Keyboard-only Q: How do I give focus to the next task on my list, after the current task disappears?

[John . Smith]

Hello

When you are in an Active view, after you have just made a task no longer Active, without using my mouse, how do you get focus on to the next task in your list?

Background
When looking at an "Active tasks" view, I am in the habit of "kicking tasks into the future" using just the keyboard. For example I might move the Start Date 3 days into the future by doing Alt/S 3 D.  This works well.

My problem is that when I do this, the current task (quite correctly) disappears from current view and this means that no task on the current view is selected.  Whereas my workflow is that I am working my way down my list of tasks, and so what I want to happen is to go to the NEXT task in my list.

Is there any way to go to the next task in my list just by using my keyboard?

Cheers

J

[MOK | MATSURU]

TRY Alt+1 (jump to General propertise panel) & then Alt+1 again.

See if it works.

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[John . Smith]

Nice try, but nope.  Repeatedly hitting Alt+1 takes you alternately to Task Notes and back to er... where!   :^(

J

On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 3:33:41 PM UTC, MOK | MATSURU wrote:

TRY Alt+1 (jump to General propertise panel) & then Alt+1 again.

See if it works.

On 7 February 2018 at 20:50, John . Smith <shi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello

When you are in an Active view, after you have just made a task no longer Active, without using my mouse, how do you get focus on to the next task in your list?

Background
When looking at an "Active tasks" view, I am in the habit of "kicking tasks into the future" using just the keyboard. For example I might move the Start Date 3 days into the future by doing Alt/S 3 D.  This works well.

My problem is that when I do this, the current task (quite correctly) disappears from current view and this means that no task on the current view is selected.  Whereas my workflow is that I am working my way down my list of tasks, and so what I want to happen is to go to the NEXT task in my list.

Is there any way to go to the next task in my list just by using my keyboard?

Cheers

J

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[grizz]

Hi,

not directly to next task but, you can use alt+1 and then arrow down.

Regards,

― grizz 

[John . Smith]

No. I instead of taking you to the task in your current viewt, it puts you to the very top task of the entire view! That does not help me work through my list from the current position.

So far the best I can do is
1. Use my mouse to carefully left-click on the task that is about to disappear.
2. Without moving the mouse, use the keyboard to change the Start Date  (e.g. Alt+S, 3 D [Enter]  )

==> The task now disappears from the view
==> The next task should come up the page into its place

3. Without moving the mouse, left-click again 

This works but it's fiddly and requires concentration. And it slows one down because anything to do with using the mouse slows one down.  Plus too much mouse use gives me RSI.

J

[MOK | MATSURU]

is your screen a touch screen? if so, touch with your finger is faster than a mouse.

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[John . Smith]

Nope, no touchscreen on my main PC, just on my laptop.

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[John . Smith]

Hello 

This issue is EXTREMELY frustrating.

If you are using an Active tasks view, is there really no good way to move to the next task on your list, after you have moved your task's Start Date?

Background:

I more or less live in an Active tasks view, and I use Start Date a LOT to move tasks off my list.

e.g. Alt+S, 3, D, Enter 

... would move a task off my Active tasks view for 3 days. But how do I get back to the next task?

Cheers

J

 

On Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 2:15:08 AM UTC, grizz wrote:

[Steve Neas]

Alt-left arrow will take you back to the previously selected task.

If you have a task selected that's going to disppear from the view,  you could hit down-arrow then up-arrow before you change the date.

After you change the date and the task disappears, Alt-left will take you back to the previous task (the one you initially down-arrowed to).

[John . Smith]

It will require a bit of concentration, but yes that works. Thank you. 

I still think that MLO should give focus to the next task on your list more easily, though.

In fact, I can't see why it doesn't just give focus to the next task on the current view automatically. 

Would that be useful to anyone else?

J