Space Command keeps its controls out of the way, so some of what it does is only a click, a double-click, or a right-click away. This page gathers them by where they are, then a few habits that help.
The menu bar mark
To
Do this
Show the panel, or bring it forward when it's covered
Click the mark.
Hide the panel, when it's in front
Click the mark.
Open the app's menu
Right-click the mark.
The app's menu has Show Panel, Quiet Mode, Settings…, About Space Command, Space Command Help, and Quit Space Command.
A Terracotta dot beside the mark means there's an open #p0 somewhere. It hides while Quiet Mode is on. Hover over the mark to see how many there are; Today lists them.
The panel
To
Do this
Dock the panel on the other side of the screen
Drag its header toward that side.
Make the panel wider or narrower
Drag its inner edge.
Hide the panel
Click the red button at its top left or the mark in the menu bar, choose Hide Panel from the ⋮, or press ⌘W or ⌘M.
Float or dock the panel
Click the green button at its top left. ⌥-click it to make a floating panel full height.
Open About
Choose About Space Command from the ⋮, or click the badge at the left of the header when the window buttons are off.
Open these help pages
Click the ⋮, and choose Space Command Help.
Switch tabs
Click the tab, or press ⌘1, ⌘2, or ⌘3.
Change the scope
Click the scope name, or press ⌥⌘1 or ⌥⌘2 for its first two options.
Show tasks or ideas, or drafts or published posts
Click the open tab again, to step through its Show choices.
Fold away inactive projects
Click the ⋮, and choose Quiet Mode.
Bring the panel forward from anywhere
Click its Dock icon, choose it with ⌘Tab, or open Space Command again.
Show an item in the panel from a script or link
Open spacecommand://reveal?path=<file>&line=<n>. It opens Tasks in the file's project, with the item selected.
The panel remembers its side and width. Hiding it never quits the app. The scope follows you between tabs: in a project, Posts shows its site and Clipboard its copies.
The Tasks tab
To
Do this
Step through tasks and ideas, tasks only, and ideas only
Click the Tasks tab while it's open.
Show a task's priority strip, Snooze, and Focus
Click the task.
Open an item at its line
Double-click it.
See the full text of a row cut short with "…"
Click it. Click again, or press Esc, to fold it.
See every action, with its key
Right-click the item.
Go to a project's scope
Click the project's name on its group's line.
Go back from a project's scope
Click the ‹ before the title.
Show a section's file
Click the section's heading.
Open a section's file
Click the → at the end of its line.
See where the focus lives
Click the focus card, then click the line it shows to open the item.
Right-click menus
Right-click
For
A task, on any list or card
Complete or Reopen, Focus, Priority, Snooze or Unsnooze, Open, Open With, and Show in Finder
An idea
Snooze or Unsnooze, Let Go, Make a Task, Open, Open With, and Show in Finder
A section's heading
Add Task Here, and Squash Done when it has finished tasks
A group's line
Go to Project, Add Task Here, and Squash Done when it has finished tasks
The project's name in the header
Open, Open With, Show in Finder, Project Info, and, for a folder you made a project, Stop Treating as Project
A copy, on the Clipboard tab
Remove
Projects
To
Do this
Open a project's scope
Click the project on the All projects board.
See a health flag's evidence and choices
Click the flag.
See what got done and what's new
Click the "Since" line on the health card.
Open Project Info
Click the ⓘ on the health card.
Unlink or redirect a tag
Click the tag in Project Info.
The Posts tab
To
Do this
See a post's opening paragraph and note
Click the post.
Open a post in your editor
Double-click it.
Publish or unpublish a post
Right-click it.
Open the live site, in one site
Click the site's name.
Open a post's live page
Click the post, then click View on Site.
Jump to a year's posts, in one site
Click the year.
Hide a site's posts
Right-click the site's name, on its card or in the header, and choose Hide Posts.
The Clipboard tab
To
Do this
See the original of a cleaned-up copy
Click the preview.
Step through Markdown styles
Click the Markdown chip while it's on.
Step through Unindent's modes
Click the Unindent chip.
Copy a saved reference again
Click it under Saved.
Empty the list in view
Click the ⋮, and choose Clear Clipboard History.
Settings and About
To
Do this
Add folders
Drop them from the Finder onto Settings › Folders.
Open a folder's .spacecommand.toml
Click it in Settings › Folders.
Copy the app's version
Click the version in About.
Close About
Press Esc or ⌘W, or click outside it.
About links to the Website, Help, the Changelog, and Privacy. After you follow a link, About stays open behind the browser, for another link. A click outside no longer closes it then: press Esc or ⌘W, or click the badge again.
Habits that help
Queue your focus. Mark several tasks #focus, and the card shows one at a time. Tick it off and the card offers the next #focus in the same project, so a day can run down the queue. See Focus and calm.
Snooze rather than delete.#snooze keeps an item out of your lists without losing it. ⌘F finds it, with Unsnooze to bring it back.
Tag notes for a project. A line in your vault tagged with a project's name, such as #starter-timer, shows up in that project, under "Tagged #starter-timer".
Undo freely.⌘Z takes back the last tick, priority, publish, Squash Done, promotion, or cleared copy while the panel has the keyboard.
Learn the keys from the menu. The right-click menu shows each action's key, so ↑↓, Space, 0 to 4, F, and S come with use. See Key commands.
Set a hotkey.Settings › General › Show or hide the panel puts the panel a keystroke away.
Squash at the end of the day.Squash Done clears finished tasks from the list without touching your files.
badge at the left of the header when the window buttons are off.