While most bug and issue tracking systems sport fancy and capable UIs, JetBrains' latest product, YouTrack, focuses on making it easy to find bugs and issues by navigating mainly with the keyboard. YouTrack is a feature-rich bug tracker, but it follows a philosophy that developers are more comfortable with the keyboard when it comes to searching for issues directly from within an IDE.

YouTrack's UI sports mainly a single text entry box, similar to Google's search box, and makes searching for and finding relevant issues easier by context-sensitive suggestion of search term completion, assisting the user during typing:

YouTrack provides a single search box to find issues by their attributes and/or with full-text search. That's essentially all you need to search for any issues! No checkboxes, combo boxes, drop-down lists or whatever else usually bloats your screen space when you're trying to filter out existing issues...

YouTrack provides query completion in the search box to help you choose appropriate keywords and values. More than that, it inserts symbols such as hash marks, colons and curly braces where required.

Similarly, YouTrack allows you to modify the status of an existing issue from the same search box:

The Command window lets you modify attributes of an issue or a set of issues using commands similar to search queries. For example, you can:

• Assign issues to a user.
• Change type or priority level of issues.
• Associate issues with tags.
• Set dependencies between issues.

You can use special wiki markup in issue description, including links to other issues or external resources, code blocks, headers and text formatting.

What do you think of JetBrains' minimalist approach to issue tracking?