Hotkeys

Prisma Calendar provides a comprehensive set of hotkeys to streamline your workflow. You can assign custom key combinations to these actions in Obsidian’s settings under Settings → Hotkeys.

Hotkey System Overview

Prisma Calendar's hotkeys are designed to be both powerful and intuitive. They are divided into two main categories:

1. Calendar-Specific Hotkeys: Each calendar you create gets its own dedicated "Open" command. This allows you to assign a unique hotkey to quickly open each of your calendars.
2. Global Batch Hotkeys: All batch operations (like duplicating, deleting, or moving events) are managed by a single set of global hotkeys. These hotkeys automatically target the calendar view that is currently active or in focus.

Global Batch Operations

The batch operation hotkeys are a core feature for managing multiple events efficiently. Here’s how they work:

• Shared Across Calendars: There is only one set of hotkeys for all batch actions, regardless of how many calendars you have. For example, the Batch: Delete Selection hotkey will work on any calendar that is currently active.
• Requires Batch Selection Mode: Crucially, for any of the batch operation hotkeys to work, you must first activate Batch Selection Mode. You can do this by clicking the "Batch Select" button in the calendar's header or by using the Toggle Batch Selection hotkey.
• Context-Aware: If you try to use a batch hotkey when Batch Selection Mode is not active, the command will not trigger, and you will see a notice informing you that the mode must be enabled.

Available Batch Hotkey Commands

Here is a complete list of the batch operations you can assign hotkeys to:

• Toggle Batch Selection: Activates or deactivates the batch selection mode for the focused calendar.
• Batch: Select All: Selects all events currently visible within the calendar's view.
• Batch: Clear Selection: Deselects all events that are currently selected.
• Batch: Duplicate Selection: Creates an exact copy of each selected event.
• Batch: Delete Selection: Permanently deletes all selected events after a confirmation.
• Batch: Open Selection: Opens the corresponding note for each selected event in a new tab.
• Batch: Clone to Next Week: Clones each selected event to the same day of the following week.
• Batch: Clone to Previous Week: Clones each selected event to the same day of the previous week.
• Batch: Move to Next Week: Moves each selected event to the same day of the following week.
• Batch: Move to Previous Week: Moves each selected event to the same day of the previous week.
• Batch: Move By: Opens a dialog to move selected events by a custom number of days. Supports positive values (move forward) and negative values (move backward). For example, enter 7 to move events one week forward, or -3 to move them 3 days back.
• Batch: Skip Selection: Marks all selected events as skipped (hidden from calendar).

Navigation Commands

Open Current Note in Calendar

The Open Current Note in Calendar command provides quick navigation from any note to its corresponding event in the calendar:

• Function: Opens the calendar view and navigates to the date of the currently active note
• Behavior:
  • Automatically detects which calendar the note belongs to (based on directory)
  • Opens the calendar view if not already open, or focuses it if already open
  • Switches to week view and navigates to the event's date
  • Highlights the event for 5 seconds for easy identification
• Requirements: The active note must:
  • Be located in a calendar directory
  • Have frontmatter with a date property (Start, Date, or configured start property)

Filtering & Search Commands

The filtering commands enable keyboard-driven navigation of the calendar's powerful filtering system:

Focus Search

• Function: Jumps directly to the search bar input in the calendar toolbar
• Use Case: Quick text-based filtering by event title

Focus Expression Filter

• Function: Jumps directly to the expression filter input
• Use Case: Advanced property-based filtering with JavaScript expressions

Open Filter Preset Selector

• Function: Opens the filter presets dropdown for quick preset selection
• Use Case: Apply saved filter expressions with a single click

Event Management Commands

Show Skipped Events

• Function: Opens a modal listing all events marked as skipped
• Features: Quickly enable, navigate to, or open skipped events

Show Disabled Recurring Events

• Function: Opens a modal listing all disabled recurring events
• Features: Quickly enable, navigate to, or open disabled recurring event sources

Undo/Redo Commands

• Undo: Reverses the last calendar operation
• Redo: Reapplies a previously undone operation

Recommended Keybindings

Here are suggested keybindings organized by workflow:

Essential Bindings

Command	Suggested Binding	Why
Open current note in calendar	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+C	Quick calendar navigation from any note
Focus search	Ctrl/Cmd+F	Standard search shortcut
Toggle batch selection	Ctrl/Cmd+B	Quick access to batch operations
Undo	Ctrl/Cmd+Z	Standard undo binding
Redo	Ctrl/Cmd+Y	Standard redo binding

Advanced Filtering

Command	Suggested Binding	Why
Focus expression filter	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+F	Advanced search variant
Open filter preset selector	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P	Quick preset access

Batch Operations

Command	Suggested Binding	Why
Batch: Delete Selection	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Delete	Clear batch delete
Batch: Duplicate Selection	Ctrl/Cmd+D	Quick duplication
Batch: Move By	Ctrl/Cmd+M	Precise date adjustments

Tips

• Batch operations require batch selection mode to be active first
• Undo/redo supports all event modifications (create, delete, move, edit)
• Command palette: Access all commands via Ctrl/Cmd+P → search "Prisma Calendar"
• Filter commands enable mouse-free navigation between filtering options
• Navigation commands work even when the calendar is not currently open