Keyboard

Every shortcut in DayMap

The menu bar shows you most of these already. This page is for the ones it can't — the keys that work on the board and the calendar, where there is no menu to read them off.

Start here if you start anywhere. Select a task, then use the arrow keys to move, Space to tick it off, and Tab to make it a subtask of the one above. Those four do most of the work, and none of them appear in a menu.

On the board

With a task selected. Click one to select it; the keys below then act on it until you click somewhere else.

↑ ↓ Move the selection up or down
Return Open the taskThe same as double-clicking it.
Space Complete, or bring it back
Tab Make it a subtask of the task above
⇧Tab Move it back out of being a subtask
Delete Delete the task
⌘C Copy the task, with its subtasks
⌘X Cut the task, with its subtasks
⌘V PastePasting plain text makes a task per line. Copying a task out of DayMap gives you its title, so it can go into any other app.

On the calendar

With a scheduled block selected, for the times dragging something a few minutes is more precision than a trackpad wants to give.

⌥↑ / ⌥↓ Move the block earlier or later
Delete Take it off the calendarThe task itself is kept — it goes back to its project, undated. On one day of a repeating task, only that day is cleared.

Making things

⌘N New taskIn whichever project you last worked in.
⇧⌘N New project
⌥⌘N Quick Add to Inbox
⇧⌘D Voice capture

The selected task

⌘I Open details
⌘Delete Delete task
⌃⌘→ Make subtaskTab does the same thing on the board.
⌃⌘← Move out of subtask

Getting somewhere else

⇧⌘F Focus
⇧⌘M WaypointProMark where you got to. Only if you have the end-of-day page switched on.
⇧⌘T Bring overdue to todayEverything you promised an earlier day, moved onto this one.
⌘, Settings

The calendar

⌘T Today
⌘[ Previous week or month
⌘] Next week or month
⌘1 Show the week
⌘2 Show the month

What the board shows

⇧⌘E Collapse or expand this project
⌥⌘← Collapse every project
⌥⌘→ Expand every project
⇧⌘C Show or hide completed tasks
⇧⌘K Show or hide calendar events

AreasPro

Command-Tab can't be used for this — macOS takes that key for the app switcher before any app is offered it.

⌃Tab Next area
⌃⇧Tab Previous area
⌘-click Add an area to what's showingIn the Area menu, rather than swapping to it.

Printing

⌘P Print the day you're looking at
⇧⌘P Print the week
⌥⌘P Print the project you're working in

From anywhere on the Mac

⌃⌥⌘I Quick Add to InboxWorks while you're in another app, and while DayMap is closed. Change it or switch it off in Settings.

In any panel or sheet

Return The blue button — Create, Add, Done
Esc Close it without keeping anything

iPad, with a keyboard attached

There is no menu bar to read these off, so this is the whole list.

⌘N New task
⇧⌘N New project
↑ ↓ Return Space Tab All of the board keys aboveSelect a task first, the same as on the Mac.

iPhone and Apple Watch aren't listed because neither takes a keyboard in a way that would make a shortcut worth learning. Everything here is on the Mac unless it says otherwise.

This page prints. If you'd rather have it on paper beside the keyboard for the first week, that's what it's for.

Something here not matching what the app does? Tell me and I'll fix whichever one is wrong.