Additional shortcuts/hotkeys for features used while facilitating like lock/unlock

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Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 24, 2025
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I often use positioning and arranging tools as facilitation tools, especially hide/show and lock/unlock. I would love it if there were keyboard shortcuts for these tools so I could more seamlessly use them. For example, I sometimes use a “Deck of Cards” style activity and utilize Ctrl + Alt + [ to shuffle through the deck. I use hide/show and lock/unlock in similar ways, to quickly reveal something I wanted to stay out of sight at first or to quickly refocus the group. A shortcut would make this much smoother.

Pinned Reply By Ambar D

Hi @emilyann, thank you for this idea! I can certainly see how the addition of this keyboard shortcut would be helpful.

We encourage anyone else who’s interested in this to upvote this post and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

Ambar D

Lucid community team

Hi @emilyann, thank you for this idea! I can certainly see how the addition of this keyboard shortcut would be helpful.

We encourage anyone else who’s interested in this to upvote this post and share any additional details about your use case or what you’d like to see in this experience. For more information about how we manage feedback in this community, please take a look at this post:

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SMartin121

This would be a great feature enhancement and easy to implement. We already have hot keys for Grouping (CRTL+G), Locking hotkey suggestion: CRTL+L or CRTL+T. The reason CRTL+T would be helpful is because right handed users could toggle the lock with their left hand, speeding up their editing workflow.

Stretch goal: Allow for customized hotkeys. This would allow the user to customize their most frequently used tools to their liking.

Ambar D

Lucid community team

Hi @SMartin121, thanks for adding to this thread with your detailed feedback about this! The product teams are regularly reviewing feedback within this space as they research product enhancements and new features. Your comment and upvote are great methods to indicate your support for this to be implemented.

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Zach Fields

I would also find a shortcut for lock/unlock quite helpful. I’m shocked that it’s not a standard feature already.

Zuzia S

Lucid community team

Hey @Zach Fields I completely understand why this would be helpful. Thank you so much for adding your comment with extra feedback and for giving your upvote. This is the best way to show your support for this idea!

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Tristan Forrester

Also very surprised that Locking/Unlocking is not a core shortcut key. I’ve rebuilt a 12 month program in Lucid having built it in Mural and Miro first. And while Lucid is better in so many ways, this is by far the most irritating time suck in using this app.

It’s functionality provided by every other competing platform - please include it in Lucid!

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