Keyboard shortcuts

• From anywhere

  Open or close Perch

  ⌥Space

  Open or close Perch from anywhere, whatever app is in front of you.

• From anywhere

  Open into a view

  ⌃⌥1/⌃⌥2/⌃⌥3/⌃⌥4

  Open Perch straight into Today / Upcoming / All / No Date, from anywhere.

• From anywhere

  Rebind hotkeys

  Settings ▸ Shortcuts

  All five are defaults, not rules: rebind any of them, or leave one blank to switch it off.

  From anywhere

  Rebind hotkeys

  Settings ▸ Shortcuts

  All five are defaults, not rules: rebind any of them, or leave one blank to switch it off. Restore Defaults puts them back.

• Quick entry

  Search or capture

  Just type

  Search your reminders, or write a new one in plain language: “Standup every Monday at 9 !

  Quick entry

  Search or capture

  Just type

  Search your reminders, or write a new one in plain language: “Standup every Monday at 9 !! /Work”.

• Quick entry

  Create from plain language

  ↩

  Create what you typed, once Perch reads a date, repeat, list, or priority in it.

  Quick entry

  Create from plain language

  ↩

  Create what you typed, once Perch reads a date, repeat, list, or priority in it. Until then the line stays a search.

• Quick entry

  Force create

  ⌘↩

  Always create, even when the line looks like a search.

• In the list

  Move through the list

  ↓/↑

  Move through the list.

  In the list

  Move through the list

  ↓/↑

  Move through the list. Pressing ↑ past the first row returns you to typing.

• In the list

  Take rows with you

  ⇧↑/⇧↓

  Move, taking the rows you pass into the selection, so you can complete, reprioritise, or delete them together.

• In the list

  Select everything

  ⌘A

  Select every reminder in the list.

• In the list

  Jump to the ends

  ⌘↑/⌘↓

  Jump to the first or the last reminder.

  In the list

  Jump to the ends

  ⌘↑/⌘↓

  Jump to the first or the last reminder. Home and End do the same.

• In the list

  Move a screenful

  ⇞/⇟

  Move a screenful at a time, with one row of overlap so you keep your place.

• In the list

  Complete a reminder

  Space

  Complete the selected reminder.

• In the list

  Open the row menu

  ⌃↩

  The row’s whole menu: Due Date, Priority, Move To, and the rest.

• In the list

  Set priority

  ⌥⌘0–3

  Set priority directly: 0 none, 1 low, 2 medium, 3 high.

• In the list

  Undo and redo

  ⌘Z/⇧⌘Z

  Undo / redo anything: completing, rescheduling, renaming, editing, moving between lists, even deleting.

  In the list

  Undo and redo

  ⌘Z/⇧⌘Z

  Undo / redo anything: completing, rescheduling, renaming, editing, moving between lists, even deleting. A deleted reminder is put back as it was. Twenty-five steps of history, each one named in the tooltip.

• In the list

  Delete a reminder

  ⌫

  Delete the selected reminder.

• In the list

  Copy the title

  ⌘C

  Copy the selected reminder’s title.

• In the list

  Open the row’s link

  ⇧⌘O

  Open the link on the focused reminder.

  In the list

  Open the row’s link

  ⇧⌘O

  Open the link on the focused reminder. That row only, never the rest of the selection.

• In the editor

  Edit in place

  ↩or⌘E

  Edit the selected reminder in place.

• In the editor

  Move between fields

  ⇥/⇧⇥

  Move between title and notes.

• In the editor

  Save and close

  ⌘↩

  Save and close the editor from any field, notes included.

  In the editor

  Save and close

  ⌘↩

  Save and close the editor from any field, notes included. In notes, a plain ↩ starts a new line.

• Views

  Switch scope

  ⌘1/⌘2/⌘3/⌘4

  Today / Upcoming / All / No Date.

• Views

  Open the scope menu

  ⌘L

  The scope menu, your lists included.

• Views

  Show what’s done

  ⇧⌘H

  Show or hide the reminders you completed today.

• Panel

  Refresh from Reminders

  ⌘R

  Refresh from Reminders.

• Panel

  Open Apple Reminders

  ⌘O

  Open Apple Reminders.

• Panel

  Open Settings

  ⌘,

  Settings.

• Panel

  Step back

  ⎋

  One step back each press: clear the search, drop the selection, close the panel.

• Panel

  Step back in the editor

  ⎋

  Step back, reverting as it goes: each press puts the field you’re in back the way it was, and the last one closes the editor.

  Panel

  Step back in the editor

  ⎋

  Step back, reverting as it goes: each press puts the field you’re in back the way it was, and the last one closes the editor. Clicking away or dismissing the panel keeps the edit instead.

• Panel

  Close the panel

  ⌘W

  Close the panel.

• Panel

  Quit Perch

  ⌘Q

  Quit Perch.

For the habits behind these keys, quick entry, undo and scopes, see the Tips page.