⌨️ Board view, meet keyboard navigation!

[Vanessa_N]

Hi Community!

Keyboard navigation for Board view has just rolled out, so you can move through work, make quick updates, and keep things moving without constantly reaching for your mouse.

This update is available to everyone, including Asana Personal and paid plans.

What’s new

• Use arrow keys to move between task cards and columns in Board view
• Move work across sections from the keyboard
• Make quick updates like assigning tasks, setting due dates, and editing task titles without leaving the board
• Work in a more keyboard-first, accessible way in Board view

Why we love this (and you will too)

Board view has long been great for visual workflows, but it has not always offered the same keyboard-first experience people were used to in List view. This update closes a big part of that gap, making Board view faster for power users and more accessible for people who rely on keyboard navigation every day.

It also connects directly to feedback we’ve heard in the Community. For example:

• Navigate and triage issues in Board view using keyboard asked for a way to move through Board view and triage work without switching back to the mouse. You can now do exactly that!
• a11y: Support “Change selected task” keyboard shortcut in Board views asked for more keyboard-friendly movement between tasks in Board view. This update helps close that gap. And although you still can’t reorder tasks within a column from the keyboard yet, that’s already in the plans for a future iteration.
• Shortcuts to scroll horizontally in Board view asked for an easier way to move across Board view without relying on a mouse. This isn’t a dedicated horizontal scrolling shortcut, but it does make moving across cards and columns much easier from the keyboard.

What the future might look like

Our plan for future iterations is to make Board view even easier to navigate from the keyboard. That would include things like moving through collapsed columns more smoothly, reordering tasks within a column, and selecting multiple cards for bulk actions. These future improvements have no concrete ETA yet, but we’ll keep you posted as things evolve.

As always, we’d love to hear what you think in the comments.

Now, MOUSE IS LAVA! Let’s see how long you can hold out.

[Kari_Ankeney]

Where can I find a list of available Board view keyboard shortcuts?

[Vanessa_N]

Hi @Kari_Ankeney, great question! We don’t have a separate shortcut list just for Board view yet, so the best reference right now is our general Keyboard shortcuts article, or the in-product shortcut menu with Ctrl-/ or ⌘/.

With this update, Board view now supports several keyboard-first actions that were previously missing. You can now:

• use ↑ / ↓ to move between tasks within a column
• use ← / → to move across columns
• use Space + ← / → to move a selected task to another column
• use ↵ Return to edit a task title inline on the board
• use common task shortcuts on a selected task, like Tab-M to assign it to yourself and Tab-D to set a due date

A couple of caveats: As we mentioned in the announcement, Board view still doesn’t support every shortcut that works in List view, and some actions remain view-specific. For example, keyboard multi-select with ⇧↑ / ⇧↓, and move selected task(s) up/down with ⌘↑ /⌘↓ or Ctrl-↑ / Ctrl-↓ are still List-view only. So this update is a big step toward a more keyboard-friendly Board view, but it’s not full List view parity yet, and more improvements are planned.

If you have any specific request or feedback, don’t hesitate to share as this really helps our PMs