I feel the exact same way! Iāve currently reverted to moving tasks around by dragging them around, but itās just so annoying to lose these really handy shortcuts. Letās hope the product team at Asana add this functionality so that it would be easy to recreate the old system.
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I recently learned that āSince the update the Tab + Y, L, & U are no longer functional.ā
This kills my productivity. Mouse clicking every time I want to move a task to a different section is a pain and ruins my flow.
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Briefly describe (1-2 sentences) the Bug youāre experiencing: Keyboard shortcuts for My Tasks View are not working after new update
Steps to reproduce: Go to My Tasks Section; Change sort to āNoneā to get to Today/Upcoming/Later view; Use Tab+Y/U/L to change task section quickly without tedious clicking and dragging; NOT WORKING
Browser version: Wavebox (Chromium-based browser); Version 10.0.503.2 stable
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As described in various posts above, it seems the key board shortcuts are no longer working.
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Yes, am really missing shortcuts.
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Please bring the shortcuts TAB-L, TAB-Y and TAB-U back. Those were extremely useful.
Those are still listed under Asana Shortcuts pop up modal, so I believe it mustāve been a bug introduced with the update.
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Seconded. Please bring these back. No matter what browser I try, the keyboard shortcuts @Marcus6 mentioned arenāt working.
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Yeah, really poor UI move here to remove this core functionality from Asana. This definitely hurts the productivity of me and my team. This is the sort of fundamental change I worry about when Asana continues to add feature bloat that my organization has no use for.
Please bring back the TAB-L and TAB-Y shortcuts asap.
Please bring back the Keyboard shortcuts! (Iāll add my voice to this chorus).
There are ways around the āsection was renamedā problem - There could be a Tab+Y,U,L section regardless of the (re)naming. I renamed mine āNowā, āSoonā, and āIncomingā (not Today, Upcoming, or Recently Assigned) but some kbd shortcuts could still apply. Itās a real drag on productivity.
Thanks.
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Hey Asana-Team!
It seems that with the introduction of your new Rules-Feature, youāve discontinued the shortcuts for Today (Tab + Y), Upcoming (Tab + U) and Later (Tab + L).
Thatās really disappointing! Please re-consider to provide a shortcut to easily re-prioritze within My Tasks.
Right now, itās super laborious.
Here is what I know right now:
- In the My Task view, I can use Ctrl + Shift + Arrow_down to move the task to another section. But in order to do that, I first have to set focus to the task name, in the My Tasks list. I cannot chance the section, if focus is on the task details.
So Iām typing in the details, then I have to reach back to the mouse, click on the name and then use the shortcut like 2-3 times to put the task to later. Quite cumbersome, when it used to be just Tab + L. - In the task details, next to assignee, I can define the section of My Tasks, where that task is located. Thatās a nice improvement, to have that information there.
But I canāt reach it via shortcuts. Again, I have to use the mouse, and point and click twice.
(Have I mentioned that I hate using the mouse?!)
PS:
I really love your product! I use it every day for 7 years now and you guys keep improving it and keep introducing new great features!
Itās the first time I ācomplainā about a changeā¦ Youāre all about productivity, right? So please donāt discontinue shortcuts without providing an alternative.
Youāre amazing! Keep it up!
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Lot of inconvenience in not having this nifty feature. Iām eagerly waiting to hear back on updates from the Product team on plan to bring this feature back.
Removing the Tab-U & Tab-L shortcuts has actually made the entire app unusable
ā¦Whoever decided this clearly didnāt speak to users before pushing the āUpgradeā
Can we please have them back or i think most of us will be heading over to Monday.com
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Iād just like to add my two cents, keyboard shortcuts were a very necessary feature. Removing them has made Asana much slower and hampered my productivity.
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Removing the hotkey option for moving tasks between sections is really frustrating for me. Iāve used asana for 10 years and am now considering switching products. ugh
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Hi! I donĀ“t like the new āmy task-functionalityā mainly because I cant use short commando to move a task from a section to another. (TAB+Y, TAB+U, TAB+L). I miss it so much! Will the short commando functionality come back?
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Hi @Vanja_Engvall,
Yes, Asana has said they are working on having keyboard shortcuts be available in My Tasks again.
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Asana feels really clunky without these shortcuts. Hope they bring them back soon
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Another day and another asana change that makes the product worse
Deprecating the keyboard short cuts and even the mouse click options to mark for upcoming or later!
WTH?! Makes me wonder if the product team have any understanding of the different ways people use asana
This is one way to push people to ClickUp, keep removing functionality that makes it fast and easy to use.
Similar to last years removal of swipe on tasks to access the sub menu in the app.
Just bonkers.
Iāve fedback to the support team, so frustrating that stuff gets worse not better!
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These keyboard shortcuts cannot come back fast enough. I canāt overstate how frustrating this is for our team. I spent so much goodwill trying to convince the team to rely on Asana for our workflows over the past few years. Having a core functionality broken like this is really eroding the progress weāve made as an organization getting buy in from our less technologically adaptive team members. Even for the most technically proficient, this loss is still super annoying.
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Hi everyone - Iām glad to share that weāve just released Keyboard shortcuts for My Tasks sections! 
You can now use two different keyboard shortcuts to quickly move tasks that are assigned to you between the sections in your My Tasks.
- Use Tab-Y when the task pane is open and the task is assigned to you to open the section mover menu for your My Tasks.
- Use Tab-U when you have one or more tasks selected to open the section mover menu for these tasks (this works in both projects and in My Tasks!)
Once the menu is open, you can navigate it with the arrow keys and hit enter to select the section. We are going to keep iterating on this feature to make it even better!
Thank you all forsharing this feedback with us!
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