quire: adding tasks, tracking your own work, and updating task details. New users who memorize just these five will notice a real drop in mouse clicks during everyday task management.

Question 3

What are task action shortcuts in Quire?

Accepted Answer

Task action shortcuts let you create, complete, edit, and delete tasks without touching the mouse. Press Enter to add a sibling task at the same level, or Shift and Enter to add a subtask underneath the current one. Press the asterisk key to quickly add a section. Use Cmd or Ctrl and S to turn a task into a section or back again, and Ctrl, Option or Alt, and M to turn a task into a milestone or back. Complete selected tasks with Cmd or Ctrl and slash, or with Shift and C. Delete selected tasks with Cmd and Delete on Mac or Ctrl and Backspace or Delete on Windows. Undo any of these actions with Cmd or Ctrl and Z. To edit a task name directly, press F2, or Option and Enter on Mac, or Alt and Enter on Windows. To open the context menu for the selected task, press Ctrl and Enter on Mac, or Shift and F10 on Windows. Windows keyboards with a dedicated Menu key can use that key on its own. Together these cover the full lifecycle of a task from creation to completion or removal.

Question 4

What are task modification shortcuts in Quire?

Accepted Answer

Task modification shortcuts update task properties while one or more tasks are selected, or while editing a task name. Type the hash symbol to assign a tag, the at symbol to assign the task to a member, the question mark to change status, and the angle brackets to set a date. Type the exclamation mark to set task priority. Press the caret symbol to add the selected tasks to a sublist, or the greater-than symbol to transfer a task to another project. Press Ctrl and M to assign the selected tasks to yourself. When editing a task name specifically, Tab indents the task one level deeper and Shift and Tab un-indents it. Because these shortcuts work on single tasks or multiple selected tasks at once, they make bulk updates, such as retagging or reassigning a whole batch of tasks, considerably faster than doing the same work through menus.

Question 5

What are text formatting shortcuts in Quire?

Accepted Answer

Text formatting shortcuts style content in task descriptions, documents, and comments without leaving the keyboard. Apply a heading with Cmd or Ctrl and Option or Alt combined with a number key, where the number sets the heading level. Apply bold with Cmd or Ctrl and B, italic with Cmd or Ctrl and I, and underline with Cmd or Ctrl and U. Use Cmd or Ctrl, Option or Alt, and X for strikethrough. Insert inline code with Cmd or Ctrl and E, and insert a link with Cmd or Ctrl and K. These shortcuts mirror common formatting conventions found in other writing and editing tools, so they are easy to remember. Because they work inside descriptions, documents, and comments alike, you can apply consistent formatting anywhere you write in Quire without switching to a toolbar or reaching for the mouse.

Question 6

What are the main panel navigation shortcuts in Quire?

Accepted Answer

Main panel navigation shortcuts cover moving through tasks, switching views, and managing the workspace layout. Press L to create sublists, and use the bracket key to open or close the sidebar, which only works when the sidebar is not pinned. Press S to search tasks and comments, or Cmd or Ctrl and B for Blink Search across projects and organizations. Zoom into a selected task with Z and zoom back out with A. Use the arrow keys to collapse or expand grouped tasks by level, and add Shift to collapse or expand every level at once. Switch between task views with the number keys 1 through 4, and toggle My Tasks with the equals key. Move or reorder tasks with Option or Ctrl and the arrow keys, and cut, copy, or paste selected tasks with the standard Cmd or Ctrl shortcuts. Print the current task list with Cmd or Ctrl and P.

Question 7

What are detail panel shortcuts in Quire?

Accepted Answer

Detail panel shortcuts manage task details and comments without switching to the mouse. Press Space to open or collapse the detail panel, or Shift and Space to quickly expand or collapse it. Press D to edit the task description and C to add a comment to the selected task. Type the at symbol to mention a member or the hash symbol to refer to another task within a description or comment. Use Ctrl and Q on Mac or Alt and Q on Windows to quote selected text in a comment reply. Press the up arrow while your cursor is in the comment input area to edit your last comment. Use Ctrl and P on Mac or Alt and P on Windows to make the selected task a subtask of another task. These shortcuts cover most of the actions you would otherwise perform by clicking inside the task detail panel.

Question 8

What is the difference between Quire shortcuts on Mac and Windows?

Accepted Answer

Quire keyboard shortcuts follow platform conventions: Mac uses the Command key where Windows uses Ctrl, and Mac uses Option where Windows uses Alt. For example, completing a selected task uses Cmd and slash on Mac and Ctrl and slash on Windows, while editing a task name uses Option and Enter on Mac and Alt and Enter on Windows. Turning a task into a milestone uses Ctrl, Option, and M on Mac and Ctrl, Alt, and M on Windows. Quoting text in a comment reply uses Ctrl and Q on Mac but Alt and Q on Windows, one of the few shortcuts where the modifier pattern does not simply swap Cmd for Ctrl. Opening the context menu for a selected task breaks the pattern completely, using Ctrl and Enter on Mac but Shift and F10 on Windows, plus the dedicated Menu key on Windows keyboards that have one. Aside from these exceptions, the underlying letter or symbol for each action stays the same across both platforms. You can view the complete, platform-specific shortcut list at any time by pressing F1 from anywhere in the Quire workspace.

Question 9

What is Blink Search in Quire?

Accepted Answer

Blink Search is a cross-project search feature in Quire that lets you quickly find tasks, projects, organizations, or members from anywhere in the workspace. Activate it by pressing Cmd and B on Mac or Ctrl and B on Windows, which opens a search box separate from the standard search-within-page shortcut, Cmd or Ctrl and F. Blink Search is built for jumping across large workspaces that contain multiple projects and organizations, so you do not need to manually browse the sidebar or switch projects to locate a specific task or teammate. Because it searches across your entire workspace rather than just the current project, it is the fastest way to reach something you already know the name of, whether that is a task, a project, or a person, without retracing the folder structure to find where it lives.

Action	MacOS	Windows
Quick add a task	`T`	`T`
Enter to add a task	`Enter`	`Enter`
Quick add a subtask	`Shift` + `↵`	`Shift` + `↵`
Quick add a section	`*`	`*`
Turn task to section (vice versa)	`⌘` + `S`	`Ctrl` + `S`
Turn task to milestone (vice versa)	`Ctrl` + `⌥` + `M`	`Ctrl` + `Alt` + `M`
Completed selected task(s)	`⌘` + `/` `Shift` + `C`	`Ctrl` + `/` `Shift` + `C`
Delete selected task(s)	`⌘` + `Delete`	`Ctrl` + `Backspace`/`Delete`
Undo	`⌘` + `Z`	`Ctrl` + `Z`
Edit task name	`F2` or `⌥` + `↵`	`F2` or `Alt` + `↵`
Show context menu	`Ctrl` + `↵`	`Shift` + `F10` or `Menu`

Action	MacOS	Windows
Assign tag to a task	`#`	`#`
Assign task(s) to an assignee	`@`	`@`
Status	`?`	`?`
Date	`< >`	`< >`
Set task priority	`!`	`!`
Add task(s) to sublist	`^`	`^`
Transfer task to another project	`>`	`>`
Assign selected task(s) to yourself	`Ctrl` + `M`	`Ctrl` + `M`

Action	MacOS	Windows
Indent a task	`Tab`	`Tab`
Un-indent a task	`Shift` + `Tab`	`Shift` + `Tab`

Format	MacOS	Windows
Heading	`⌘` + `⌥` + `Number key`	`Ctrl` + `Alt` + `Number key`
Bold	`⌘` + `B`	`Ctrl` + `B`
Italic	`⌘` + `I`	`Ctrl` + `I`
Underline	`⌘` + `U`	`Ctrl` + `U`
Strikethrough	`⌘` + `⌥` + `X`	`Ctrl` + `Alt` + `X`
Code	`⌘` + `E`	`Ctrl` + `E`
Link	`⌘` + `K`	`Ctrl` + `K`

Action	MacOS	Windows
Create sublists	`L`	`L`
Show/Hide breadcrumbs	`⌥` or `I`	`I`
Print task(s)	`⌘` + `P`	`Ctrl` + `P`
Move task(s) up or down	`⌥` + `↑` or `⌥` + `↓`	`Ctrl` + `↑` or `Ctrl` + `↓`
Level up or down a task	`⌥` + `←` or `⌥` + `→`	`Ctrl` + `←` or `Ctrl` + `→`
Move task(s) to the top or bottom of the current level	`⌥` + `Pg Up` or `⌥` + `Pg Dn`	`Alt` + `Pg Up` or `Alt` + `Pg Dn`
Move task(s) cross columns in board view	`⌥` + `←` or `⌥` + `→`	`Ctrl` + `←` or `Ctrl` + `→`
Cut selected task(s)	`⌘` + `X`	`Ctrl` + `X`
Copy selected task(s)	`⌘` + `C`	`Ctrl` + `C`
Paste selected task(s)	`⌘` + `V`	`Ctrl` + `V`
Multiple select	`Shift` + `↑/↓`	`Shift` + `↑/↓`
Select all the relevant subtasks	`⌘` + `E`	`Ctrl` + `E`
Refresh when changes are made in grouped/sorted mode	`R`	`R`
Search tasks and comments	`S`	`S`
Open and close the sidebar	`]`	`]`

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Essential Shortcuts

Task Actions

Task Modifications

Text Formatting Shortcuts

Main Panel Navigation

Detail Panel Shortcuts

Help Shortcuts

Frequently Asked Questions