Keyboard shortcuts

If you spend a lot of time in the inbox, the keyboard is the quickest way through it. Single keys move you through the list and the conversation, and take a conversation (I got this), archive it, reply to it or set it aside.

You don't need to memorise this page. Press ? anywhere in Jelly to see the main shortcuts in a small panel, and ? again to hide it.

A few things are true of every shortcut here:

• They pause while you type. In a text box or the editor, a letter types that letter, so pressing e in a reply types an e and archives nothing. The send keys and Esc still work there.
• Letters are lower-case. With Shift or Caps Lock on, the letter keys do nothing. Buttons show their key as a capital, such as Archive E, but it's the plain letter you press.
• This page writes ⌘, the Mac key. On Windows or Linux, press Ctrl instead.
• A key only does what its button can. If a button isn't on the screen, its key does nothing. For example, i does nothing on a conversation somebody already has.

A quick way through Brand new

Press j to move to the next conversation, o to open it, i to take it, then r to reply. When you're done, Esc brings you back to the list with the highlight where you left it, ready for the next j. If you press e to archive instead, Jelly takes you to the inbox.

Moving around

Nothing is highlighted until you press j or k, and the first press highlights the first item. When you open a conversation and come back, the highlight is on the row you opened.

In a conversation, j and k also stop on Show earlier messages when older messages are hidden. Press Enter there to show them. The highlight moves to the first one.

From a conversation, l moves into the conversation sidebar. There, j and k move through that person's other conversations, and o opens one.

/ selects any search already in the field, so what you type replaces it.

Taking, archiving and setting aside

These keys act on the highlighted row in a list. If no row is highlighted, they act on the conversation you're reading.

When you archive from a list, the row leaves and the highlight moves to the next one, so you can press e again and again to clear rows one after another. When you archive or set aside a conversation you have open, Jelly takes you to the inbox, and the notice there has an Undo.

z also takes back a reply while its Sending… notice is showing. Once a notice has gone, z does nothing.

Selecting several conversations

e is the only key that acts on all the ticked rows. The other actions for them are in the bar that appears above the list, and i still acts on the highlighted row only.

Writing and sending

A reply has two send buttons, Send and Send & archive, and so does a forward: Forward and Forward & go back. ⌘Enter presses the first one and ⌘⇧Enter the second. You choose which comes first on your preferences, and each button shows its key.

⌘Enter also submits any other form your cursor is in, such as a field in Settings.

Formatting a reply or a note

You can also start a list as you type: * (a star and a space) at the start of a line starts a bulleted list, and 1. a numbered one.

Menus

• In a long menu, such as Assign on a large team, type to filter it. Enter picks the first match.
• In a long drop-down list in a form, type to search, use ↑ and ↓ to move, and Enter to pick.
• While you're renaming something in place, such as a conversation's subject, Esc cancels.

Getting out with Esc

Esc steps out one level each time you press it. Depending on what's open, it closes a menu, the form you're writing in, the conversation sidebar or the selection. When nothing else is open, it closes the conversation and takes you back to the list you came from.

Pressing Esc while you're writing a reply or a note folds the form away without losing your words. Press r or c to carry on.

Going to a list

Press g and a small Go to… panel opens. Press one more key to go to that list:

Esc, any other key, or a click elsewhere closes the panel without going anywhere. The keys for Scheduled and My Bookmarks work even when those lists are empty and missing from the left column.