Basics
Chart basics & shortcuts
The chart is drag-first and keyboard-fast. Move a bar to reschedule, act on one task or a whole selection at once, and jump anywhere with search or the command palette — no menus to hunt through.
Move and shape work
Drag a bar sideways to reschedule it; drag its left or right edge to change the start or end. Draw a dependency by dragging from one bar's handle to another. Anything you change can be undone with ⌘Z (redo with ⌘⇧Z), and ⌘⇧A auto-schedules — cascading dependents so an FS link's successor moves off its predecessor's end.
Act on the selection
With one task selected, ⌘D duplicates it and ⌘⌫ deletes it (with an Undo toast). Select more than one and a bulk action bar appears — set them all to a status, reassign them, recolor them, shift their dates earlier or later by a set number of days, or delete them in one go. Esc clears the selection.
Find and command
- ⌘F (or ⌘K, or / when you're not typing) opens task search — jump straight to a row by name.
- ⌘⇧P opens the command palette: type a few letters of any command (auto-schedule, toggle critical path, open settings, switch view…) or a task name to jump to it — keyboard-first, no menu-hunting.
- ⌘, opens Settings, and ? shows the full keyboard cheatsheet at any time.
“I pressed ⌘D and nothing happened.”
The selection shortcuts act on the currently-selected task, so select a row first (click it). With nothing selected they simply do nothing — that's intentional, not a broken key. They're also disabled on read-only views and on borrowed cross-project rows.
Recap
- Drag — move a bar to reschedule, its edges to resize, handle-to-bar to link.
- Selection — one task: ⌘D / ⌘⌫; several: a bulk bar (status / assignee / color / shift / delete).
- Find — ⌘F search, ⌘⇧P command palette, ⌘, settings, ? for the cheatsheet.