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Keyboard Shortcuts

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Keyboard Shortcuts

Complete reference for every key, gesture, and URL parameter.


Navigation

Key / Action Effect
Space PageDown Next step or next slide
PageUp Previous step or previous slide
Home First slide
End Last slide

Presentation Mode

Key Effect
H Toggle all UI chrome (hide/show for presenting)
F or F11 Fullscreen (browser-native)

Presenter Tools

Key Effect
N Open/close Presenter Popup (second window with notes + timer)
Shift + N Toggle inline notes drawer
Shift + P Toggle split presenter view (deck top 58%, notes bottom 42%)

Search

Key Effect
/ or Cmd/Ctrl + F Open search overlay (full-text across all slides)
Escape Close search

Move Mode (M to toggle)

Key / Action Effect
M Enter/exit move mode
Click element Select element (blue outline)
Drag selected Translate (move)
Shift + Drag Scale element
Alt/Option + Drag Rotate element
Cmd/Ctrl + Click Select parent element
Cmd/Ctrl + Z Undo
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Z Redo
G Toggle 4×3 layout grid (A1–C4 zone labels)
Double-click text Enter inline text editing

Z-Order Buttons (HUD)

Button Effect
▲▲ Send selected element to front
Send forward one layer
Send backward one layer
▼▼ Send to back

Scrubber / Keyframe Buttons (HUD)

Control Effect
Drag scrubber Scrub animation timeline
◆ on timeline Click to seek to keyframe
◆ KF button Capture transform at current scrub time
✕ KF button Delete keyframe at current scrub time

Text Editing (double-click in Move Mode)

Key Effect
Enter New bullet (in a <li>)
Shift + Enter Line break within element
Backspace on empty bullet Delete bullet
Cmd/Ctrl + Enter Save and exit
Escape Cancel (revert changes)

Annotation Mode (A to toggle)

Key / Action Effect
A Enter/exit annotation mode
Click any element Add/edit note on that element
Click slide background Capture left:X%, top:Y% position coordinates
Export button (panel) Copy all annotations as markdown

Media Cycler Controls (on a cycler slide)

Key Effect
Shift + → Next image/video
Shift + ← Previous image/video
Shift + ↑ Resume auto-advance (if paused)

Mobile Gestures

Gesture Effect
Quick tap (< 15px, < 300ms) Advance step or slide
Swipe left Next slide
Swipe right Previous slide
👁 button (top right) Toggle UI chrome

URL Parameters

URL Mode
index.html View mode — clean, no edit chrome
index.html?edit Edit mode — all chrome, starts at Settings (slide 0)
index.html?edit#5 Edit mode starting at slide 5
index.html?view Explicit view mode (same as default)
index.html?vertical Vertical scroll — slides stack top-to-bottom
index.html?landscape Shows rotate-to-landscape prompt on portrait phones
index.html?notes Phone speaker companion view
index.html#N Jump to slide N (0-indexed; 0 = settings, 1 = cover)
index.html#0 or #00 Settings slide

Quick Mode Reference

You want to… Do this
Present cleanly H to hide chrome, to advance
Edit slide positions M to enter move mode, drag
Leave notes for AI A to annotate, Export to copy markdown
Open speaker notes N for popup, Shift+N for drawer
Change theme ?edit URL, Settings slide
Find a specific slide / to search
See all slides Click the grid icon (top right)
Hide a slide Grid → Ctrl/Cmd + Click thumbnail

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