How to do the quickest and simplest Navigation and marking with arrows??

[Benny Karlson]

Hi,

just realize that I must have missed the absolute basic, since I cant find, the probably very simple, way to mark for example every second task in the Outline without using the mouse [CTRL+Click]. Its easy to mark everything above or under, where I stand in the outline, with [SHIFT+ArrowUp] (or ArrowDown)

BUT how to do, to only mark for example, every second row (task in the outline) when you use only keyboard, and your Arrows? Guess just quickly press ??? at the same time to mark, and then continue up/down with arrows a few rows and the mark a new task without losing the marked row I first did?

Thanks in advance (for saving me some time in cleaning the outline ;-)

/Benny

[george]

What does "mark" mean? Putting the check/tick mark ? 

Hitting SPACE button will put check/mark/mark as complete as task.

[benny_karlson]

Hi George, 

I dont know if you have a special term, but I guess you can use 'Highligt'  inspelad of mark! 

So how,  highligt row 3, 5 and 7 in my inbox to,  for instance,  move these to a different folder in my outline, with out using the mouse.... 

Skickat från min Samsung Galaxy-smartphone.

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[george]

Hi Benny,

so select 3 (or whatever number) non consecutive tasks with keyboard. 

I don't know  to do it and I would also like to know if there is a way.

I would love to get more keyboard navigation (like Shift + F10 right click) in MLO also.

Having said that, MLO is the most keyboard friendly compared to apps like Todoist, Wunderlist etc and hope it stays that way.

Autohotkey can probably come to the rescue is my guess. 

Best!

[Wallace Gilbraith]

Not sure if you can do this in the Inbox view (in MLO Windows)

What you can do in the Outline view > Inbox folder, is gather them all together, and then move them where you want, with keyboard strokes …

• Cursor to item 1
• Alt-Shift-Down arrow, to move it down to between items 2 and 3
• Shift-down arrow, to select items 1 and 3 (now 2 and 3 in your list)
• Alt-Shift-Down arrow to move these two down to between items 4 and 5
• Shift-down arrow, to select items 1 and 3 and 5 (now 3 and 4 and 5 in your list)
• Now you can move (Alt-Shift-arrow keys) this block of three items to wherever you want in your Outline view

If you move the block off the top of your screen, you can Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down to scroll the screen without moving your selection

 

You can also do this in Starred View

 

Regards

 

Wol

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[Benny Karlson]

Hi again,

 

I try to rephrase my headline, since there must be a A QUICK WAY to get rid of a cluttered MLO.

   
This is something many people probably like to use if you, like me, drowning in tasks placed in inbox or another wrong used folder, and have limited time (or not like) to spend time in organizing each task in there right folders at once!!
 

Have looked around in the forum, but not found the most simple way to clear any cluttered folder!! There MUST be a way (or to get it made by MLO team) to HELP all of us that find a way to move our unorganized tasks into Projects and Folders with a tree structure!?

 

For example here is a cluttered inbox.

 

<Inbox>

  Email Clare ref vacancy

  Project 2 Task 2

  Next Tasks

  Project 1 Task 1

  Next Task6 Project 1

  MLO

  Project 1 Task 2

  Chaos Intellect

  Backlog Project 1 Task 1

  Opera Bookmarks

  Pocket PC 

Task4  Project 1

  Backlog Project 2 Task 1

  Backlog Action

  Home Action 1

   Task5 Project 1

Email Clare ref vacancy

Project 2 Task 2

Next Tasks

Project 1 Task 3

Next Task2

Next Task3

Next Task5

MLO

Project 1 Task 2

Chaos Intellect

Backlog Project 1 Task 1

Opera BookmarksPocket PC

 

Now I want to move all tasks regarding Projekt 1 to my Folder and/or Project  named Projekt 1

 

Today I press and hold down the [Ctrl]-key and click with the mouse on each task that has anything to do with Project 1.

Then I press [M] still holding down the [Ctrl]key (equal [Ctrl+M] for Move) and point to the right Projekt 1 folder.

 

But HOW DO I DO THIS WITHOUT THE MOUSE???!! Only using keyboard  [PgUp] / [PgDn] = arrow-keys. Since its much quicker and easier to work with keyboard in this matter, when organizing tens or hundreds of tasks of tasks to new folders

 

So I guess simply to push some key-combination together with arrow-keys and the problem would be solved...

 

Best regards

/Benny

[Bengtkl]

[Stéph]

Hello Benny,

 

There's a tricky one. I can't think of any software which has a way of selecting a broken up block of items (meaning items with gaps in between) using just the keyboard. With most of them, you'd have to hold down Ctrl and use the mouse.  However, there's another way to tackle this, using just the keyboard:

1. If the items you want are in the In-box, you could use zoom (I use Ctrl+Shift+up for this, but it's a hotkey so you might have it configured differently) to make sure you don't accidentally select something which isn't in the In-box.
2. Now try Ctrl+L, which gives you the text filter. Type "Projekt 1" (without the inverted commas). Now only your Projekt 1 items are listed together.
3. Hit Alt+1 or hit Tab 5 times, to get back to highlighting an item in your list.
4. Press Ctrl+A to select all the visible items (which are all the ones which match the text you typed into your text filter).
5. Now you can hit Ctrl+M to move those items where you want, without ever having reached for your mouse.

That's about the quickest way I can think of selecting everything which matches a certain text criterium. Hope that helps. I'm sure, with practice, you could get quite quick at it.

 

Stéphane