One thing I'd love to be considered, mainly I guess for Mac and iPad (with keyboard) users is the option to have quick actions executed via a keyboard shortcut.
For example I'd love to be able to:
- Select a task and hit 't' to move it tomorrow
- Select a task and hit 'w' to move it out a week
- Select a task and hit '1, 2 or 3' to change the priority
The shortcuts should be configurable as to which keys to use.
I feel this would give a great boost in productivity. Would anyone else find this useful?
It seems there are quite a few suggestions for more keyboard shortcuts so could this be considered?
Hi @Daron_Brewood, thanks for the feedback. You can make dedicated keyboard shortcut on Mac using method described in below video.
Thanks!
Interesting, I had already tried that, but every time I look to use the keyboard shortcut I just get a beep and nothing happens. HmmI m wondering here is there is something I need to toggle to get these working as even CMD-Z doesn't work to bring back a task I've checked off in error.
Plus using the system control means you can't use a single key like 't' (unless you use a function key) once a task has been selected.
Yes, there are limits as you mentioned. For the ones showing on your screenshots, it should normally work as you select a task and run the action.
CMD-Z is something that I need to work on to make it work.
Thanks!
I wish it would work it'd be so much easier to work with keyboard at times.
Keyboard Maestro to the rescue. Nowhere near as good / flexible as native support (as I can't use a single keypress to trigger it), but at least it works. Plus a new macro has to be written for every shortcut I want to use.
I also use Keyboard Maestro a lot, however for simple keyboard shortcut jobs like this, I use a free little app called CustomShortcuts.
Sweet, I've not seen that app - I'll take a look.
It actually is (with a little 'hack') possible to create single-key controls in Goodtask, like e.g. the 'command-mode' in Vim.
By checking if the menu items 'Next list' is available I'm making sure I only activate these controls when in 'navigation' mode. It's a bit of a hack, but works great so far (I've got single-key controls for a bunch of other commands too like switching views and moving items)
Agreed, I had to resort to using KM myself to give me the missing functionality.
To add - I have all these shortcuts in a group that is only available when a window "GoodTask" (so not the "Task" input/edit window) is focused:
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@Daron_Brewood curious - have you found a way to prevent single keypresses to be captured by non-focusing apps like Alfred?
To be honest some single keypress options I wanted to use conflicted so I replaced all of them with CTRL-SHIFT-keypress.
I've solved this with a while loop to detect if another window (Alfred) is using an AXSystemDialog to receive input. It disables the GoodTask macro group as long as Alfred is visible.
Thank you @djb21au for the suggestion of CustomShortcuts. I was having a weird problem in making Quick Action shortcuts in MacOS--some just refused to work, and for whatever reason they do with this app.
BTW, I'm using Touch Portal using an iPad a master controller for my Mac. I use too many apps to remember which shortcuts are which. I'm slowly building my page for GoodTask, and if I ever get it presentable I'll share it.
Hello @Daron_Brewood and others on this thread.
I'm new to GoodTask and am broadly investigating GT-keyboard-shortcut-customizations (primarily for macOS-desktop). This thread, thus far seems to be the most meaningful of the forum.goodtaskapp.com threads I've found.
Questions:
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are there any significant updates to methods/tools/procedures discussed above?
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is there any more-structured/centralized documentatoin for customizing GT keyboard shortcuts? (yes, I've seen Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac – To Do List, Task Manager & Planner app based on Apple's Reminders and Calendars | GoodTask ... this seems to be only standard, non-customized shortcuts) eg: is there a user-editable wiki somewhere? if not, can we make one?
from what I can see thus far, keyboard-shortcut customization docs seem to all be non-official. forum.goodtaskapp.com is great, I'm not complaining about that. (on the contrary: I'm THRILLED to have discovered GoodTask, it's solving so many of my Reminders.app problems!) it's just that web forums are not the best documentation tools; they (forums) serve another purpose.
Here's a screenshot of a private Trello-card checklist I made of several keyboard-shorcut-customizing docs links I found, most of them forum posts. (Yes, Trello is not a great documentation tool either, but it's a stopgap for me to easily collect and sort weblinks/reference.) Nobody can click on the links, and the link-dereferenced titles may not be that useful... but I thought I'd at least share to, among other things, show that I've done a little homework. 
i'm finding, as a new user, GoodTask to be great, and I want to add to the goodness. 
More of my background on this topic (copied from my profile):
I'm new to GoodTask as of Feb 2025.
I'm excited about it's potential, love what I've seen thus far. Near-real-time sync with macOS/iOS/iCloud Reminders.app environment/API provides tremendous value to me. Well done!
I'm what some might call a "keyboard jockey." I want to make repetitive and most editing/updating tasks/commands mapped to the keyboard, primarily in macOS. Single-keystroke commands can be especially fun. Those familiar with vim will understand.
