February 15, 2008
Keyboard Navigation for your PersonalBrain
Keyboard Navigation is Here with PersonalBrain 4.1!
Keyboard Navigation is available in 4.1.Use the Arrow Keys (up, down, left and right) to move to your desired Thought and press Enter to activate the Thought. Shift Enter launches any attached files
Other Keyboard shortcuts you may note be aware of:
Editing and Creating Thoughts
These commands let you edit and create Thoughts related to the active Thought:
F2 Opens the Rename Thought dialog box.
F5 Refreshes the Virtual Thoughts in the current Brain.
F6 Child Thought
F7 Parent Thought
F8 Jump Thought
Searching the Web
F4 Opens the Search Web dialog box
Keyboard shortcuts for PCs
PersonalBrain Hot Key Windows+z opens PersonalBrain and shifts the focus to the Search box when PersonalBrain is hidden in auto-hide mode.
Notes Keyboard shortcuts for PCs
Ctrl+S Save Note
Ctrl+X Cut
Ctrl+C Copy
Ctrl+V Paste
Ctrl+A Select All
Ctrl+F Find
Notes Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac
Command+S Save Note
Comand+X Cut
Command+C Copy
Command+V Paste
Command+A Select All
Command+F Find
Filed under How-To's, PersonalBrain by Shelley Hayduk
Comments on Keyboard Navigation for your PersonalBrain »
Jeremy Wagstaff @ 6:56 pm
Shelley, thanks for this. I've got a couple of questions:
- How does one change the color circle that indicates where the cursor is? I can't find it in the Colors list in Options. That would help let users navigate via the keyboard by letting them know where the circle is.
- Also I noticed the keyboard navigation is not always as expected: It doesn't seem possible, for example, to be able to move from a Parent to a Sibling of that Parent, and, if Children have been split into more than one column, to move from the bottom of one column to the top of the next by using the Down arrow key (the Right/left arrow key will move the cursor to the same row on the next column, which makes sense, but doesn't really help move down a list if it's split into columns.)
Shelley Hayduk @ 9:48 pm
The color of the circle is set via the "Highlighted Thought, outline" color. It is the same color that appears when you mouse over a thought.
To navigate to siblings, you have to go to them from the active Thought by pressing right (if you are on a parent, you must go down first). This is necessary because if there are many parents, the scroll bar will appear and pressing right will do the appropriate scrolling.
As for navigating back up to the top of the next column by pressing down, this wouldn't work because then you would expect to go back to the previous column by pressing up, but pressing up needs to take you back to the active Thought…