Keyboard shortcuts
The handful worth learning. The command palette alone replaces most menu hunting.
Learn this one first
| ⌘K | Command palette — jump to any page, project, cue, version, task or channel |
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If you learn nothing else, learn this. It's faster than navigating to almost anything, and it searches your actual content rather than just the menus.
While you work
| ⌘N | In the Cue Log: add a cue. Elsewhere in the desktop app: new project |
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| ⌘F | Focus search — narrow the table before you edit |
| ⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z | Undo and redo — worth knowing before you reorder or bulk-edit |
| Enter | Commit a field edit |
| Esc | Cancel a field edit, or close the top layer |
Enter and Esc are the pair worth internalising: Esc backs out of the field you're editing without closing the whole popup behind it, so you can't lose a half-finished edit by pressing it once too often.
Getting help
| ⇧⌘/ | Open this guide |
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| ⌘, | Preferences |
Common questions
Do I need to memorise these?
No. Learn ⌘K and the rest can wait — the palette reaches everything the other shortcuts do.
Why does ⌘N do two different things?
In the Cue Log it adds a cue, because that's overwhelmingly what you want there. Anywhere else in the desktop app it starts a new project.
Do these work in the browser?
⌘K and the editing keys do. The ⇧⌘-number jumps are desktop menu accelerators; in the browser the palette covers the same ground.
Can I change them?
The desktop app's menu accelerators are defined by the app rather than being user-editable today.