Keyboard shortcuts

Nearly everything in XLR8 has a shortcut. The tables below come straight from the app’s action list, so they match the version this site was built from. In the app, press ? to search the same list.

Note

On a Mac, ⌘ takes the place of Ctrl and ⌥ the place of Alt. The key caps on this page switch automatically when you read it on a Mac.

How shortcuts work

• Single keys like C or S act on what is focused or selected. In a list, that is the focused row, or all selected rows if you have selected some.
• Sequences like G then I are two keys in a row: press G, release it, then press I within about 1.2 seconds.
• Context matters. A shortcut only does something where its action makes sense. E, for example, edits the description on an issue page, edits the text on a knowledge page, and removes an entry on the inbox page.
• While you type in a text field, letters stay letters. Press Esc to leave the field; the shortcuts work again.

General

Action	Shortcut
Command menu	Ctrl⌘Command K
Undo	Ctrl⌘Command Z
Redo	Ctrl⌘Command ⇧Shift Z or Ctrl⌘Command Y
Show keyboard shortcuts	?

Ctrl⌘Command K opens the command menu. Every action on this page is also there, so you can search for it by name if you forget the key.

Navigation

Action	Shortcut
Next issue	J or ↓Down arrow
Previous issue	K or ↑Up arrow
Go to: Inbox	G then I
Go to: Snoozed	G then H
Go to: Triage	G then T
Go to: All issues	G then A
Go to: Active issues	G then E
Go to: Backlog	G then B
Go to: Knowledge	G then W
Go to: Sprint	G then S
Switch team	O then T
Add team	O then N
Current team settings	O then S
Go to: Trash	G then X
Recently opened issues	O then I
Search issues	/

On an issue page, J and K step to the next and previous issue of the list you came from. In a list, Home and End jump to the first and last issue.

Issue

Action	Shortcut
New issue	C
Open issue	Enter
Preview (peek)	Space
Change status	S
Set priority	P
Labels	L
Estimate	⇧Shift E
Sprint	⇧Shift C
Project	⇧Shift P
Due date	⇧Shift D
Snooze	H
Unsnooze	⇧Shift H
Set parent	Ctrl⌘Command ⇧Shift P
Move to team	Ctrl⌘Command ⇧Shift M
Create sub-issue	Ctrl⌘Command ⇧Shift O
Copy link	Ctrl⌘Command ⇧Shift ,
Copy branch name	Ctrl⌘Command ⇧Shift .
Copy ID	Ctrl⌘Command .
Move issue up	Alt⌥Option ↑Up arrow
Move issue down	Alt⌥Option ↓Down arrow
Edit description	E
Delete	Ctrl⌘Command Backspace⌫Delete or Ctrl⌘Command Del

Peek: a short press on Space opens a floating preview of the focused issue and leaves it open; press it again to close it. Hold Space instead, and the preview closes when you let go.

Move issue up/down only works when the list is sorted manually and not grouped.

Selection

Action	Shortcut
Select	X
Extend selection down	⇧Shift ↓Down arrow or ⇧Shift J
Extend selection up	⇧Shift ↑Up arrow or ⇧Shift K
Select all	Ctrl⌘Command A

View

Action	Shortcut
Search in this view	Ctrl⌘Command F
Filter	F
Display options	⇧Shift V
Toggle board / list	Ctrl⌘Command B
Move card one column left	⇧Shift ←Left arrow
Move card one column right	⇧Shift →Right arrow
Collapse/expand group	T

On a board, ←Left arrow and →Right arrow move the focus between columns. T collapses or expands the group of the focused issue when the list is grouped.

Triage

These keys work in Triage and in the Inbox.

Action	Shortcut
Accept	1
Decline	3

1 asks for the status the issue should get after triage, or for another team to accept it into. 2 marks the issue as a duplicate and asks for the original. 3 declines it: the issue is canceled and marked as read.

Inbox

These keys work on the inbox page and in the context menu of an inbox entry. Removing an entry only takes it out of the inbox; the issue itself stays as it is.

Action	Shortcut
Remove from inbox	Backspace⌫Delete or Del or E
Mark as read	U
Mark as unread	U
Mark all as read	Alt⌥Option U
Remove read entries from inbox	⇧Shift Backspace⌫Delete or ⇧Shift Del

Knowledge

Action	Shortcut
Edit page text	E

For formatting while you write (bold, lists, links and so on), see Editing text.

Sprint planning and completion

These keys work on the sprint planning page and on the page where you complete a sprint. See Sprints.

Action	Shortcut
Move into sprint	→Right arrow
Back to backlog	←Left arrow
Switch column (backlog / sprint)	Tab or ⇧Shift Tab
Decision: next sprint	1
Decision: back to backlog	2
Decision: cancel	3
Clear decision	0 or Backspace⌫Delete
Complete sprint now	Ctrl⌘Command Enter

In the command menu and pickers

The command menu, the issue search and the pickers for status, priority, labels and so on share these keys:

Key	Effect
↓Down arrow or Tab or Ctrl⌘Command J	next entry
↑Up arrow or ⇧Shift Tab or Ctrl⌘Command P	previous entry
Enter	choose the entry
1 to 9	status picker: pick a status directly, in workflow order (only while the search field is empty)
0 to 4	priority picker: 0 No priority, 1 Urgent, 2 High, 3 Medium, 4 Low (only while the search field is empty)
Backspace⌫Delete	in the filter menu, with an empty search field: back from a field’s values to the list of fields
Esc	one level back, or close the menu

In the context menu

Right-click an issue to open its context menu. Then:

Key	Effect
↓Down arrow or ↑Up arrow	move through the entries
→Right arrow	open the submenu (status, priority, labels …)
←Left arrow	back out of the submenu
Enter	choose the entry
Esc	close the menu

In the New issue dialog

Key	Effect
Ctrl⌘Command Enter	create the issue and close the dialog
Ctrl⌘Command ⇧Shift Enter	create the issue and keep the dialog open for the next one; team, status, labels and the other properties stay
Esc	close the dialog. If you typed something, it is kept as a draft (Go to: Drafts in the command menu).

In text fields

Esc leaves a text field (title, description, comment) and keeps what you typed.

In Search in this view (Ctrl⌘Command F), Enter or ↓Down arrow goes back to the list and keeps the search; Esc closes the search and clears it.

What Escape does

Esc always closes the innermost thing first: an open menu, picker or dialog. Outside of those, each press undoes one step, in this order:

1. close the navigation drawer (on a phone)
2. close the issue shown next to the inbox (on wide screens)
3. close the peek
4. close the pull request shown next to the issue
5. leave the issue page and go back to the list
6. clear the selection
7. close Search in this view