Keyboard Shortcuts The MLO team pays special attention to accelerating application usage. There are keyboard shortcuts for frequently used operations. The most important keyboard shortcuts are listed below.   Note: Not all keyboard shortcuts are listed here. Please investigate the application menu, local menus, and hints to find out the shortcut for the operation you need.   Shortcut Action or command Alt+F1 Properties pane open/close Alt+1 Toggle between Task List and Task Notes (Contexts List and Contexts Notes) Alt+2 General properties section open/close Alt+3 Timing & Reminder properties section open/close Alt+4 Effort properties section open/close Alt+5 Project properties section open/close Alt+6 Task Statistics properties section open/close F6 Collapse entire outline or To-Do lists F7 Expand entire outline or To-Do list Alt+Shift+Left Rearrange tasks in the outline Alt+Shift+Right Alt+Shift+Up Alt+Shift+Down Ctrl+Up Select next/previous visible task in Outline/To-Do without focusing this task list. The current active control will be still focused during task change by this shortcut. Useful to iterate quickly through the list of tasks and change specific task parameter. Ctrl+Down Alt+Up Select next/previous sibling in the current outline Alt+Down Ctrl+Alt+Up Select next/previous project in the current outline Ctrl+Alt+Down Ctrl+` Collapse/Expand all subtasks of the current task Shift+Ctrl+0 Set quick bookmark #1, 2…9 to a task in the outline Shift+Ctrl+1 … Shift+Ctrl+9 Ctrl+0 Go to bookmark #1, 2…9 in the outline Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+9   Ctrl+< Go to previous/next bookmark set Ctrl+> Ctrl+Alt+> Open Bookmarks dialog Alt+C Edit Context for a task Alt+L Select Context for a task from the list Alt+V Select View in the Outline or To-Do tab Alt+P Toggle complete subtasks in order Alt+Y Toggle hide in todo Alt+R Reminder Alt+J Toggle “This is a Project” Alt+X Max time required Alt+W Toggle Weekly goal Alt+A Toggle context Filter selector / To-Do list Alt+D Set Due Date for a task Ctrl+= Increase/decrease task due date by one day. Ctrl+- Ctrl+Alt= Increase/decrease task due date by one week. Ctrl+Alt- Insert Create a task (Context) Alt+Insert Create a subtask Ctrl+Del Delete a task (Context) Ctrl+R Zoom-in Ctrl+Alt+R Zoom-out Alt+Left Jump back/forward to previously selected task Alt+Right Jump forward to the next task in history

The list of the shortcuts is not complete here. Please discover other shortcuts in the application main menu, local menus, and hints to the commands. In task properties, press Alt to see underlined chars which are the shortcuts for corresponding commands.
	 
	Note: You can change the default keys or key combinations assigned to the common MLO functions or commands. For more information, see Hot Keys.

Input parsing MLO can parse -or interpret- the text you enter in some text input fields. For example you can enter “in 30 min” or “next Friday at 2pm” in date and time pickers.   In the Rapid Task Entry dialog, you can type “Call Bob about the party tomorrow at 3pm remind 10 min in advance”. The task “Call Bob about the party” will be added to the outline with corresponding parameters parsed from the rest of the input.   You can also parse the task caption entered to the Outliner if you press Alt+Enter instead of Enter.     Parsing input in date time pickers Date time pickers like Start, Due and Reminder can parse user’s input and convert it to valid date and time. Days of the week and months can be used in English and your current locale.   Here are the examples of valid input which can be converted to date and time:   tomorrow 3pm in 5 days Friday        (nearest Friday in future) next Friday        (next Friday after nearest Friday in future) Tue 11:20 Jan26 August 26th Nov 26 08 in 3 weeks 2pm in 3 weeks Fri in 30 min in 2 months today in 1h 25 min next year 3-26-2008 26-3-2008     Parsing input in Rapid Task Entry dialog and Outline   If you want MLO to parse date and time from your input you should enter your tasks using the following pattern: <What?> <When?>   Examples: Organize party with my friends 5/22 Call Jim tomorrow 4pm Prepare report for Bob 15:10 22/5     Note: Parsing is deactivated in Rapid Task Entry dialog by default. To activate it you should open this dialog, click Options button and check Parse input like… check box.   Note: Date and time is parsed according to the rules applied for date time pickers described above.   Tip: use –s or –start to put the date only in the start date field when parsing in RTE or the Outline: “Call Bob tomorrow -s”   Tip: use –d or –due to put the date only in the due date field when parsing in RTE or the Outline: “Send report -due in 5d”   Tip: If MLO fails to parse your input correctly press Ctrl+Z in the main window to return the original text to RTE change the text and try again.     Reminder If you add reserved words “remind” or “reminder”, or the abbreviation “rmd” to the phrase, the reminder will be set in MLO. The pattern: <What?> [<When?>] remind[er] I rmd [<When?>]     Examples: Organize party with my friends May 22 reminder May 21 3pm Call Jim in 3 days at 4pm remind 10 min in advance Send report to Bob in 3 days remind me tomorrow 2pm Call Jim tomorrow at 4pm remind me Send report rmd 3pm     Context If you add reserved words “context” or “@” to the phrase the contexts will be added to the task. The contexts should be separated by semicolons (;) The pattern: <What?> [<When?>] [remind[er]] [<When?>] [context | @] ; ;   Examples: Call Jim tomorrow context @office; @calls Send report in 3 days remind tomorrow 10:00 @ ProjectX   Tip: If the context starts with “@” you can skip the reserved words. In this case the first word which starts with “@” is interpreted as a context. Example: Call Jim tomorrow @office; @calls Tip: you can use the +@ switch to add contexts to the task (not replace them).  Example: “Call Bob +@ phone” or “Buy ticket +@internet”     More complex inputs You can use short and long week day names and names of months in English or in your current locale. You can also use phrases like “today”, “tomorrow”, “next Friday”, “in 3 weeks”,  “in 4 weeks Fri”, “in 3 years”, “in 2 months 1 week  4 days” etc. You can use abbreviation: d=day(s); w=week(s); m=month(s) or = minute(s); min=minute(s); h, hr, hrs = hour(s).   Examples: Send report next Tue 11am Send report in 3 weeks Monday 15:30 remind me tomorrow 10am Send report Jan 10 Send report February8 2009 context Send report in 1 month 2 weeks 1 day @ ProjectX; Reports Send report in 1 m 2 w 1 d Send report remind me in 3 hrs     Reserved words MLO tries to interpret your input and separate reserved words from the task caption. However it is not always possible. For example if you use numbers in the task caption, it may be interpreted as a date, or you may want to use reserved words “reminder”, “context” etc.  If MLO fails to correctly parse your entry, use quotation marks (") to separate you task caption from parameters that should be parsed.   Examples: “Inform about meeting with Bob tomorrow 16:00” tomorrow at 16:00 remind me 10 m “Send next reminder to Jim” tomorrow   The text inside quotation marks is not parsed and placed in the task caption.   Complete list of reserved words:

1. The week day names (short and log) in English and in your current locale (Mon, Monday, .. Sun, Sunday)
2. Names of months (short and log) in English and your current locale (Jan, January… Dec, December)
3. Numbers (0, 1..9)
4. The following words: context,@, remind, reminder, next, in, after, before, day, days, d, month, months, m, year, years, y, week, weeks, tomorrow, w, am, pm, p, h, hr, hrs, hours, hour, minute, minutes, min, mins, today, now     Additional parsing switches Additional parsing switches can be used in Rapid Task Entry or Outline parsing   Additional parsing switches: -i1 -i2 … -i5 : set Importance for the task 1=min .. 5=max -u1 -u2 … -u5 : set Urgency  for the task 1=min .. 5=max -e1 -e2 … -e5 : set Effort for the task 1=min .. 5=max -t : set time required for the task. Examples –t10; -t2h15min -tmax : set time required max for the task -l : set lead time for the task. Example: -l2d; -l3d15m -s or -start : the date will be placed in the Start field -d or -due : the date will be placed in the Due field -h : hide task in todo -o : complete subtasks in order -p : set IsProject option for the task -f : set Folder option for the task -g : set Goal option for the task -fl: set flag for the task. Example: “Buy umbrella -flGreen” -c: set font color for the task -toprj or -toprj= : move task to a project. Example: “Paint wall -toprjHome” -tofld or -tofld= : move task to a folder -to or -to= : move task to make it a subtask of specified task. +@: add contexts to the task (not replace).  Example: “Call Bob +@ phone” -star or -* : set starred to the task. Example: “Call Mike tomorrow -star”       Example. Type this in the outline and press Alt+Enter when in-place editor is active: “Call Katrin -t10 tomorrow 3p remind me 15 min in advance @calls -i1 -e4 -cr” As a result of the parsing a task with the following parameters will be added to your outline: Caption: “Call Katrin”, Due Date: tomorrow 3:00pm, Reminder 2:45pm, Context: @calls, Time Required 10min, Importance Max, Effort: More, Color: Red.     Parsing task caption in the Outliner You can benefit from input parsing in the Task Outliner as well. To parse the task caption entered in the Outliner, press Alt+Enter while you are in in-place editor mode. The task caption will be parsed according to the rules described above.   Tip: If MLO fails to parse your input press Ctrl+Z several times to return to the initial caption of the task.