Occasionally, one of my colleagues will see me adding a due date by typing one of the recognised shortcuts, and they’ll say, “Wow! I didn’t know you could do that!” So, just in case there are any others who don’t know them, here are some non-case-sensitive shortcuts for typing due dates: Typing a…

Thanks for sharing this tips with the Forum @Mark_Hudson :+1:t3: @lpb , yes they are official shortcuts! To get the full list of shortcuts, simply click on the “?” at the top right corner of your screen and select “Keyboards shortcuts” [10] Hope this helps! Have all a good Thursday!

Thanks, Larry. I didn’t know about next week, month and year! No matter how much I think I know about Asana, there’s always another surprise.

Except! For some reason none of this applied when assigning a date for a subtask. So you’ll likely end up, like me, navigating all over the place or editing your subtask or something before your eyes catch up to your muscle memory.

@Marie , Thanks, but I wasn’t very clear–I meant to ask specifically about the strings that Mark found could be typed into date fields: [image] Mark_Hudson: […] non-case-sensitive shortcuts for typing due dates: Typing a weekday will assign the task to the next one - Mon, Tues, Wed, etc. You c…

I see @lpb , thanks for the clarification :slight_smile: I’ll check with the Team and come back to you as soon as I have more information!

@lpb Just got the confirmation that these shortcuts are official; however, they are not listed in Keyboard shortcuts in Asana | Product guide • Asana Product Guide at the moment!

Great to know, @Marie – thanks!

I quite like discovering little secrets like this. :slight_smile:

Thanks for this shortcutted shortcuts. Just a question not really belonging to this case - but a little bit. I have several project templates and all have tasks depending on the date the project is created or the projects due date? e.g. 5 days after creating the project “task x” should be due / 2 da…

Due date shortcuts

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Mark_Hudson 16 November 2018 12:13 9

Thanks for pointing that out, @lee . I don’t use subtasks much, so I hadn’t realised.

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Due date shortcuts

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