Keyboard shortcuts

Changing a shortcut #

Open Preferences → Shortcuts, click the key beside an action and press the combination you want. Conflicts are flagged as you assign them, and Reset puts the defaults back.

On a Mac, Ctrl below means ⌘.

Designing on boards and pages #

These work on a board in Characters, Setting and your own tabs, and on a page in the Design tab. They are held while you drag or click; a small note by the pointer says what a held key is doing. On a Mac, Ctrl means ⌘ and Alt means Option.

The pen #

The pen draws on a board (the Pen button in the toolbar) and on a Design page. Click for a corner, drag for a curve, and click the first point to close the shape.

Formatting #

Everything on the toolbar has a key. Clearing formatting is the pair worth learning: one strips the selection back to plain text, the other resets the whole paragraph.

History #

Undo and redo work per scene, so moving between scenes does not lose your place in either stack.

Navigation #

Move between scenes without leaving the keyboard. Order follows the outline, so it walks across chapters and acts as you go.

Write #

Making a scene, showing and hiding the panels around the manuscript, and getting in and out of focus mode.

App #

Search, replace, compile and print — the things that reach past the scene you are in.

Outline #

The outline is fully keyboard-driven: move the selection, open and close nodes, move nodes themselves, and make new ones without reaching for a button.