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Let me choose my keyboard shortcuts.

Keyboard shortcuts are great but I don't like the ones you've chosen. For one thing, I can't use Ctrl+Right/Left to edit my text any more. (On Windows, this lets you move the cursor in a textbox to the next/previous word.)

I'd like to use the vi-like keyboard shortcuts that I'm used to: Ctrl-J/K/H/L instead of Ctrl-Down/Up/Left/Right.

Also, you ought to be able to reorder with keyboard shortcuts:
J/K to select a task to reorder
Ctrl-J/K to move it up or down.

Thanks!

5 comments, asked by on Sep 27, 2011 - 10:01

38 votes

on Jul 19, 2012 - 00:59

+1 for user customizable shortcuts - see gmail's labs for example implementation.

on Dec 05, 2012 - 08:13

+2 for this.

The ctrl+left & right arrow are native to Windows for going forward/backward a word. It took me about 5 hours to figure out why all my tasks in Todoist had wonky indenting, until I realized that the text editing shortcut I use about 15 times a minute was causing the issue.

Since I'm not willing to alter the way I've edited text for a decade, nor am I going (or have permission) to remap my Windows keyboard shortcuts on 5 computers, I'm not getting the benefit of the Todoist keyboard shortcuts.

on Jan 31, 2013 - 07:28

+1 for vi-like keyboard shortcuts

on Feb 03, 2013 - 15:42

+1 for vi shortcuts

on Feb 05, 2013 - 13:01

I love having keyboard shortcuts for a productivity app (it's supposed to save time right?) but Todoist's shortcuts aren't cutting it for me - too different from the plethora of other tools I'm already using. I'd LOVE to customize those shortcuts to match what I'm already doing.