Power User and Productivity

Keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet

Every keyboard shortcut Gleo supports, in one printable look-up — plus when each one is and isn't active.

Gleo's keyboard surface is deliberately small — a few high-leverage shortcuts you'll use every day, plus the standard form-and-modal keys you already know. This page is the canonical look-up. Keep it open in a tab while you're learning the product, then forget it and trust your hands.

Mac users: ⌘ = Command. Windows / Linux users: substitute Ctrl for ⌘ throughout.

Global shortcuts

These work from anywhere in the product.

Shortcut	Action	Notes
⌘K	Open the command palette	The "do anything" surface. See Command palette.
Esc	Close any open modal, drawer, or palette	Standard.
Tab / Shift+Tab	Move focus between form fields and controls	Standard.
Enter	Submit forms; activate the focused control	Standard.

Command palette shortcuts

Once the palette is open (⌘K):

Shortcut	Action
Type	Live-filter the action list.
↑ / ↓	Move the highlight up and down through the filtered list.
Enter	Run the highlighted action.
Esc	Close the palette without running anything.

Playbook Studio canvas shortcuts

Active when you're working on the visual canvas in Playbook Studio — and your focus isn't inside a text input.

Shortcut	Action	Notes
G	Add a goal sticky to the selected session	The single most-used canvas shortcut. See the gotcha below.
Click + drag	Reposition phases and sessions on the canvas	Mouse / trackpad, not strictly a keyboard shortcut.

The G hotkey only fires when you have a session selected and your cursor focus is not in a text input. If you press G while editing a session title or description, you'll just type the letter "G". Click outside the input first, then press G. See Goals and the G hotkey for the full pattern.

Runtime session shortcuts

Active during a live session in the Session planner.

Shortcut	Action
Esc	Close the active drawer (Tools, Tasks, Questions, Artefacts, Notes).
Tab	Move between agenda items in the planner.
Standard form shortcuts	Within Notes, the question composer, and any inline editor.

Standard form shortcuts

These behave the way you'd expect them to in any web app — they're listed here so you don't have to wonder.

Shortcut	Action
Tab	Next field.
Shift+Tab	Previous field.
Enter	Submit / confirm.
Esc	Cancel / close.
⌘+A	Select all (within the focused field).
⌘+Z / ⌘+Shift+Z	Undo / redo (within an editor).

A note on context

Gleo's shortcut surface is intentionally context-scoped rather than global. The G hotkey only does anything in the Studio canvas; the palette's playbook-scoped actions only appear when you're inside a playbook. This keeps the shortcut model small and predictable — you don't need to memorise different bindings for different surfaces — but it does mean a key that does nothing in one place may do something elsewhere.

If a shortcut isn't working, the most likely reason is that you're either (a) in a text input, or (b) on a surface where that shortcut isn't defined.

Tips & pitfalls

Print this page. The shortest path to muscle memory is having the cheat sheet open while you work. After a week or two, you won't need it.

Click outside an input before pressing a single-letter shortcut. Single-letter shortcuts (currently just G, but more will come) are silently swallowed by text inputs. The fix is always the same: click on the canvas background, then press the key.

When in doubt, reach for ⌘K. The palette is the "I forgot the shortcut" answer for almost everything else. Type what you want; let it find the action.