Tasks (markdown outliner, in development) (part 2)

What it is

This is part 2 of the Tasks (markdown outliner, in development) page. It carries the next stretch of the material on that page, moved here because a single page is capped at 40,000 characters.

Where to find it

Reach this part through Tasks (markdown outliner, in development) — it lists every part and explains where the feature lives in the product. Everything below is reached from the same place.

How it behaves

Everything below is the behaviour, detail and edge cases that belong to this stretch of the Tasks (markdown outliner, in development) page.

Keyboard: two modes (writing vs command) (continued 2)

Key	What it does
Space / Enter	Space edits this row (writing mode); Enter adds a new task below. While typing, Enter finishes editing (commits text — no new row).
Space	Edit this row (drop into writing mode); F2 does the same — the Windows "rename" alias for Space
Enter	Add a new task directly below this one (same level + project) and start typing it
Shift+Enter	Add a new task directly above this one (same level + project) and start typing it — the mirror of Enter. (While typing, Shift+Enter is a normal line break.)
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter	Submit + start the next task below — commits the current task and opens a fresh row right below it in edit mode, so you can type task after task without lifting your hands (rapid entry). Works while you're typing the row (it commits first) and when a row is just highlighted. It no longer finishes/archives (that's x / e / Delete).
c	Context — add or review the task's context attachments (i is an alias)
h	Snooze — opens the universal snooze box (the same command-palette snoozer used for sessions and the inbox): type a time ("2h", "fri 3pm", "next month") or arrow to a preset and Enter
d	Deadline — a small picker opens: press 1–5 for a preset (today · tomorrow · end of week · next week · next month), type a date ("friday", "mar 15", "in 2 weeks"), or None to clear the due date
x / e	Finish the task — marks it done and files it into Archived, in one press (undoable with Ctrl/Cmd+Z); the highlight then moves to the next task in the same project — the same rule snooze uses (next below it, else the one above, else the next project). (Cmd/Ctrl+Enter no longer finishes — it now submits + adds the next task below; see its row.)
Delete · Ctrl/Cmd+Delete	Archive the highlighted task — the same reversible, browsable archive as checking it off (the highlight advances; undo with Ctrl/Cmd+Z). Plain Delete needs no modifier. Never fires while you're typing in a row, and it's Delete only — not Backspace.
p	Priority — a quick None / Low / Medium / High picker (importance)
t	Estimate — set the task's time estimate: press 1–5 for a preset (15m / 30m / 1h / 2h / 4h), 0 to clear, or type a duration (30m, 1h 30m, 2h). The field prefills with the current estimate so t then Enter keeps it.
A	Waiting on — mark the task as waiting on someone else: a small box opens to name who or what is blocking it and (optionally) set when to be reminded to chase it in plain language (Enter marks it; an empty box still marks it "waiting"). Once waiting, the box edits that name, sets a new reminder time, or clears it. The keyboard twin of the row's ⏳ button.
w / s	Move the highlight up / down (k / j and the arrow keys do the same)
Ctrl/Cmd+↑ / ↓	Move between projects — jump the highlight to the previous / next project. In All Projects it hops between project headers (staying in that view); in a single-project view it switches the shown project. Wraps around. Mirrors the app-wide Ctrl+↑/↓ "previous / next project", but scoped to the tasks-v2 projects while you're in Tasks.
Shift+W / Shift+S	Move the task itself up / down — one-hand reorder. With multiple rows selected, the whole block shifts together within each row's sibling group (order kept); in All Projects, a top-level block at its project's edge crosses as a set into the neighboring project (appended, one undo); a nested block at its sibling-group edge cleanly stays put (nesting-at-an-edge stays single-task). For a single row at the edge of its sibling group, a nested (indented) row nests into the item beside it — move-down → first child of the item below, move-up → last child of the item above (same project only). A top-level row instead hops to the next / previous project at a project's edge in All Projects.
Shift+A / Shift+D	Move the task left / right — outdent / indent (one-hand)
Ctrl/Cmd+X / Ctrl/Cmd+V	Cut / paste the task — mark it to move, then paste it right below the highlighted task in every view (same project or across projects); pasting onto a project's heading drops it INTO that project instead (even an empty one). With multiple rows selected, Cut grabs the whole selection, so pasting into a project moves them all. Cut marks only; nothing moves until you paste, and Esc cancels. See Cut & paste a task.
V	Move to project — open a small picker and choose another project to move the task into (works in both views; rebindable; the ⋯ / right-click Move to project is the same). The picker also has a "＋ New project…" row — type a name and it creates the project, moves the task into it, and opens it (so it shows even when the current project is your only one). And a Today row at the top — Add to Today (or Remove from Today if it's already on the plate) — so you can put a task on or off today's plate from the same menu, just like filing it under a project. Today is an overlay, so this keeps the task's home project (see Today).
Alt+Shift+↑/↓ · ←/→	Reorder the task up / down · outdent / indent it (← out, → in) — the full OneNote-style outline-move scheme (←/→ are aliases for Shift+Tab / Tab). With multiple rows selected, ↑/↓ shifts the whole block within each row's sibling group (order kept); and in All Projects, when that block sits at its project's edge, the whole selection crosses into the neighboring project (appended there, one undo) — the multi-select twin of the single-row cross below. At its sibling-group edge a (single) nested row nests into the adjacent item (move-down → first child of the item below, move-up → last child of the item above; same project, depth preserved). In All Projects, a top-level row instead crosses into the neighboring project at a project's edge — including into an empty project (indent / outdent, and a child's nest, stay within the project).
F	Fold / unfold this task's sub-items — hide its subtree behind a chevron (only acts when the task has sub-items)
:	Command line — type a plain-English line and press Enter: "due friday", "high priority", "#work", "move to Errands", "snooze 2h", "done". One line can set several fields at once. (Urgency phrases are ignored on the v2 surface.)
Ctrl/Cmd+K	Insert link — open a small popover (URL + optional text) and drop a markdown [text](url) link into the task: while editing, a selected word becomes the link text (you just type the URL); on a highlighted row, the link is added to it. Empty URL does nothing; no text → the URL shows as the text. Works like the notes editor's Ctrl+K. Rebindable, and also on the row ⋯ / right-click → Insert link (the mouse + phone path).
g · b	Launch/open the task's agent · break it down with AI
Ctrl/Cmd+C	Copy the task — puts its text (raw markdown line) on the system clipboard and on an in-app clipboard so you can paste it as a duplicate into any project (Ctrl/Cmd+V / Paste here; see Cut & paste a task). The same as the ⋯ / right-click Copy. A fixed chord (not rebindable); while you're editing a task it's the normal text-copy.
Ctrl/Cmd+Z · Ctrl/Cmd+Y	Undo · Redo — step back through your recent changes with Ctrl/Cmd+Z and re-apply them with Ctrl/Cmd+Y (or Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z). Both are unlimited, real (they persist), and fixed chords; while you're editing a row's text they're the normal text undo/redo. See Archive & universal undo.
/ · Ctrl/Cmd+F	Find tasks — open the find-as-you-type bar; matches (and their parents) stay visible, everything else drops away. See Find tasks.
Ctrl/Cmd+A	Select all visible tasks — the bulk action bar appears (snooze / due / priority / move / finish the whole selection at once). While typing, it stays the normal select-all-text. See Select many & act once.
?	Cheat-sheet — every shortcut, grouped (the answer to "I forget the keys"); also opens from the keyboard-shortcuts button in the header

These command keys are rebindable. Open Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts → Tasks (the tab appears once Tasks is enabled) to remap any of the command-mode actions — snooze, deadline, priority, estimate, waiting on (A), finish, context, launch agent, break-down, command line, insert link (Ctrl/Cmd+K), the focus moves, the one-hand move keys (Shift+W/A/S/D), cut/paste (Ctrl/Cmd+X / Ctrl/Cmd+V), move to project (V), fold/unfold (F), and help. Each action keeps its aliases (focus-down is J + S, context is C + I, finish is X + E) and supports multiple bindings; press + Add then your key, the X removes one, Default restores. The ? cheat-sheet then shows your actual keys. The structural keys — Enter / Shift+Enter / Space / Esc, Tab indent, the arrows, Ctrl/Cmd+↑/↓ between projects, Ctrl/Cmd+Z undo + Ctrl/Cmd+Y redo, duplicate, and archive (Ctrl/Cmd+Delete and a bare Delete) — stay fixed (most are shared with the v1 / v3 outliners; the bare Delete→archive and Shift+Enter→add-above are v2-only additions).

Related

The overview, the other parts, and everything else worth reading next all sit on Tasks (markdown outliner, in development).