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  Customizable 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