When AI agents write most of the code, developer task management changes shape. Your day stops being long stretches of typing and becomes many short bursts of deciding — open a task, read the diff, check the preview, set a status, answer an agent's question, move on. Thirty times a day.
At that rhythm, interaction latency compounds. Three seconds of mouse travel per decision is a minute and a half of pure friction daily — and worse, it's a minute and a half of broken focus. So we built Veflow keyboard-first from the start, not as an audit at the end.
⌘K is the front door
The command palette fuzzy-searches tasks by identifier or title and projects by name, keeps your recently viewed tasks at the top, and carries the quick actions — new task, new project, jump to inbox, roadmap, settings. The honest test of a palette is whether you stop using the sidebar. Ours passed when we did.
⌘K: tasks, projects, and every quick action behind one keystroke.
Every keyboard shortcut, covered
- ? opens the shortcut reference anywhere — every binding, in one panel, so the system is learnable instead of folklore.
- ⌘Enter posts a comment or sends a message to an agent. Enter saves an inline edit — title, due date, estimate — and Esc cancels it.
- Every picker — status, priority, assignee, labels — is arrow keys + Enter. No reaching for the mouse to change a status.
- Esc closes whatever's on top, and focus returns to where you left it, so dialogs don't strand you.
None of these is individually clever. The value is coverage: once everything responds to the keyboard, your hands stop checking.
The same work serves screen readers
Keyboard reachability is also the backbone of accessibility — a control you can reach and operate without a mouse is most of what a screen-reader workflow needs, and we label the workspace chrome so it narrates sensibly rather than as a soup of unnamed buttons. We won't claim a completed formal audit; we will claim it's built in from the start, which is the cheap time to do it.
Tools for reviewing agent work are going to be judged on decision throughput. The keyboard is the highest-bandwidth input you own — a workspace that ignores it is leaving your speed on the table.