Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts let you switch tools and run common actions without reaching for the palette. The canvas tools all sit on single keys, so you can move between selecting, panning, and pointing in a single tap, and a built-in shortcuts dialog lists everything in one place.

The shortcuts dialog

A Shortcuts button lives in the editor footer, next to the Settings gear. Opening it brings up a reference card of every binding the editor knows, grouped by purpose, so you never have to memorise the full set.

The most useful canvas-tool keys are:

• V to Select (the default on desktop), with S kept working as a legacy alias.
• H for the Hand (pan) tool, the default on touch viewports.
• K for the Laser pointer, for drawing attention while you present.
• E for the Eraser, to delete elements by pressing or dragging over them.
• Z to toggle Zen mode on and off, with Escape to exit it.

The shortcuts dialog stays available in every role, so view-only visitors can see the same reference.

Turning shortcuts off

Single-key shortcuts are handy, but they are not for everyone. You can switch them off entirely from the Settings dialog, which is reached from the gear button in the editor footer.

When shortcuts are turned off, the editor stops responding to the single-key bindings, so a stray key press never changes your tool unexpectedly. Like every other preference, this choice is stored per device for guests and synced across devices once you sign in, so you only set it once.

The editor is also careful about context: even with shortcuts on, typing into a text label or an input never triggers a tool key. A z typed into a label is just a z, never a jump into Zen mode.