Things Quick Tip: Keyboard Shortcuts for Tags

Things allows you to assign keyboard shortcuts to Tags.

- Bring up the tag manager with
⌘⌃T
- Notice the little boxes to the right? Click in one and press a key. Tada!
This adds two bindings:
With a task highlighted and press
⌃+<key>
, Things.app will toggle that tag on and off.On any view, you can press
⌃⌥+<key>
and Things.app will filter that view to that tag.
I tend to not set tons of these, because they conflict with my beloved Readline shortcuts. I do use it for three tags: Essential
, which is just that. The One Thing that I need to do that day. I also have bindings for tags I use for Focus level: $High
and $Low
.
I use the "toggle a tag" binding infrequently now. I typically handle all the tags at once in the inbox at the end of the day… and @culturedcode added the feature where you can select multiple items and press ⌘⇧+T
to tag multiple to-dos.
The ⌃⌥+<key>
filtering shortcut is still very helpful, but increasingly I lean on using x-callback-urls to build filtered views for certain kinds of tasks.
Changelog
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2022-06-08 11:31:29 -0500Rename articles
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2020-09-28 09:20:43 -0500Change repo name
I decided to change the name of my hammerspoon configuration repo to
`hammerspoon-config` to avoid confusion... it's not the actual
hammerspoon executable, it's a configuration for that executable. -
2020-06-23 14:19:02 -0500New Post: Things.app test