Feature Request: Custom Keyboard Shortcuts and Proper Multi Select Support

Please add fully customizable keyboard shortcuts similar to VS Code.

Right now, ClickUp’s keyboard shortcut system is both limited and inefficient. Many default shortcuts are unused or low value, yet users cannot remap them to actions they actually rely on. This is wasted shortcut real estate.

More importantly, ClickUp is missing extremely basic multi select behavior that exists in file explorers and most modern productivity tools:

• Shift + click should select a continuous range of tasks from the currently selected task to the target task

• Ctrl or Cmd + click should allow individual task selection

• Ctrl or Cmd + A should select all tasks in the current view

These are table stakes interactions. Not having them makes basic admin work like cleanup, bulk edits, and organization far more time consuming than the actual task work. Too many clicks, too much friction.

Power users live on the keyboard. We actively prefer shortcuts over mouse driven workflows. The lack of standard selection mechanics and the inability to customize shortcuts significantly hurts productivity and makes ClickUp feel clunky compared to tools like VS Code.

Until core interactions like selecting multiple tasks efficiently are resolved, it’s hard to justify paying for the platform when simple organizational work takes longer than it should.

Custom keyboard shortcuts plus standard multi select behavior would be a massive quality of life improvement and a clear win for serious users.

Absolutely agree. A tool of this kind needs to be as frictionless as possible. Users shouldn't have to think about how to use it, we should be able to rely on 'muscle memory' and just keep hitting hotkeys to fly through our work.

Especially for favorites, like the 2nd favorite can be accessed with Alt+2 for example

part of the beauty of apps like Superhuman is the fact tha tyou can navigate around the entire interface using a keyboard. most are faster than using a mouse. especially in the desktop app which can be qucik lauched, this would be a game changer.

yes, also more customizable

Yeah, this is very much needed. I added a detailed feature request for how the shortcuts could be implemented here:

Kindly add ability to open "Remind Me" on task view with keyboard shortcut key 'r'

please create a navigation box because it would be easy to navigate around with only keyboard and helpful than mouse

i want shortcut for duplicate why? i used it very much often and it is very much helpful please consider it is one important key element clickup is missing please add it

Similar to the "hover + m" to self-assign, would love to have "hover + c" (or any other letter) to close task