--- title: Keyboard shortcuts (every binding, and how to change them) (part 2) --- # Keyboard shortcuts (every binding, and how to change them) (part 2) ## What it is This is part 2 of the [Keyboard shortcuts](keyboard-shortcuts.md) page. It covers the shortcuts you use while working in a session — starting, stopping and steering one, driving the message box — and the quick-response and AI bindings that sit beside them. ## Where to find it Same list, same place: **Settings → Keyboard shortcuts**, where every binding here can be rebound. This part is the reference copy. ## How it behaves ### Common shortcuts These are the defaults — rebind any of them in Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts. ### Sessions and composer | Shortcut | Action | | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **N** or **Ctrl+T** | Launch a new session in the current project. **Exception:** while the Quick Scratch Pad overlay (Ctrl+Shift+S) is open, Ctrl+T instead saves the current note and resets the editor to a blank fresh draft — the overlay stays open and the global new-session is suppressed | | **Ctrl+Space** (global; **⌘⌥L** on macOS) | Open the Quick Launch floating composer — type a prompt and submit to start a new session. Works even when Omniscio is in the background. macOS ships **Cmd+Option+L** by default (Cmd+Space is Spotlight) | | **Ctrl+Shift+Space** (global) | Open Quick Launch on the **KMS Find Note** tab — fuzzy-jump to any KMS note by title. Works even when Omniscio is in the background; only registers when KMS is enabled. Rebindable as the "KMS quick find" System-wide hotkey | | **Alt+Space** (global) | Open Quick Launch on the **Task** tab — jot down a to-do without leaving what you're doing. Works even when Omniscio is in the background. Rebindable as the Task tab's System-wide hotkey. (Windows uses Alt+Space for the window system-menu and PowerToys Run uses it too — whichever registers first wins.) | | **Alt+E** (global) | Open Quick Launch on the **Email** tab — fire off a quick note to a saved recipient without leaving what you're doing. Works even when Omniscio is in the background; only registers when Quick Email is enabled. Rebindable as the Email tab's System-wide hotkey. | | **Ctrl+Alt+M** (global) | Open **Supermail** in its own separate window (the pop-out) from anywhere — even when Omniscio is in the background. Only registers when Supermail is enabled. Rebindable as the "Supermail window" System-wide hotkey. | | **Ctrl+Shift+S** (global) | Raise Omniscio and open the rich **Quick scratchpad** overlay (note list, pop-out, settings) from anywhere — even when Omniscio is in the background. This is the single scratchpad hotkey; the stripped-down floating-capture box that used to be on this key was removed. | | **Enter** | Send the current draft (default Submit key) | | **Shift+Enter** | Insert a newline instead of sending | | **Ctrl+Enter** | Send (only if you set Submit key to "Ctrl+Enter" in Settings → Sessions) | | **Esc** | Interrupt a **running** session with a safety **double-tap** — the first Esc shows a "Press Esc again to interrupt" hint, and a second Esc within ~1.5s actually stops it, so a single stray (or held) press can never kill a run. Esc clears anything else open first: it closes an open menu (only the menu — the session stays open), leaves a focused text box, closes an open file preview, then deselects a non-running session — interrupt is the last rung, so it never steals Esc from those | | **Ctrl+W** or **E** | Archive the active session (`closePanel` action — labeled "Archive session"). When an **inbox item** is open instead of a session, the same key dismisses that item — an approval, or an in-pane detail pane (a held **Sentry** issue, a fired alarm, a PR / Jira / Linear / Granola / Notion / RSS / Telegram row) — the keyboard equivalent of that row's X / middle-click. And when the **AutoHotKey editor** is the open surface (the AHK project with a `.ahk` file selected, or no session yet), the same key closes the editor and returns you to the main inbox. And when a **modal or slide-out panel** is open — an open dialog (the search box, a confirm / editor / settings dialog, the command palette, an image preview, a setup wizard), the file / Markdown editor preview, or a side drawer (a meeting / integration detail) — **Ctrl+W** (like **Esc**) closes THAT instead of archiving the session behind it. In a **popped-out session window** (Pop Out) Ctrl+W is different again: it opens a close-confirm modal — **Close window** (keep the session running) / **Close & stop session** / **Cancel** — rather than archiving; see [detached-session-window.md](detached-session-window.md) | | **P** | Pause / unpause the active session — on an archived session, deposits it into `paused` (un-archive + pause atomically; bulk mixed selections handle archived + active arms in parallel) | | **H** | Snooze the active session — opens the Snooze Palette; on an archived session, un-archives into `ended` first so the snooze flow can stamp `snoozedUntil`. When an **inbox item** is open instead of a session, the same key opens the Snooze Palette for that open row — an approval, or an in-pane detail (a held **Sentry** issue / fired alarm / PR / Jira / Linear / Granola / Notion / RSS / Telegram / SMS / drip) — the keyboard equivalent of right-click → "Snooze…" | | **C** | **Continue / Check in** the active session — continues a stalled / ended / errored session, continues a session parked on a login-expired **"re-authenticate"** screen or on a **usage-limit ("rate limit")** screen, or checks in on a session waiting on its 30-min auto-wait timeout (whichever banner is showing). Mirrors the composer Continue / Check in button exactly; sends nothing when neither banner is showing. Like every single-key shortcut it fires only when the message box is **not** focused — so a paused / stalled / errored / ended (or re-authenticate- / rate-limit-parked) session lands your cursor on the conversation and **C** continues on entry; click the box (or press **R**) to type, after which **C** types a literal `c` | | **W** | **Keep waiting** — re-arm a silent 30-minute wait on a session that hit its auto-wait timeout (the "Keep waiting 30 min" button), without messaging the agent; no-op otherwise. Like **C**, it fires only when the message box is **not** focused; inside the box it types a literal `w` | | **Y** or **Enter** | **Allow** the tool-permission request showing above the composer ("Claude wants to run…" / "…access a sensitive file"). Mirrors the card's Allow button exactly, and both keys run the same handler behind the same single in-flight latch, so a keypress racing a click can never answer twice. Silent no-op when no card is showing. **Enter** stands down whenever a button or link already has focus — so Tab-ing to **Deny** and pressing Enter *denies* — and inside the message box Enter still sends your message. One caveat to this table's "rebind any of them": **Y** is rebindable, **Enter** is not — it is fixed and never appears in Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts, because a rebindable Enter would swallow Enter app-wide on every focused button and link. It is listed instead in the **keyboard overlay** (the `?` shortcut list) under Session | | **X** | **Deny** that same request — mirrors the card's Deny button; silent no-op when no card is showing. Inside the message box it types a literal `x` | | **T** | Tag the active session — opens the Tag picker palette | | **R** | Focus the composer textarea so you can type a reply | | **Q** | Focus the Question Widget (if one is showing) | | **Ctrl+E** | Toggle the File Explorer panel for the active session — silent no-op when no session is selected (Inbox / Settings views) | | **V** | Toggle Plain Speak ⇄ Original on the latest agent message that has a Plain Speak rewrite — silent no-op when no eligible message exists; doesn't fire while typing in the composer (or any input / textarea / contenteditable) | | **Ctrl+Shift+Q** | Open the first link in the agent's most recent reply, in the active reading pane (drip / alert / digest / weekly summary / scheduled message), on the task row you're focused on in **Tasks**, or the first web link in the **Supermail** email you're reading — same routing as a real click. Hovering that first link reveals this shortcut as a tooltip (except inside a Supermail email, whose body renders in a sandboxed frame) | | **Ctrl+Z** | Undo your last session action (archive, pause, snooze, move, rename, close). Reverses it even with the cursor in any text field that holds a draft — until you start typing, after which Ctrl+Z undoes your text instead (never your draft). Press repeatedly to walk back through recent actions. (Bare **Z** is no longer bound — it used to undo from outside a text box, but a stray "z" could revert silently; rebind it in Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts if you want it back.) | | **Ctrl+Y** | Redo your typing — puts back text you just removed with **Ctrl+Z**, in the message box or any text field (**Ctrl+Shift+Z** does the same). | ### Quick-response and AI | Shortcut | Action | | --------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Alt+1** / **Alt+2** / **Alt+3** | Send the 1st / 2nd / 3rd AI suggestion | | **Alt+S** | Open the snippet (quick reply) picker | | **1**–**9** (picker open) | Fire the quick reply showing that number badge — honors its auto-submit setting. Positional by default; pin a fixed number per reply in its editor. Fires only when the picker's search box is empty. Toggle: Settings → Quick Replies → Number-key quick send | | **Alt+Z** | Send the configured Zap quick-reply text — rebind via Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts → Session → "Send quick reply" (the duplicate per-snippet input previously under Settings → Snippets was consolidated into the main Keyboard Shortcuts panel) | | **Ctrl+U** | Open the file attachment picker | | **Ctrl+Shift+L** | Send Later — schedule the current draft for future delivery (a **session composer** key; the **Quick Launch → Task** tab uses the SAME chord for its Send Later picker, which files the task snoozed — consistent, and conflict-free since the Task tab is its own window) | | **Ctrl+Shift+P** | Open the **Command Palette** (Quick Launch) — one searchable box to find and run any main app action; with the universal command palette enabled it also reaches every navigation hub and setting | | **Ctrl+Shift+K** | Open the **Super Prompts** picker (moved here from Ctrl+Shift+P when the Command Palette took that chord — rebind either under Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts) | | **Alt+V** | Start a voice command (push-to-talk) | ## Related Part 1 — what the shortcuts are, and the one-handed and training options — is the [Keyboard shortcuts](keyboard-shortcuts.md) page. The navigation, search, display and app-specific bindings are in [part 3](keyboard-shortcuts-part-3.md), and how rebinding works in [part 4](keyboard-shortcuts-part-4.md).