Hello,
I create lot of lists in my notes text section. Every time I have to navigate to the menu Format>Text>List
Is there a keyboard shortcut to quickly start a list? a Numbered one or A,B,C … ?
No, there isn’t.
(In TextEdit, option-tab starts a list delimited with a dash, but in Tinderbox that keystroke has been coopted for other purposes.)
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Any update of this feature? I’d be happy to have a handy keyboard short cut since I also use lists a lot.
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I can certainly understand your interest in having a keyboard shortcut for a very frequently used function e.g. lists. It’s a difficult subject sometimes what to give a shortcut or not. Personally I don’t use the list function very often for instance and would prefer shortcuts for other functions.
Two solutions come to mind as an alternative to software hard coded keyboard shortcuts.
i) As a global solution for pretty much anything to do with keyboard inputs and actions Keyboard Maestro will let you transform anything that has a menu entry into a shortcut (and so much more). It does cost 36 dollars but has been an excellent investment.
ii) Ofter overlooked is the shortcut to help (command+/) and typing the first few letters of the menu item you would like to use. For TB I need only to type the 3 letters to reach the desired menu item. Longer than a dedicated keyboard shortcut but much faster than the mouse.
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The keyboard shortcut that goes straight to the search function under help. On my system (MacOS High Sierra) it seems to be Command+/. Once you reach this search window simply type the first few letters of the menu name that you would like to access e.g. “lis” or similar in this case for list.
You can set up a custom shortcut for pretty much any OS X menu item.
- Open
System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. - Click “app shortcuts” in the left pane
- Click the + button, select “Tinderbox7” from the Application dropdown
- Type “Format->Text->List…” in the “Menu title” box
- Enter the shortcut you want into the shortcut box
Now your shortcut is available in Tinderbox. It won’t immediately format it as a list, but it brings up the list dialog box so you can set the list options. It saves you a couple menu clicks…
Custom shortcuts are super useful. I particularly like them when I have stamps that I use frequently, I can assign a stamp to a keyboard shortcut and get quick access to it.
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I knew about custom shortcuts but had not known this way of bringing up the dialogue box. Thanks!
Boosting this to see if anyone has come up with a solution, using KM or any of the such.
Sorry. I remember now. Option-8 enters a bullet and indents. It is not nearly as nice visually but exports as a list.
Asterisk also begins a quick list.
I mapped CTRL+L to the Menu Item “List…” in the Menu “Format” in Tinderbox. I still need to add a prefix but ALT+Ü (German Keyboard Layout) produces “•” and that is good enough for me. I simply type CTRL+L, then add the prefix • and hit enter.
Unfortunately, though the quick-list-asterisk solution is more straight forward, it does not produce a prefix automatically (as far as I’ve seen).
On German Keyboard Layout ALT/Option-8 produces “{”. But good to know it’s generally possible 
According to Dr.Google:
To enter a bullet character on a German keyboard for a Mac, you can press and hold the Option key and then press a key that enters a diacritical mark
I know. Maybe I misunderstood you. I thought you meant that pressing Option + 8 That’s shortcut for a list in tinder box
But the bullet (or an asterisk) at the start of a paragraph will signal Tinderbox to start a quick list, whatever key code you used to generate it.
Interesting, I will try tomorrow in Tinderbox. I was under the impression that an indentation takes place after quick list with asrerix but an automatically added prefix (after initial definition) is not added.
If you don’t want the indent to take place (which I don’t) you can change the default $QuickListHangingindent and $QuickListIndent settings with the Inspector.
If you start a paragraph with an asterisk (in a default TBX) the paragraph is indented with the asterisk being retained as the bullet symbol. The latter makes sense as it, if using HTML export, it signals that the paragraph is part of a bulleted list and the correct HTML markup for that is added.
Of course if you don’t ever use export, this might seem odd, but it helps show that the app—being a toolbox—has to support many different forms of use. In most cases if we don’t want some of these behaviours we can turn them off - as is described in the the post just above this.
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