Hyper Plan v2.1 Expert Tips

These tips are intended to help expert users get more out of Hyper Plan. A basic overview of Hyper Plan is available here.

The icon overlay

Select View>Icon Overlay to edit and delete and create new cards in the Cards pane using icons that appear as you hover over cards and cells.

Icon overlay

Adding new card properties with Quick add

You can use the Quick add field in the Add card window to quickly set properties. Check the Show 'Quick add' field check box at the bottom of the Add card window to make the Quick add field appear.

'Quick add' field

Then type the property names (not case-sensitive) and values separated by commas or semi-colons into the Quick add field. For example:

Add a card

Values that are not supplied are set to the default value for the property.

You can also use abbreviations. For example:

Add a card

You can even omit the property names and let Hyper Plan try to intelligently work them out from the values. For example:

Add a card

For date properties you can type 'today', 'tomorrow', the day of the week (e.g. 'monday') or the first 3 letters of the day of the week (e.g. 'mon').

Press the Return key when you are done or Escape to discard the changes.

Keyboard shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcuts are available:

Windows Mac OS X Action
Ctrl+A Cmd+A Select All (Cards pane/ Table pane)
Ctrl+B Cmd+B Open/close Layout Color Cards (Cards pane)
Ctrl+D Cmd+D Duplicate card(s) (Cards pane)
Ctrl+E Cmd+E Edit card(s) (Cards pane)
Ctrl+F Cmd+F Open/close Filter Cards (Cards pane)/Set focus to Filter Rows (Table pane)
Ctrl+Shift+F Full screen
Ctrl+G Cmd+G Open/Close Display Charts
Ctrl+I Cmd+I Add card
Ctrl+Shift+I Cmd+Shift+I Add property
Ctrl+J Cmd+J Open/close Appearance (Cards pane/ Charts pane)
Ctrl+K Cmd+K Open/close Show Card Properties (Cards pane)
Ctrl+L Cmd+L Toggle Left pane (Cards pane/ Charts pane)
Ctrl+M Cmd+M Minimize Main window
Alt+M Option+M Toggle magnify cursor (Cards pane)
Ctrl+N Cmd+N New plan
Ctrl+O Cmd+O Open plan
Ctrl+P Cmd+P Print
Ctrl+R Cmd+R Open/close Stored Views (Cards pane)
Ctrl+S Cmd+S Open/close Search Cards (Cards pane)
Ctrl+T Cmd+T Show/hide tool tips (Cards pane)
Ctrl+Shift+T Cmd+Shift+T Show/hide toolbar
Ctrl+U Cmd+U Duplicate plan
Ctrl+Y Cmd+Y Redo
Ctrl+Z Cmd+Z Undo
Ctrl+. Cmd+. Show/hide icon overlay (Cards pane)
Ctrl+, Cmd+, Preferences
Ctrl+= Cmd+= Zoom fit (Cards pane)
Ctrl++ Cmd++ Zoom in (Cards pane)
Ctrl+- Cmd+- Zoom out (Cards pane)
Ctrl+/ Cmd+/ Zoom to selected (Cards pane)
Ctrl+\ Cmd+\ Swap x/y (Cards pane)
Ctrl+[ Cmd+[ Previous stored view (Cards pane)
Ctrl+] Cmd+] Next stored view (Cards pane)
Ctrl+1 ... Ctrl+9 Cmd+1 .. Cmd+9 Choose numbered stored view (Cards pane)
Left arrow Left arrow Next chart (when zoomed in) (Charts pane)
Right arrow Right arrow Previous chart (when zoomed in) (Charts pane)
Ctrl+Left arrow Cmd+Left arrow Move focus to previous card in cell/previous column (Cards pane)
Ctrl+Right arrow Cmd+Right arrow Move focus to next card in cell/next column (Cards pane)
Ctrl+Up arrow Cmd+Up arrow Move focus to previous card in cell/previous row (Cards pane)
Ctrl+Down arrow Cmd+Down arrow Move focus to next card in cell/next row (Cards pane)
Ctrl+Tab Change front tab
Del, Backspace Del, Backspace Delete
Esc Esc Exit full screen mode
F1 F1 Help

Drag and drop

The following drag and drop operations are available:

Item From To Result Notes
plan (.tp) file Operating System Cards or Table panes plan is opened
.csv file Operating System Cards or Table panes .csv file is imported
image file Operating System card in Cards pane image added to card
image file Operating System Cards pane new card with image added
images files Operating System Images window images added to plan
other file Operating System card in Cards pane hyperlink to file added to card
other file Operating System Cards pane new card with hyperlink to file added
image Browser card in Cards pane image added to card doesn't work for all browsers
image Browser Cards pane new card with image added doesn't work for all browsers
hyperlink Browser card in Cards pane hyperlink added to card
hyperlink Browser Cards pane new card with hyperlink added
Cards pane column (row) header column (row) position another column (row) position change column (row) order
cards(s) Cards pane cell Cards pane cell X and Y properties of cards are updated Hold down the Shift key while dragging a column (row) of cards to a different column (row) to preserve card rows (columns)

Questions/Suggestions?

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