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Getting started
Everything you need for your first few minutes in TaskShelf.
First steps
- Open your workspace, or follow an invite link to join one.
- Create your first task. Press C when you are not typing in a field.
- Try the board view for a drag-and-drop look at your work.
- Press Cmd / Ctrl + K to search, jump, or create.
- Invite your team from Settings → Members as a workspace admin.
Follow a guide
All guides →Keyboard shortcuts
Use Command on Mac and Ctrl on Windows or Linux. Shortcuts depend on the current screen; plain letters keep typing normally in text fields.
Global
- Search anything, or run a command
- /orCmd / Ctrl + KorCmd / Ctrl + F
- Create task
- C
- Toggle sidebar
- [
- Toggle right panel
- ]
- Show this shortcuts sheet
- ?
Command menu
- Move highlight
- ↑or↓
- Run highlighted item
- Enter
- Back out of a submenu (when search is empty)
- Backspace
- Close
- Esc
Task list & board
- Move focus down
- ↓orJ
- Move focus up
- ↑orK
- Extend selection down
- Shift + ↓orShift + J
- Extend selection up
- Shift + ↑orShift + K
- Open focused task
- Enter
- Toggle selection of focused row
- X
- Clear selection
- Esc
- New task (presets this team/project)
- C
- Board: pick up / drop a focused card (after Tab)
- Space
Task detail & peek panel
- Close peek panel
- Esc
- Previous task
- ←orK
- Next task
- →orJ
Inbox
- Select next notification
- ↓orJ
- Select previous notification
- ↑orK
- Open selected notification
- Enter
- Toggle read / unread
- E
- Toggle unread-only filter
- U
Requests
- Move focus down the queue
- ↓orJ
- Move focus up the queue
- ↑orK
- Open focused task
- Enter
- Accept (choose a status)
- A
- Decline
- D
- Mark as duplicate
- M
- Snooze
- S
Team tasks
- Open filter menu
- F
Search
- Move highlight
- ↑or↓
- Open highlighted result
- Enter
- Clear the search box
- Esc
Comments & rich text
- Submit comment / save edit
- Cmd / Ctrl + Enter
- Open slash commands (headings, lists, code…)
- /
- Mention a teammate
- @
- Bold, italic (standard rich-text formatting)
- Cmd / Ctrl + BorCmd / Ctrl + I
Create task / project
- Submit
- Cmd / Ctrl + Enter
- Close
- Esc
Plan (calendar)
- Move down the list
- ↓orJ
- Move up the list
- ↑orK
- Open the focused task
- Enter
- Schedule it
- Drag onto the weekorS
- Unschedule it
- Drag back to the list
- New task
- C
- Day, week or month
- DorWorM
- Previous / next
- ,or.
- Jump to today
- 0
Plan: scheduling a task
- Today
- T
- Tomorrow
- M
- Next week
- W
- When the sprint ends
- E
- Or type a date: "thu", "aug 24", "next mon"
- Add a time (optional)
- Tab
- Schedule
- Enter
Plan: with the mouse
- Schedule at an exact time
- Drag onto an hour
- Schedule for a day, no time
- Drag onto the day header
- Pick a task for that slot
- Click empty space
- Change how long it takes
- Drag a block's bottom edge
- Change its time and colour
- ⋯ or right-click a block
- Schedule without opening it
- Hover a task, use its chips
- Mark it done, changing the task's status
- Tick its checkbox
- Show one project or sprint only
- The filter button, top of the list
Connecting your tools
Workspace admins can connect GitHub and Slack from Settings → Integrations. GitHub links branches and pull requests to tasks; Slack can post task activity to a chosen channel.
Figma needs no separate connection. Paste a Figma link into a task or project to embed it.
Still stuck?
Open Help in the app’s sidebar for shortcuts, what’s new, and a way to send feedback. You can also email support@taskshelf.app.