Missing keyboard shortcuts

[arashbina]

I am not sure if I’m in minority but as a developer I usually use tools that minimizes my usage of mouse. I do everything with keyboard shortcuts. I find that as a core productivity tool OmniFocus seems to be missing a lot of shortcuts.

For example:

• When creating or editing a task be able to jump to “project” or “tag” instead of having to hit tab repeatedly
• Shortcuts to jump to due/deferred/start dates
• Shortcut to add +1 to day or +1 to week to due/deferred/start dates
• Jump to today

There are a bunch more that I can list here. I am also aware that tools like Keyboard Maestro can help but I just think these are basic shortcuts that should come with the application and I shouldn’t have to use another software to mimic them.

Thanks.

[hinky]

I posted something about this here:

Ugh: another reason to be jealous of Things users

I emailed Omni about the same thing. While I don’t prefer Things to OF, keyboard navigation is one area in which it clearly excels over OF. I don’t care about the aesthetic of Things, or the animations, but I would love it if OF could be used entirely without the keyboard/touch. Ken Case recently said this on twitter: “The issue in earlier versions of OmniFocus was that there was no notion of a selected row (or rows) to operate on. Now that we have a selection, the keyboard can operate on it.” O…

I doubt we’ll see this before OF4.

[arashbina]

Have been using Things. The shortcut support in Things is excellent and after being spoiled by Thing’s shortcuts it is very difficult to use OF.

As a user I don’t really care what the underlying reason was (rows or not) for not having shortcuts. I find it very odd that a core productivity app on the mac from a respected developer is missing so many shortcuts at the premium price Omni charges. If the product couldn’t have shortcuts then it means that it wasn’t ready to be shipped.

[hinky]

If the product couldn’t have shortcuts then it means that it wasn’t ready to be shipped.

That’s pretty harsh. A lot of users (myself included) are getting value out of OF3 just the way it is. I would like more keyboard shortcuts, and I agree that Things 3 is miles ahead of OF3 in this regard, but to say that it wasn’t ready to be shipped is quite a stretch.