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Swipe actions
Swiping a thing left or right runs an action straight away, without opening a bar or a menu.
Why you'd care
A swipe is the cheapest gesture on a phone. Binding it to the action you perform most turns a two-tap job into a flick.
The defaults
- Swipe right completes the thing.
- Swipe left selects it, and the selection bar slides up so you can act on it or pick more. See select many things at once.
Both work for every account.
Web, Mac, Windows, and Linux
Swipes are a touch gesture, so they are not on the web or desktop. Instead, click the circle on the right edge of a thing to select it, click its checkbox to complete it, or press a keyboard shortcut while you are editing it.
Changing them
Each direction is set on its own, in the phone app under Settings → Lists & things → Swipe left action and Swipe right action. Changing them is part of Twos Plus. Plus
You can bind either direction to complete, delete, move, copy, info, indent, outdent, tag, star, reminder, note, quote, code, memory, focus, Google search, Ask AI, or select.
If you change one, the usual winner is move, because moving is the most common action that otherwise takes a menu.
Turning gestures off
Setting a direction to none disables that swipe.
Setting both to none, along with pull-down, gives you an app with no gestures at all. Some people strongly prefer that, particularly if you trigger swipes by accident while scrolling. It is a supported configuration rather than a degraded one.
Going further
Left-handed mode changes which swipe is comfortable. If you have changed one, revisit the other. See left-handed mode and haptics.
Destructive actions on a swipe are risky. Delete on a swipe will eventually be triggered by accident. Trash makes that recoverable, but it is still worth avoiding.
Tips
- Bind one direction to something destructive-free and useful, like move or tag.
- If you keep swiping by mistake while scrolling, set one direction to none rather than living with it.