Keyboard shortcuts

A complete reference. On Mac the modifier is ⌘; on Windows and Linux it’s Ctrl.

Global

These work from anywhere in the app.

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl/⌘ + F	Open Search and focus the search box
Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + F	Open project-wide Find & Replace
Ctrl/⌘ + P	Open the Command Palette
Ctrl/⌘ + J	Toggle the “Ask the book” chat panel
Ctrl/⌘ + \	Toggle the sidebar open / closed
Ctrl/⌘ + /	Open this keyboard shortcut cheatsheet
Ctrl/⌘ + Z	Undo
Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + Z	Redo
Ctrl + Y	Redo (Windows alternative)

Closing panels

Every slide-in panel — “Ask the book”, AI tasks, and the Help drawer — closes the same three ways: press Esc, click anywhere outside it, or click the same nav entry / trigger button again. Clicking a different Help “?” while the drawer is open switches it to that article rather than closing it. Dialogs are deliberately different: they stay put until you use their own buttons, so an accidental click can’t lose your edits.

Undo and redo are disabled when the focus is inside the rich manuscript editor — the editor has its own undo history (Ctrl/⌘ + Z inside the editor undoes typing).

Tab rows, choices and colours

The same keys work on every page.

Keys	Action
Tab	Reaches a row of tabs (Settings, …) once, on the open tab
← / →, Home / End	Move between those tabs; Enter or Space opens the one you’re on
← / → in a row of choices (Appearance’s sizes and styles, a chapter’s Edit / Outline / Read switch, …)	Move between the choices; Enter or Space picks one, and typing a choice’s first letter picks it
Enter on a colour swatch	Opens its colours; Tab moves through them, Enter picks one, Esc closes
↓, Enter or Space on a ⋯ menu (AI Settings → a model’s actions)	Opens it on its first action (↑ on its last); ↑ / ↓, Home / End and typing an action’s first letter move; Enter picks; Esc closes

Editor

When the cursor is inside the manuscript editor.

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl/⌘ + B	Bold
Ctrl/⌘ + I	Italic
Ctrl/⌘ + U	Underline
Ctrl/⌘ + K	Insert link
Alt + M	Drop a marker on the selection (or edit the marker at the cursor)
Tab	Indent paragraph (or sink list item)
Shift + Tab	Outdent paragraph (or lift list item)
Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + Enter	Insert new scene boundary (continuous mode)
@	Open the entity-mention picker

Read mode (Chapters → Read)

Shortcut	Action
←	Previous chapter
→	Next chapter
Esc	Exit Read mode and return to Edit

Search view

When the search input has focus.

Shortcut	Action
Esc	Clear the query and any kind filters

Relations graph

Shortcut	Action
+	Zoom in
-	Zoom out
0	Reset zoom and pan
Esc	Clear pinned focus