Short answer: A guide to Aamu.app keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation, search, task handling, comments, emails, and daily workspace flow.

Aamu.app has keyboard shortcuts for the actions you repeat all day: moving between sections, creating new items, navigating lists, selecting items, closing tasks or tickets, and opening comment panels.

The shortcuts are intentionally contextual. A key usually activates the visible button or item for the current view. That keeps the same habit useful across Tasks, Docs, Emails, Helpdesk, Meetings, Forms, Databases, Files, Designs, Chat, and Posts.

Shortcuts are visible in the UI

Many Aamu buttons show their shortcut in the tooltip. For example, a create button may say New doc [c], Compose new email [c], or New meeting [c].

This is the best way to learn shortcuts: hover the control you already use and notice the key in brackets.

When shortcuts do not run

Aamu avoids running global shortcuts while you are typing into an input, textarea, editor, or checkbox. That means ordinary writing should not accidentally navigate away or close an item.

Navigation shortcuts

The sidebar has number shortcuts for the main sections. The exact sections depend on which apps your team has enabled, but the common mapping is:

  • 1 Home

  • 2 Posts or AI, depending on the enabled sidebar layout

  • 3 Chats

  • 4 Tasks

  • 5 Helpdesk

  • 6 Emails

  • 7 Designs

  • 8 Meetings

  • 9 Docs

  • 0 Databases

Because teams can enable and disable apps, treat the visible sidebar as the source of truth. If a section shows a keyboard hint, that is the shortcut for your current workspace.

Create with C

c is the main contextual create shortcut. It activates the visible create/compose button in the current section.

Examples:

  • in Docs, c creates a new Doc,

  • in Tasks, c creates or resumes a new task,

  • in Emails, c composes a new email,

  • in Meetings, c creates a new meeting,

  • in Forms, c creates a new form,

  • in Databases, c creates a new database, and

  • in Posts, Chat, Git, AI, and other sections, c follows the visible create action for that section.

Move through lists

Most item lists support keyboard selection. Use the arrow keys to move the selected item up or down in the current list.

When the selected item moves out of view, Aamu scrolls it back into view. This makes long lists easier to scan without reaching for the mouse after every item.

Select and bulk-handle items

In item lists, s or . can select the current item when the list supports selection. This is useful before using bulk actions.

Esc can unselect items when a selection toolbar is active.

Shift with arrow navigation can also help select while moving in supported lists.

Close, reopen, delete, or toggle with X

x is used as a contextual toggle/action shortcut in several item views.

Examples include:

  • closing or reopening a task,

  • closing or reopening a Helpdesk ticket,

  • acting on the currently selected item when a supported list/action is visible.

Because x is contextual, check the visible button tooltip. If the UI says Close [x] or Close and resolve [x], that is the action that will run.

Reply, read, and section-specific keys

Some sections use additional shortcuts for their own workflow. For example, Emails has shortcuts around read/unread or message actions, and some comment/reply areas expose their own keys.

These are best learned from the visible controls, because the action depends on the current section and selection.

Internal comments with Alt+C

Some work items have an internal comments panel. Where the UI exposes it, Alt+C can open or close that internal comments area.

This is especially useful in Helpdesk and database-style workflows where internal discussion should stay separate from customer-facing or public content.

Preview with Alt+W

Some textarea/editor contexts use Alt+W for preview. This is handled separately so it can work in writing contexts where normal global shortcuts are disabled.

Keyboard-first, not keyboard-only

Buttons and menus remain available alongside keyboard shortcuts. A shortcut activates the corresponding visible action when it is available.

A practical way to learn them

  1. Use number keys for the sections you visit most.

  2. Use c to create in the current section.

  3. Use arrow keys to move through lists.

  4. Use s or . when selecting list items.

  5. Use x only when the visible action says what it will do.

  6. Watch button tooltips for the shortcut hints.

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