Keyboard Shortcuts

Preceden supports a handful of keyboard shortcuts. Apart from the last two sections below, they apply while you are looking at a timeline and do nothing while your cursor is inside a text box.

Add an event

Ctrl/Cmd + A, on a timeline you can edit. Nothing happens if a dialog is already open.

Jump to search

Esc puts your cursor in the Search box above the timeline. Press Esc again from inside the box to clear what you typed and step back out.

Close a dialog (without saving any changes)

Esc. While a dialog is open, Esc closes the dialog rather than jumping to search, and if you have the icon picker or the color picker open, the first Esc closes just the picker.

Leave Presentation Mode

Esc, which takes you back to the normal editor. See Presentation Mode for the rest of that view.

Drag an event left and right

Hold Shift, then click and hold an event to drag it left and right if the event supports it.

Scroll horizontally while zoomed in

Use the left and right arrow keys. They scroll the timeline only once you have zoomed in, since at the default date range the whole timeline already fits.

Submit a form from the notes area

If you're editing event/layer/timeline notes and want to submit the changes you've made, you can press Ctrl/Cmd + Enter.

This is necessary because notes let you press Enter to create multiple paragraphs. Holding Ctrl/Cmd at the same time tells Preceden to submit the form instead of starting a new paragraph.

In the Bulk Editor

The Bulk Editor has a set of its own, and they work the other way around: they apply while your cursor is in one of its fields. Enter moves down the name column and starts a new event row when it reaches the end of a layer, Tab and Shift + Tab move one field forward or back along a row, and the Up and Down arrow keys move to the same field in the event above or below. That article shows each one in action.