Trickster keyboard shortcuts

Trickster User Manual
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Global hotkey

Control-Z - open and close the window. Can be modified in Preferences.

Main window

  • ⌘1 — Filters
  • ⌘2 — Items
  • ⌘3 — Favorites
  • Left, Right — move between sections
  • Esc — close window
  • ⌘, — Preferences
  • ⌘T — Global File Tracking settings
  • ⌘P — Toggle showing only files associated with currently active application
  • ⌘- — Basic file view (only filename, icon)
  • ⌘= — Extended file view (folder, preview)
  • ⌘N — Sort by Name
  • ⌘R — Sort by date (Recent on top)
  • letters, digits, some punctuation — start filtering filenames based on the text
  • ⌃P — Previous item (same as up-arrow)
  • ⌃N — Next item (same as down-arrow)

In recent files list

  • ⌘M — show the context menu for selected items (like the right click)
  • ⌘K — Rename
  • ⌘C — Copy to clipboard
  • ⌘F — Flag selected files
  • ⌘⌥F — Unflag selected files
  • ⌘S — Add selected files to favorites
  • ⌘⌥S — Remove selected files from favorites
  • ⌫ or ⌦ — Remove selected files from the list.
  • ⌥⌫ or ⌥⌦ — Remove from the list all files which are located in folders of the selected files. The files are not deleted from the disk and they are not excluded. They will appear again next time they’re touched.
    • If this command is performed on a folder listing, then all the listed files from inside this folder will be removed from the list.
    • If you select a regular file listing, then the folder where this file is located will be used. So all files in the same folder and its subfolders will be removed from the list. For example, Alt-Delete on Mail.app will remove from the list all applications in /Applications.

In recent files list and in Favorites

  • Return — open selected file(s)
  • Command-Return — Reveal selected file(s) in Finder
  • Space — QuickLook selected file(s)

In Filters

  • 1-9 — Select the specific filter row
  • Up, Down — Next, previous filter

In File Tracker and Filter editors:

  • 1-5 — Select the relevant section
  • ⌘= — Add new item (the “+” button)
  • ⌘- — Remove selected items (the “–” button)

In Search

  • ⎋ — Clear search
  • Up/Down arrows or ⌘2 - switch to recent items list.

Next → Check some of the Advanced topics listed in 1 - Start here - Welcome to Trickster