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Orbit

Orbit keyboard shortcuts

The full set of keyboard shortcuts on Mac, and on iPad with a hardware keyboard.

Orbit on Mac, and iPad with a keyboardUpdated 31 July 2026

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You can use Orbit entirely from the keyboard. These shortcuts work on Mac and on iPad when a hardware keyboard is attached.

Tasks

ActionShortcut
New task⌘N
New window⇧⌘N
Duplicate⌘D
Move up⌘↑
Move down⌘↓
Move to Deleted⌘⌫
Cut / Copy / Paste⌘X ⌘C ⌘V
Select all⌘A

Places

ActionShortcut
Schedule⌘1
Today⌘2
This Week⌘3
This Month⌘4
Future⌘5
All⌘6

Views

ActionShortcut
Timeline⌥⌘1
Board⌥⌘2
Automatic⌥⌘3
By Day (This Week, This Month, Future)⇧⌘D
Reorder by When⇧⌘S
Reorder by Date Created⇧⌘K
Search tasks⌘F
Search everywhere⇧⌘F
Fold or open the island (Mac)⌥⌘I

Schedule

In Schedule, the view keys choose the scale instead.

ActionShortcut
Day⌥⌘1
Week⌥⌘2
Month⌥⌘3
Show or hide the list⌥⌘S
Fewer weeks, or taller hours⌘=
More weeks, or shorter hours⌘-

App

ActionShortcut
Settings⌘,
Quick Entry, from any app⌃⌥Space
Timeline and Board The same tasks in two shapes, a Timeline you can arrange by day or a drag-and-drop Board, and how Automatic picks between them. Schedule and calendar events See tasks and calendar events together by day, week or month in Schedule, create and edit events, and choose which calendars Orbit shows. Getting started with Orbit Set Orbit up in a few minutes: capture your first task, learn the four time buckets, and know where everything lives. Orbit’s plain-language capture What Orbit understands when you type (dates, times, tags, repeats, reminders and bucket shortcuts) and how to stop it reading something you meant literally.