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

/ puts your cursor in the search box on screen, ready for a new query. That is the filter box of an open dialog box, or the page's own search when no dialog box is open. Where there's no search box in reach, it opens Search. In a note it inserts a block.

Workspace Navigation

The numbers run down the sidebar in order.

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 J walks down the column and Enter opens the focused card.

On the Calendar:

Holding Alt (Option on Mac) while dragging sweeps a new task across time that already has tasks in it, so you can 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 box when text is selected or your cursor is inside an existing link. Otherwise it opens Search.

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. On a protocol page it moves the whole step card, and a step that branches takes its cases with it, so one press moves a card past a fork and all its cases.

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.

While you mark up an image, the letter keys pick tools, with no modifier, using the same keys the cytometry workspace uses for the tools the two share. Each one matches a button in the Annotate panel.

While a mark is selected the arrow keys nudge it. With nothing selected they page through images and slices. Escape, Delete and the arrows also work on the marks in a figure panel, a plot tree, and the markup editor.

A pasted mark keeps the styling and the text of the one it came from. The same arrow or label goes onto the next image, or onto a plot tree, as many times as you paste it, and stays available until you copy something else. Counters take the next number in the sequence. With a mark selected, Cmd/Ctrl + C copies the mark, and with text highlighted it copies the text.

Flow Cytometry

These work 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.

Tools

Plots and view

Editing

Cmd/Ctrl + C puts a picture of the selected plot on your system clipboard and holds its type, channels, scales, and colors for Cmd/Ctrl + V. That draws the same view on a gate's population when a gate is selected, and on the selected plot's own population otherwise. With text selected, Cmd/Ctrl + C copies the text.

Focus and Overview need more than one plot, and Compare all files needs more than one file. Shift + Left/Right steps through the loaded samples, the same move as the arrows on the sample bar. C opens the comparison on the selected plot and closes it again. Arrange those files by a shared field (tube name, experiment, filename) to compare them side by side. Changes save automatically.

Figures

General

Single-key shortcuts pause whenever you're typing in a field and whenever a dialog box is open, so a letter that usually picks a tool goes into the name while you're naming a gate.