⌨️Keyboard Shortcuts & More

Fly through your workflows

Keyboard shortcuts let you move around Ellie, edit tasks, and capture new work without reaching for the mouse.

View and customize shortcuts

Open Settings → Keyboard shortcuts, or press ? while Ellie is focused, to see the complete shortcut list.

Select a shortcut to record a new key combination. You can restore its default or turn it off at any time. Ellie warns you if the combination conflicts with another shortcut in the same scope.

Ellie keyboard shortcuts list

If you have any keyboard shortcuts you would like to see (or any we can improve on) please add a feedback item on our feedback board!

Global desktop shortcuts

The desktop app supports shortcuts that work even when Ellie is not focused:

• Show Ellie brings the main Ellie window forward.

• Open Quick Capture opens the standalone capture window above the app you are using.

Your operating system or another app may already own a particular key combination. If a shortcut does not register, choose a different combination in Settings.

Ellie's standalone Quick Capture window recognizing a natural-language date while another desktop background remains visible

Quick Capture inside Ellie

Open Quick Capture, type your task, and press Command+Enter on macOS or Ctrl+Enter on Windows or Linux. You can add details without opening the full task editor:

• Natural-language dates, such as tomorrow at 2pm

• #label

• @list

• A time estimate, such as =45m

Ellie previews the date, label, list, and duration it understood before the task is created.

Bulk edit and move tasks

On web and desktop, hold Shift while selecting tasks to open the bulk-action bar. You can complete, delete, or drag the selected tasks to another date or list together.

Bulk editing tasks

Bulk actions are not currently supported inside the Timebox.