Custom Keyboard Shortcuts for Assigning Tags
The new 0-9 (or Ctrl-0 through Ctrl-9) tag shortcuts are great, but being able to arbitrarily assign any key as a tag shortcut would be even better: 'L' for Lunch, 'P' for Project 1, 'S' for Daily Stand-up Meeting.
Tag shortcuts are already the most efficient way to tag time. With easier to remember custom mnemonics, this powerful feature would also become one of the most accessible.
Nicholas Piegdon
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Dan Allen
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A similar option would be to hit F4 to repeat last tag used. Same shortcut as in MS Office for applying last format or typing.
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Nicholas Piegdon
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It's been six years...
I did just figure out I could use an AutoHotkey script (with an "#IfWinActive" directive so it's only active on the main ManicTime window) to map 0 through 9 to arbitrary characters. That's already a thousand times better. But I immediately wish I had more than ten tag shortcuts!
More shortcuts please! With this workaround I don't even mind if they're still hard-coded. Maybe break the 0 and Ctrl-0 mappings into two separate shortcuts, etc.? Then we'd at least have access to twenty instead of ten.
(That is a minimal effort solution where you wouldn't have to worry/test against collisions with the other UI shortcuts. It's got a nice, clean, non-destructive upgrade path from older versions, too. You could just duplicate all the existing tag shortcuts: one set for numbers and another set for Ctrl+number.)
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David C. Sorge
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Even if this were a Ctrl+T, then an arbitrary key, bound to a tag, this would make tagging much more pleasant an efficient!