Calendar Navigation

In 0.7alpha2:

• Navigate event lozenges: Up, Down, Right, Left
• Next/Previous (Week or Day): Cmd/Ctrl - Right, Cmd/Ctrl - Left

For the Mac

We'll use these shortcuts in 0.7alpha2:

• Go to Date: Cmd - Shift - T
• Go to Today: Cmd - T

• Day view: Cmd - 1
• Week view: Cmd - 2

When we have a month view:

• Month view: Cmd - 3

For Outlook

In 0.7alpha2, we'll just use the iCal shortcuts, but for reference:

• Go to Date: Ctrl - G
• Go to Today: Alt - O

• Day view: Alt - Y
• Week view: Alt - W
• Month view: Alt - M

Mini-cal navigation?

There will be no minical navigation in 0.7alpha2

• Add month: +
• Remove month: -
• Next/Previous (Month): Cmd/Ctrl - Right, Cmd/Ctrl - Left
• Move selection by Week: Up, Down
• Move selection by Day: Right, Left

Creating new Items/Collections (Proposals)

• Cmd/Ctrl - N: Create new item of whatever Kind matches the currently selected App area
• Cmd/Ctrl - C: Create new collection
• Cmd/Ctrl - Shift N: New Note
• Cmd/Ctrl - Shift M: New Message
• Cmd/Ctrl - Shift T: New Task
• Cmd/Ctrl - Shift E: New Event
• Cmd/Ctrl - Shift MTE: Stamped item?

Application (Proposals)

• Quit: Cmd - Q / Alt-F4 / ? for Linux
• Close Window: Cmd/Ctrl - W
• Sync All: Cmd/Ctrl - S?
• Sync this collection: Cmd/Ctrl - Shift - S
• Commit/Save changes now (In other words, I've made some changes but I am about to walk away from my computer and I don't want a power-outage to wipe out my recent work. --Morgen)

• Chrome navigation: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AEBehavior3320

Table/Sidebar Navigation

• Up and Down rows: Up, Down
• Edit mode: Enter
• Get out of Edit mode: Enter
• Shift-Tab in Windows navigates between panes/windows in an application. For example, moving between tabs in Firefox.

Once you're in Edit mode

• Cells: Up, Down, Right, Left
• Next cell: Tab
• Line break: Cmd/Ctrl Enter
• Delimiter for multiple values: Comma
• Activate/Check collection: Space bar

Editing

Usage patterns

• Duping an item to start from an existing 'template'
• Creating custom recurrence series
• Moving items between collections - Reorganizing, Correcting filing mistakes, etc.
• Adding items to another collection

Behaviors

• Duplicate Cmd/Ctrl - D (still being discussed on list)
  • Duplicates the selected items in the selected collection. All metadata that appears in the Detail View, Dashboard and Calendar views is duplicated into a separate item with its own UUID.

• Copy Cmd/Ctrl - C (Ctrl-Insert in many Windows/Office applications)
  • Adds the same item to a different collection.
  • If a user copies and pastes a non-event item into the same collection, we can either have nothing happen, or we can duplicate the items, whichever is easier to try.
  • If a user copies and pastes an event item into the same collection, we create a custom recurrence linking all the 'copies' of the event into a single series.

• Cut Cmd/Ctrl - X
  • Removes selected items from the selected collection.
  • Not an option for Collections in the sidebar.

• Paste Cmd/Ctrl - V (Shift-Insert in many Windows/Office applications) What happens on Paste is determined by the behaviors described above for Duplicate, Copy and Cut.

BIG Open issue: In the calendar with overlays, you can potentially multi-select across multiple collections. Then what do we do? If there are selected items that are not in the selected collection:

1. We could say that when there are overlays, Duplicate, Copy, Cut and Paste always apply to all overlayed collections; OR
2. We could ignore the items that are not in the selected collection; OR
3. We could Duplicate/Copy/Cut/Paste the items that are not in the selected collection into the 1st overlayed collection they do appear in, in the sidebar.

Honestly, this is just a hard problem. The ordering above is my best guess at what I think will be least confusing, but at this point, we should just try whatever is easiest to implement and test.

Related Bugs and List Discussions

• What should Copy and Paste mean in Chandler? http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-March/004432.html
• PREVIEW NotImplementedError on 'cut' operation in dashboard: https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8019
• FUTURE Add the ability to cut and paste (items) events on the calendar: http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5461
• FUTURE Ctrl+drag of events should copy events in smart ways: http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2838
• FIXED Copy & paste calendar event item not working: http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7298
• FIXED Super bug for rationalization of cut/copy/paste across Chandler: http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2780

Open Issues

• Do all of these things have corresponding menu items? Which ones don't? e.g. Navigating event lozenges.
• Do we want to make keyboard shortcuts as consistent as possible across platforms or
• Do we want to conform to dominant apps on each platform (e.g. Mail, iCal, Outlook)

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-- ReidEllis - 16 Apr 2006: There is no "insert" key on a Mac. It's labelled "Help", and has defined functionality.