Keyboard shortcuts

Press ? anywhere in Soleil Clusters to see the shortcut list without leaving the page. The essentials are V to select, H or Space to pan, N for a note, A for an arrow, Cmd-K to search everything, Cmd-Z to undo, and Shift-1 to fit the whole board on screen.

Updated November 9, 2026

Press ? on any canvas to see this list in the app, where it shows the right modifier key for your platform. On Windows and Linux, every ⌘ below is Ctrl.

Tools

With a Japanese, Chinese or Korean input method, Enter picks the word from the candidate list first. It never sends a message, saves a title or starts a new card until the word is settled.

Navigate

⌘K is the fastest way to get anywhere. It searches cluster names, card contents, notes, docs and tags, and it also runs commands — "share", "trash", "theme", "invite" all work as typed input.

Sidebar

In the sidebar: its cluster tree and its Files. Tab reaches the rows; these act on the focused one.

Edit

Undo is per-session and per-board. It undoes your own edits, not a collaborator's — in a shared board, undo that could revert someone else's work would be worse than no undo at all.

Grids

With one grid selected and a box in it clicked:

View

Zoom and pan are remembered per cluster. Reopening a board puts you back where you were rather than at the origin.

Swapping what the wheel does

Settings → Appearance → Scroll wheel. Scrolling pans by default and ⌘-scroll zooms; set it to Zoom and they trade places, so a plain scroll zooms at the pointer and ⌘, Alt or Shift pans. ⌘K → "scroll wheel" flips it without opening settings.

Which one is right depends on what you came from — PureRef and Miro zoom on scroll, Figma and Milanote pan — which is why it is a setting and not a default we picked for you.

Pinching a trackpad zooms in either mode, and always will: a pinch reaches the browser as a Ctrl-scroll, so Ctrl means zoom whatever else is configured.

Moving with W A S D

Settings → Appearance → Move with W A S D. Off until you turn it on. Then hold W, A, S or D to move up, left, down or right — two at once go diagonally — and hold Q to zoom in or E to zoom out, around the middle of the screen. Add ⇧ to go faster at either, or move and zoom at once. Letting go eases to a stop.

It is off by default because two of those keys already have a job: A picks the Arrow tool and D picks Free-draw. While movement is on they move you instead, and both tools stay one click away on the tool rail. ⌘A and ⌘D (select all, duplicate) work as before.

It goes by where the keys sit rather than the letters printed on them, so on an AZERTY keyboard it is Z, Q, S and D to move and A and E to zoom, and the same two tools give way. Like the rest of Appearance, the setting follows your account to every device.

Files

On the full Files page.

Audio

Enter rather than Space on the canvas, because Space is already the pan modifier there. In Files it isn't, so auditioning a pack is ↓ and Space — and when a clip finishes, the next one starts on its own.

Both canvas keys only fire when exactly one audio card is selected; otherwise they fall through to whatever else is listening.

Player

While the review player is open, it has the keyboard — nothing reaches the board behind it. Press ? in the player for this list.

Transport

Marking

View

Review

Notes

In a note, - , > and backticks stay as you type them, and there are no quote or code keys: lists come from the note's toolbar.

Document

These apply inside a document, not on the canvas.

Toolbars

Every toolbar is one Tab stop, and the arrow keys move inside it: the tool rail, the bar a note, a drawing or a shape brings up, a document's toolbar, and the bar over selected files.

In a document or a note, Tab belongs to the text (it indents), so ⌥F10 is the way from the words to the toolbar, and Esc takes you back with the caret where you left it. In a field inside a toolbar, like a font size, ← and → move the caret, and step out of the field at either end. A screen reader hears each control by its name, whether a toggle is on, and the shortcut it has, if any.

Gestures

Not keys, but worth knowing:

• Double-click empty canvas opens an add menu at your cursor.
• Right-click anything for its full menu — cards, groups, and the canvas background each have their own.
• Hold Alt while dragging to bypass snapping.
• Hold ⌥ while dragging files to another cluster to copy them instead of moving them — Ctrl on Windows.
• Paste a URL onto the canvas to create a link card that unfurls its preview.
• Drag files from your desktop straight onto the canvas.

Machine-readable: /docs/keyboard-shortcuts.md · /llms.txt
What changed and when: /changelog