Multi-select and bulk editing

A task list in Orsane is a grid: rows are tasks, columns are attributes. You can select a row, a handful of rows, or every row in the view, and then change an attribute in one move. There’s no separate bulk-edit mode. Just pick your tasks, click the cell you want to change, and the change applies to all of them.

Selecting tasks

Same shortcuts as in a spreadsheet:

Click a row — select just that task. Click it again to deselect.
Command + Click Control + Click — toggle a task in or out of the current selection without losing the others.
Shift + Click Shift + Click — extend the selection from the last task you clicked to the one you just clicked, picking up everything in between.
Command + A Control + A — select every task in the current view.

Bulk-editing attributes

With multiple tasks selected, click any editable cell on one of them and the change applies to every selected task at once. That works for:

Status
Priority
Assignee
Due date
Lists — add or remove a list membership across the selection.
Custom attributes with editor cells (text, number, duration, date — see Attributes).

For example: pick ten tasks with Shift + Click Shift + Click , click any one of their Status cells, choose In progress, and all ten move at once.

If you click a cell on a task that isn’t part of the current selection, only that task changes. The selection stays put.

Nesting tasks with Tab

With a few rows selected, Tab Tab turns them into subtasks of the row above:

Tab Tab with rows selected — makes them subtasks of the previous top-level task in the list.
Shift + Tab Shift + Tab with subtasks selected — pops them back out to the top level.

Nesting only works in the main list.

Drag-and-drop

Drag a row that’s part of the selection and the whole selection moves with it. Drag a row that isn’t selected and only that one moves; the rest of the selection is left alone.

Deleting in bulk

Select the tasks you want to remove and press Backspace Delete — Orsane asks you to confirm, then deletes every selected task at once. The right-click Delete task menu item does the same when the row is part of the selection. Right-click a row that isn’t selected and only that one gets deleted; the rest of the selection stays put.

What stays single-task

Edit title — titles are per-task; the row context menu’s Edit title edits only that row.