ClickUp Quick-Start Guide

Keyboard Shortcuts

Hotkeys in ClickUp are heating up! Save time and start trying out some of the options below.

How to enable Hotkeys

• Click on your profile avatar
• Select Preferences 
• Flip the toggle for Hotkeys on 

Hotkeys

Note: Use a windows computer? Replace Cmd with Ctrl 

Dashboard Navigation

• Go back to tasks/page views L 
• Reporting D
• Notifications N - In notifications tab, space to reload notifications
• Open search S 
• Close any task or window Esc 
• Clear filters - Text and Comment Editor
• Activate the tag-user selector with the @ symbol
• Edit your most recent comment with Up Arrow from the comment editor
• ## to mention a task
• Press m while viewing a task to assign it to yourself
• Type : to quickly open and filter emojis. Press enter to select an emoji 

Jump between any Required Views in your Space!

• l for List View
• b for Board View
• x for Box View
• c for Calendar View

Shortcuts

• Create and open subtasks from Task View with Cmd + Return
• Paste images with Cmd + V
• Create task T 
• Create a new Reminder R
• Use the - (minus) key to clear filters from your current view
• Markup with backticks ` and bold text with asterisks * 
• Open a new tab from any link with Cmd + Click 
• Bulk create subtasks by pasting a list of texts
• Anchor a link in task description or comments with Cmd + K 
• Markdown shortcuts to convert to rich text formatting without leaving your keyboard.
• Hover over a task in List or Board View and quickly assign it to yourself by clicking m 
• Show/hide sidebar with q
• Move to next task ctrl + shift + left or right arrow 
• When you create a new task: Open with 1, move to tray with 2 , or copy url with 3