Mac calendar keyboard shortcuts that save time
Navigate months, create events, and search — all without touching the mouse.
If you check your calendar multiple times a day, keyboard shortcuts save real time. Instead of clicking through month arrows and date pickers, you press a key and you're there.
Apple Calendar shortcuts
These work in the built-in Calendar.app:
These are useful, but they only work when Calendar.app is in the foreground. You can't press a shortcut from another app to quickly check your schedule.
The shortcut Apple Calendar is missing
The most useful calendar shortcut would be a global one — press a key combination from any app and your calendar appears. Apple Calendar doesn't support this. You have to click the dock icon or use Spotlight to launch it.
Menu bar calendar apps solve this. They register global keyboard shortcuts that work from anywhere on your Mac.
Dot's keyboard shortcuts
Dot is designed to be keyboard-first. Here are the shortcuts:
The global shortcuts ( ⌘⇧C and ⌘⇧J) work from any app. The rest work when Dot's popover is open.
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