Miscellaneous Tips and Tricks

You can put double quotes around text if you don't want it to be interpreted by Runway. For example if you wanted to use "3m" to mean "three metres" in an action description but Runway would interpret this as "three minutes", just surround it in double quotes:

buy "3m" of coaxial cable @errands 10m

You can make the end of an action name explicit with a semicolon. However, if there are multiple semicolons in the string, the last one is treated as the end of the action description.

buy 3 metres of coaxial cable; home-theatre

When editing an action, only enter the data you want to change. For example, if you edit an action and replace the entire contents with "@work", only the context will be set. the name, time, energy and tags will be unaffected. Be careful using this feature with tags, however. If you replace the entire contents with tags like "urgent personal obligations", Runway will interpret this as a replacement action name, which is not what you want. You need to explicitly supply a blank name by inserting a semicolon before the tags. Runway is smart enough to avoid replacing your action description with the blank one and will instead replace the tags.

If an action is selected and you delete it (or it otherwise disappears due to some command) the next action in the list will be selected automatically. This means you can quickly process a list of actions by selecting the first and using shortcut keys for the rest.