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Command Bar

⌨️ How to open it?
🆕 Create tasks and events
Create a task ☑️
Create an event 🗓️
Create a Zoom meeting 🔵
🗓️ Schedule Tasks, Time Slot and Events
✨ Special Characters
📸 The Capture feature
⭐️ The Command Bar inside Akiflow

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The Command Bar is the fastest way to create and edit tasks/events in Akiflow. You can open it from anywhere on your laptop.

⌨️ How to open it?

The default shortcut to open it is ALT/OPT SPACE, but it can be changed in Settings → Shortcuts:

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Desktop only: To open the Command Bar and capture your tasks from everywhere, download our desktop app. Download it at this link: https://akiflow.com/download

Inside Akiflow, you can open the Command Bar using cmd K *

*Ctrl for Windows users

🆕 Create tasks and events

Create a task ☑️

With the command bar opened, you can type the task's name and just hit ENTER to add the task straight to the Inbox.

Create an event 🗓️

With the command bar opened you can type the event's name and use ctrl/cmd + 2 to select the "New Event" option.

Create a Zoom meeting 🔵

Simply type “Zoom”, and the command bar will prompt you to create a new meeting

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Join a meeting using the command bar: If a meeting is about to begin, you can open the command bar and the first suggestion would be to join the meeting.

🗓️ Schedule Tasks, Time Slot and Events

You can add a date and time to schedule any elements while creating them. For tasks and slots, you can also use the shortcut P to plan and replan them.

Check here for some examples of how to plan your tasks using natural language! 🗓️Plan your tasks - 🕘 Examples of dates, times and time frames:

✨ Special Characters

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Use the Special Characters to add information to tasks and events quickly

You can find the special characters at the bottom of the Command Bar:

> assign task to time slot

= task/event duration

# task project

* task tags

< task deadline

! task priority

| task/event calendar (lock a task and change the event calendar)

@ event guests

// task/event description

ESC removes recognition

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⌫⏎ Use backspace/ESC to remove text recognition. E.g., erase "tomorrow" from "Lunch with Tom."

Important remark: After typing the special characters, insert the information without space from them.

📸 The Capture feature

Use the Command Bar to quickly fetch links by only copying a short text from the website. Check out how it's done here:

📸How to capture texts and URLs

⭐️ The Command Bar inside Akiflow

The Command Bar inside of the app shows extra commands for the user to experience.

You can see how they work here:

🌟All the commands

Additionally, you can hit G to jump directly to a project page - or a specific section - a date, or a view (e.g Snoozed)