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.

Opening Your Calendar

Before using any hotkeys, you need to access your calendar. Prisma Calendar is accessed through Obsidian commands, not visible buttons:

1. Press Ctrl/Cmd + P to open the command palette
2. Type: Prisma Calendar: Open [Calendar Name]
3. Press Enter

Highly Recommended: Assign a custom hotkey to this command (e.g., Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + C) for instant calendar access:

• Go to Settings → Hotkeys
• Search for Prisma Calendar: Open
• Click the + icon and press your desired key combination

Each calendar has its own open command, so you can assign different hotkeys to different calendars.

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 Hotkeys: Most commands (batch operations, filtering, navigation) are managed by a single set of global hotkeys. These hotkeys automatically target the calendar view that is currently active or in focus.

Global Hotkeys

Global hotkeys work across all calendars and automatically target the currently active calendar view.

Batch Operations

Batch operation hotkeys require Batch Selection Mode to be active first. Activate by clicking "Batch Select" button or using the Toggle Batch Selection hotkey.

Available batch 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).
• Batch: Mark Selection as Done: Marks all selected events as done by setting the status property to the done value configured in settings.
• Batch: Assign categories to selection: Opens the category assignment modal to assign categories to all selected events at once. The modal shows all available categories with their configured colors and allows multi-select. The operation is fully undoable.

Filtering Commands

Focus Search

• Function: Jumps focus to the search bar in the calendar toolbar
• Use Case: Quick keyboard access to title-based event filtering
• See Also: Filtering documentation for details on search functionality

Focus Expression Filter

• Function: Jumps focus to the expression filter input in the calendar toolbar
• Use Case: Quick keyboard access to advanced property-based filtering
• See Also: Filtering documentation for expression syntax and examples

Open Filter Preset Selector

• Function: Opens the filter preset dropdown menu
• Use Case: Quick access to saved filter expressions
• See Also: Filtering documentation for creating and managing presets

Show Filtered Events

• Function: Opens a modal displaying all events currently hidden by active filters
• Features:
  • Search within filtered events by name
  • Click any event to open its file
  • Helps identify which events are excluded by current search and expression filters
• See Also: Filtering documentation for filter behavior

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

Create New Event

• Function: Opens the create event modal for the active calendar
• Use Case: Quickly create events without clicking the calendar

Show Recurring Events

• Function: Opens a modal listing all recurring event sources
• Features: View, filter, enable/disable, and navigate to recurring events
• See Also: Recurring Events documentation

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

Global Event Search

• Function: Opens the global event search modal
• Features: Search across all events with cycle filters for recurring, all-day, and skipped events
• See Also: Global Search documentation

Highlight Events Without Categories

• Function: Temporarily highlights all events missing category assignments
• Duration: Events are highlighted for 10 seconds
• Use Case: Quickly identify which events need category assignment

Highlight Events With Category

• Function: Opens a modal to select a category and highlights all events with that category
• Duration: Events are highlighted for 10 seconds
• Use Case: Quickly identify all events belonging to a specific category
• Modal: Dropdown selector with all available categories from your events

Refresh Calendar

• Function: Manually triggers a full resync of the indexer and refreshes all calendar events
• Use Cases:
  • Force refresh when events appear out of sync
  • Update calendar after bulk file operations outside Obsidian
  • Refresh after modifying event files through external scripts or sync tools

Statistics Commands

Show Daily Statistics

• Function: Opens daily statistics modal for the current day
• Features: Pie chart and breakdown table showing time distribution for a single day
• See Also: Statistics documentation

Show Weekly Statistics

• Function: Opens weekly statistics modal for the current week
• Features: Pie chart and breakdown table showing time distribution for the week
• See Also: Statistics documentation

Show Monthly Statistics

• Function: Opens monthly statistics modal for the current month
• Features: Pie chart and breakdown table showing time distribution for the month
• See Also: Statistics documentation

Show All-Time Statistics

• Function: Opens all-time statistics modal
• Features: Pie chart and breakdown table showing lifetime time distribution
• See Also: Statistics documentation

Undo/Redo Commands

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

Integration Commands

Import .ics File

• Function: Opens the ICS import modal to import events from external calendars
• Use Case: Import events from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, etc.
• See Also: Integrations documentation

Export Calendar as .ics

• Function: Opens the ICS export modal to export calendar events
• Features: Select timezone, exclude skipped events, export to file
• See Also: Integrations documentation

Sync Calendar Accounts

• Function: Manually triggers CalDAV synchronization
• Use Case: Force sync with external CalDAV servers (Fastmail, Nextcloud, iCloud)
• See Also: CalDAV Integration documentation

Utility Commands

Open Prisma Main

• Function: Opens the main Prisma Calendar view/interface
• Use Case: Quick access to calendar overview

Restore Minimized Event Modal

• Function: Restores a previously minimized event creation/edit modal
• Use Case: Resume event creation after minimizing the modal
• See Also: Time Tracker documentation for minimize functionality

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
Create new event	Ctrl/Cmd+N	Quick event creation
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

Search & Filtering

Command	Suggested Binding	Why
Global event search	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+G	Search across all events
Focus expression filter	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+F	Advanced property-based filtering
Open filter preset selector	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P	Quick preset access
Show filtered events	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+H	View events hidden by active filters

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
Batch: Assign categories to selection	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T	Quick category assignment (T for Tag/Category)

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