Keyboard Shortcuts

Move through the app without leaving the keyboard. Global shortcuts use Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows / Linux). Workspace shortcuts always use Ctrl on every platform so they don't collide with browser tab switching.

Global

Workspace Navigation

Jump directly to any workspace:

The numbers run down the sidebar in order, so the key you want is the position you see.

Planner

Letter and digit keys are single presses with no modifier, the same convention as Flow Cytometry. Ctrl + 1 still switches workspaces while a plain 1 switches the Planner view. They pause while you're typing or a task is open.

On the Board:

The first press of J puts a ring on the top card of the first column. From there you can read straight down a column and Enter into anything worth opening, and closing the task puts you right back where you were.

On the Calendar:

Holding Alt (Option on Mac) while dragging sweeps a new task across time that already has tasks in it, which is the shared-planner way to double-book a slot. With a task open, Escape closes it, Cmd/Ctrl + Z undoes a field edit, and Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Z redoes it.

Notebook Editor

These work while editing a note, a protocol, or a task description:

Cmd/Ctrl + K opens the link dialog when text is selected or your cursor is inside an existing link; otherwise it opens Search as usual.

Shift + Up/Down selects text inside the block you're in, and once it reaches the top or bottom of that block it starts taking whole blocks. With blocks selected, Tab indents them together, typing replaces them, and a plain arrow key puts the cursor back. The same keys work in a task's description.

Alt/Option + Up/Down moves the block you're typing in without reaching for the mouse. On a protocol page it moves the whole step card, and a step that branches takes its cases with it, so one press steps a card clear over a fork instead of landing inside it.

Imaging

In the image viewer and in an image analysis:

Choosing a z-projection locks the slice keys, since a projection is the whole stack at once.

Flow Cytometry

When you're working in a flow analysis. Tool and view keys are single presses with no modifier, so Cmd/Ctrl + R still refreshes the page and Cmd/Ctrl + A still selects all. They never pick a tool or add a plot.

Tools

Plots and view

Editing

Focus and Overview need more than one plot, and Compare all files needs more than one file. C opens the comparison on the selected plot and closes it again. Arranging those files by a shared field (tube name, experiment, filename) is what turns the grid into a side-by-side comparison. Changes save automatically, so there's no manual save shortcut.

Figures

General

Single-key shortcuts pause whenever you're typing in a field and whenever a dialog box is open, which is why a letter that usually picks a tool just types itself while you're naming a gate.