Keyboard shortcuts

Press ? anywhere in the dashboard to see the full shortcut list, including any changes you have made.

General

• ?: show the keyboard shortcuts overlay
• H: open help and feedback
• M: toggle light and dark theme

Navigation

• Cmd+B or Ctrl+B: toggle the sidebar
• Cmd+K or Ctrl+K: focus search

Brief

• Cmd+I or Ctrl+I: close the action brief panel
• Esc: close the open panel or overlay

Triage

• A or 1: Act on it
• R or 2: Reference later
• X or 3: Archive
• U: undo the last triage decision
• Esc: close triage mode

Rebinding a shortcut

Some shortcuts can be changed and some cannot. Go to Settings, then Keyboard shortcuts. Editable shortcuts have an edit control beside them; fixed ones are labelled as fixed.

1. Open Settings and choose Keyboard shortcuts.
2. Click edit on the shortcut you want to change.
3. Press the key combination you want. Skiml records it as you press it.
4. Click Save shortcut.

If the combination is already taken, Skiml names the shortcut that is using it and asks you to pick another. Reset all to defaults puts everything back.

Three shortcuts are currently editable: open help and feedback, toggle the sidebar, and close the action brief panel. The rest are fixed, including all four triage keys, ?, the theme toggle, Cmd+K search, and Esc.

Extension shortcut

Opening the Skiml side panel from any web page uses Ctrl+Shift+S, or Command+Shift+S on a Mac. That one is a Chrome extension command rather than a Skiml setting, so you change it in Chrome at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

Where shortcuts do not fire

Shortcuts are ignored while you are typing in a text field, so a ? in the search box searches for a question mark instead of opening the overlay.