Tuesday Jira Vibes — How Jira keyboard shortcuts save you hours?

[Daria Kulikova_GitProtect_io]

Hello, New to Jira Community!

In today’s Tuesday Jira Vibes, let’s talk about one of tone of my favorite productivity hack — keyboard shortcuts. 

Honestly, I can’t imagine my work without them. I use shortcuts all the time — across all tools — but in Jira, they’re an absolute game-changer. Once I got the hang of them, I kept wondering: how did I survive without these?! 😅

Example? 

• Pressing “c”, you can instantly create an issue
• With “/”, you can jump straight to the search bar and find work items you need
• With numbers “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”, “5”, you can quickly switch from Summary (1), to Board (2), List (3), or go to the Calendar (4), or Timeline (5)

And that’s just the start! There are shortcuts for almost everything—navigating boards, managing sprints, opening issues, filtering dashboards… you name it.

Where to find them in Jira? Just press “?” (Shift + /), and that’s it — you can see the list of shortcuts that work in Jira.

So, in today’s discussion, comment on this discussion, answering any of the following questions:

• Do shortcuts really save you hours, or is it just a “nice to have”?
• Which shortcut is your absolute favorite?
• Which shortcut do you think will be most useful if you just discovered it?

Let’s make this Tuesday much more productive together! 🚀

P.S. Don’t forget to check out other discussions under the tuesday-jira-vibes tag and share your tips!

[Rune Rasmussen]

In the end I've ended up disabling keyboard shortcuts.
Too often have I found that right when I thought I clicked on a text box the UI loaded something more and shifted everything slightly without me noticing, and I started typing away.
This usually resulted in a myriad of things happening in quick succession.

And some keyboard shortcuts are a bit wonky to use with Nordic keyboard layout.
[ to close the left hand navigation menu for instance is AltGr+8 (or Ctrl+Alt+8 if you don't have AltGr) in Windows.

If changes didn't just take effect immediately or there was a save/confirm button I would be more inclined to use keyboard shortcuts.
But until that day they will remain off for me.

[Daria Kulikova_GitProtect_io]

Thanks for sharing your take @Rune Rasmussen ! Those accidental triggers you mentioned can make things tricky :)