Keyboard shortcuts

Alltra has one global keyboard shortcut, a small number of keys that work inside a particular control, and two more that are live only while the Performance dashboard is being edited. This page is the whole list rather than a selection from it, so if something is not here it does not exist yet and you are not missing a cheat sheet.

The one that works everywhere

• ⌘K · Ctrl+K — opens the command palette, from any page in any of the apps. The two are interchangeable, so the Windows chord works on a Mac and the reverse is true too.

It is bound at the window rather than to a particular page, which is what makes it reliable: it works with the sidebar collapsed and with a drawer open, and no page has to opt in. It also takes the keystroke away from the browser, so nothing else answers it.

Inside the palette

Once it is open the focus is already in the search box, so you can start typing immediately. Everything below works from there without reaching for the mouse.

• Type anything — filters the list as you go. There is no need to press anything first.
• ↓ · ↑ — move down and up the results, scrolling the list as needed.
• Home · End — jump to the first and the last result.
• Enter — opens whatever is highlighted and closes the palette.
• ⌘Backspace · Ctrl+Backspace — clears the query without closing, for when you want to start the search again.
• Esc — closes it. Clicking the background does the same, and focus returns to wherever it was before you opened it.

The palette is organised into tabs — recents, actions, pages and settings — and its page rows are generated from the same navigation config the rail is built from. That is why it cannot offer you a page that does not exist and cannot miss one that does, and it is also why a locked surface never appears in it.

The two composers

The box on Home and the one in Intelligence share a contract deliberately, so the muscle memory survives the jump between them.

• Enter — sends what you have typed.
• Shift+Enter — starts a new line instead of sending. Both boxes do this, which is the point of them sharing a contract.

Home’s box is a doorway rather than a chat, so sending from it creates the conversation and takes you to Intelligence with your question already asked. That is why it carries no attach, mode or command controls — those belong to the surface you are being taken to.

Slash commands in Intelligence

Typing a forward slash at the start of the message box opens a menu of commands rather than sending the text. It is the one place in the product where a single character is a shortcut.

• / — at the start of an empty box, opens the command menu.
• ↓ · ↑ — move through the matching commands, wrapping at either end.
• Enter · Tab — runs the highlighted command.
• Esc — dismisses the menu and leaves your text alone, so you can send a message that genuinely begins with a slash.

The menu narrows as you keep typing, so /us is enough to reach the usage command. Six commands are listed: memory, usage, thinking, style, clear and help.

Editing the Performance dashboard

Two keys are bound to a page rather than to a control, and they are the only ones that are. They work on Tracker › Performance while the layout editor is open — the session you start from the toolbar’s Layout button — and nowhere else, so a stray Escape typed on another page cannot discard an arrangement you are not looking at.

• Esc — cancels the session and puts the board back exactly as it was when you started it, applied layout included. Done is what saves, so there is no such thing as a silent unsaved exit.
• ⌘Z · Ctrl+Z — steps the arrangement back one gesture. It stands down inside a text field, so undo typed in a widget’s own search box still belongs to that box.

Both stand down while the Layout drawer or either save dialog is open, so they never compete with that dialog’s own Escape — dismissing a confirmation must not also end the session it was confirming.

What there is not

There are no single-key page shortcuts, no chord for the account picker or the date range, and nothing bound anywhere in the Portfolio. Apart from the dashboard editor above, everything reachable by keyboard goes through the palette, which is a deliberate trade: one chord to remember instead of thirty, at the cost of one extra keystroke.

The rest of the product is navigable by Tab and Enter in the ordinary way — a dialog traps focus while it is open, inerts the page behind it, and returns focus to whatever opened it, and the chrome’s icon-only controls carry names for a screen reader.