Keyboard shortcuts

Most things in the admin can be done without the mouse. You do not have to learn this page by heart: press ? anywhere and the admin shows exactly which keys work on the page you are looking at.

On a Mac, press Cmd where this page says Ctrl, and Option where it says Alt. The help dialog always shows the keys of your own keyboard.

The help dialog

Press ?, or click the keyboard button in the top bar (left of the bell). The dialog Keyboard shortcuts lists the keys in groups:

Group	What is in it
This page	Keys the open page adds, for example “New document”
Editing	Save, undo and redo, when an editor is open
Blocks, Fields	Adding a block or a field, when the page has one
Go to	Jumping to another section
Everywhere	Keys that always work

A row shown faded exists, but has nothing to act on right now: Redo when there is nothing to redo, for example. Press Esc or click outside the dialog to close it.

When keys work

Keys held with Ctrl or Alt also work while you type in a field. That is the point of them: you can save without leaving the text you are writing.
Single keys, such as n or /, wait until you leave the field. While you type in a text box, n is just the letter n. Click outside the field or press Tab to leave it first.
An open dialog takes over the keyboard. While a dialog is open, the page’s own keys rest. Esc closes the dialog.

Everywhere

Key	What it does
`?`	Open the keyboard shortcuts
`[`	Show or hide the sidebar
`]`	Show or hide the side panel (the content tree, the templates, the types, the menus, the workflows or the spaces)
`Esc`	Close the open sidebar or panel on a small screen

Going to a section

Press g, let go, then press a letter. If you wait too long between the two, g is forgotten and you start again.

Keys	Goes to
`g` then `d`	Dashboard
`g` then `c`	Content
`g` then `t`	Templates
`g` then `m`	Menus
`g` then `w`	Workflows
`g` then `h`	Webhooks
`g` then `y`	Content types
`g` then `a`	Assets
`g` then `l`	Activity
`g` then `s`	Settings
`g` then `n`	Notifications
`g` then `p`	Your profile

A section your role does not show in the sidebar has no key either.

In an editor

These keys work while you type.

Key	What it does	Where
`Ctrl+S`	Save	The document editor, the content type builder, the menu editor and the workflow editor
`Ctrl+Z`	Undo	The document editor
`Ctrl+Shift+Z`	Redo	The document editor
`Ctrl+Enter`	Publish	The document editor, when there is something to publish and you may publish
`Alt+N`	Add a block	A page with a Blocks field; see below
`Alt+N`	Add a field	The content type builder

Adding blocks and fields with the keyboard

Alt+N adds a block to the Blocks field you are working in: the one your cursor is in, or the first one on the page. If the field allows only one block type, the block is added straight away and its first field is ready for typing. Otherwise the list of block types opens.

In the content type builder, Alt+N opens the Add field list.

In these lists, and in the Which block? dialog of a block grid, each entry shows a number. Press 1 to 9 (or 0 for the tenth entry) to pick it.

In the visual editor, Alt+N adds a block after the one you selected, or at the end of the field you are looking at.

On a page

Key	What it does	Where
`/`	Jump to the search box	Content (before a document is open), Assets, Activity
`n`	New document (opens the list of types)	Content (before a document is open)
`n`	New template	Templates
`n`	New menu	Menus
`n`	New workflow	Workflows
`n`	New incoming or outgoing webhook, depending on the tab	Webhooks
`n`	New document type	Content types (the start page)
`b`	New block type	Content types (the start page)
`n`	New space (administrators only)	Settings, Spaces tab
`u`	Upload files	Assets
`Ctrl+A`	Select every asset	Assets
`Esc`	Clear the selection	Assets
`Del` or `Backspace`	Delete the selected assets	Assets
`r`	Mark everything read	Notifications

The “new” keys belong to the start page of each section, the page you see before you open a document, menu, workflow or type. Inside an editor, n does nothing, so you cannot start something new by accident.

Smaller helpers

In a dialog where you describe something for the AI to write, Ctrl+Enter starts it. See AI.
In a row of tabs, such as the ones under Settings, the left and right arrow keys move between tabs.
In an open dropdown menu, the up and down arrow keys move between the entries.
When the edge of a side panel has keyboard focus, the left and right arrow keys make the panel narrower or wider.