How to return active focus to the list?

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Daniel Nissenbaum

• December 17, 2018 02:41

Greetings!  I find that, often, especially after pressing Esc one or more times to make the 'Search' box active/inactive and/or navigating between items using the special Ctrl + ; shortcut, that the cursor is not active in the Workflowy list.  This requires me to grab the mouse and move the cursor and click just to make the cursor active.

Is there a keyboard shortcut that can be used to make the cursor active somewhere in the current list, in case the cursor disappears?

Thanks!

Dan

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  Duncan

  • January 22, 2019 14:36
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  In the Web UI, you can get into this "where is my text insertion cursor?" situation if you Ctrl+; and return "Home".

  I've found that if you then press Esc twice, you get your cursor back in the main editing area.

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  Dustin G

  • March 28, 2019 20:27

  Yes, but pressing ESC again, will clear your search. I'm looking for a solution to this as well. When I type in the search box, how do I use the keyboard to place my curser back in the search results? Thanks.

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  BEN CROWL

  • August 31, 2019 00:40

  From the search box you can press TAB to return to the list, but this does lose your place in the list.

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  william griffiths

  • October 10, 2019 15:29

  I have a similar question but this is what I want. It's such bad UX that I'm going to describe it in bug report fashion.  This is for mac desktop: 
  
  

  • Be at some location A in the list
  • Use CMD-K to open search
  • Type in search term, use arrow keys to select the match I want
  • See that the list view now is focused on the location I selected (good)
  • expected behavior: I should now have my cursor in the list, so I can continue to operate using keyboard alone
  • actual behavior: I have to move my hand to the mouse and click inside the list to get my cursor there

  What I want, overall, is to do the following operation using only my keyboard:

  • Jump quickly to a certain spot in the list, using search
  • Enter information there

  This operation is not possible as far as I can tell. Ouch

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • October 10, 2019 20:30

  Hey Luke, 

  thank you for the bug-report-type write-up!

  I will log this to get looked at in due course...

   

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  rawbytz

  • October 10, 2019 21:49

  In Windows (desktop and Chrome) the Jump Menu puts focus on the first child... if the target has no children, it gets focus. 

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  andy

  • April 23, 2020 11:17

  Same problem for me on the Mac desktop. And I agree with the other users in this thread = it's a pretty big deal. (though maybe you need to be a keyboard user to really understand that?)  Whenever I use Esc or Jump (Cmd-K) to navigate, I need to use the mouse to get a cursor back on the list.  Requesting a mouse-free solution for this.

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