Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts are shown for macOS (Cmd). On Windows and Linux, use Ctrl wherever you see Cmd. Every menu key is also shown in the menu itself.

Menu commands

Shortcut	Action
Cmd+N	New Project
Cmd+O	Open Project
Shift+Cmd+N	New Card, in the deck you’re in
Cmd+S	Save. Storyletter saves as you go, so this flushes anything still pending
Cmd+,	Project Settings
Cmd+Z / Shift+Cmd+Z	Undo / Redo
Cmd+D	Duplicate the selection
Cmd+F	Find, across the project
Cmd+Alt+F (Ctrl+H on Windows and Linux)	Replace text across the project: the Find window’s Replace tab
Cmd+T	The Board
Shift+Cmd+R	Review Feedback (toggle the review walk)
F8 / Shift+F8	Next / Previous Feedback
Shift+Cmd+C	Coverage
Shift+Cmd+B	Publish Bundle
Cmd+1	Show or hide the navigator
Ctrl+Cmd+← / Ctrl+Cmd+→	Back / Forward through the documents you’ve visited (Alt+← / Alt+→ on Windows and Linux)
Cmd+[	Up a Level: from a card to its deck, a deck to its box, a box to the project

Undo and redo reverse any edit to any kind of item, through the same version-control path a save takes, not just the text field you’re in.

In the editor

Key	Action
Esc	In a field, leave the field. In a card, go back to its deck
↑ / ↓	In a card, step to the previous or next card in the deck
Cmd+↑ / Cmd+←	Up a Level, the same as Cmd+[ (when no field has the cursor)

On a canvas

These work on a deck’s node canvas and on a box’s map. They’re the keys other node and 3D tools use, so they’re plain letters, not chords.

Key	Action
F	Fit the selection
Home	Fit everything
L	Arrange by links (node canvas only): the selection, or every card when nothing is selected
Cmd+0	Back to 100%
Cmd+= / Cmd+-	Zoom in and out
Cmd+A	Select everything that isn’t locked
Delete / Backspace	Remove the selection
Hold Space	Pan, whatever tool you’re holding
Enter	Finish the shape you’re drawing
Esc	Back out (see below)

Cmd+F is not bound on a canvas: it’s Find, app-wide.

Escape is layered

Esc does one thing at a time, and always undoes the most recent thing first. On a canvas mid-draw it abandons the drawing; with a marquee up it drops the marquee; with a selection it clears the selection. In a tool window it closes an open panel before it closes the window - on the Board that runs all the way through the play: a chosen outcome, then the open card, then the snapshot panel, and only then the window.

In the Find window

Key	Action
↓ / ↑	Move through the hits (Find and Property tabs)
Enter	Go to the selected hit
Esc	Close

The Replace tab has no list keys: each row carries its own Replace button, and Replace all asks you to confirm before it rewrites anything.