Press Ctrl+O to display the document list, type or select a document, press Enter.
Able to edit the selected document immediately.
No longer in list edit mode. Have to press Tab (sometimes twice in Firefox) to start editing.
I also have to press Esc twice to cancel the document list and start editing again. The first Esc only dismisses the window.
Windows 10, Firefox 54, Chrome 59.
You probably want to enable āFocus on first item when opening docā in Settings - Preference - Advance settings.
We had a poll a while back and most people donāt want this behavior, so we changed it to an opt-in thing. The problem is that automatically focus will also un-render the Markdown, which many people find annoying. I know you rely on keyboard but many people donāt ā I hope thatās understandable!
Link to the poll: https://twitter.com/DynalistHQ/status/855423145385373697
I do have that option enabled (since I found out about it Keyboard not functional when starting Dynalist).
Youāre saying you have the option but the focus doesnāt happen? I canāt seem to reproduce that on my end.
I have that option enabled. The list now starts off focused when I go to dynalist.io (with the option disabled, it didnāt do this). But with Ctrl+O, type characters or up/down arrow keys, Enter to open a list (a different or the same list), the focus does not go to the list.
Hey Kyle,
I found why this is happening! Iāve made a fix for it and it should be deployed within a couple of days.
I still have a similar problem when I open a bookmark that is built on top of a search query. The focus is lost unless I use the mouse. I do have the focus on first item advanced setting turned on. Any thoughts on what I can do?
Two quick questions:
And thatās within a document or globally?
Thatās within a document.
I can confirm thatās happening ā will fix as soon as we can!
Hi! I know this is an old thread, but I am new(ish) to Dynalist and also having this issue. Iām using ctrl+o to switch between documents, and Iād like to be able to start editing without using the mouse. Is there a keyboard shortcut for switching into edit mode? Iāve been trying to search for this but I havenāt found anything yet (maybe I missed something). The āfocus on first item when opening docā doesnāt work for my case because some of my documents are somewhat long, so Iām usually switching from somewhere in the middle of one to somewhere in the middle of the other.