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Keyboard shortcuts for dashboard apps
Keyboard shortcuts for dashboard apps
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Written by Leo
Updated over a week ago

If you're not a born shortcutter, we get it. You can still work like a Tape power user if you remember few commands

πŸ’‘Note: You'll see cmd/ctrl used a lot below. This indicates command on Mac and control on Windows and Linux.

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  • Press cmd/ctrl + l to unlock dashboard apps. Or to lock dashboard apps.

  • Press arrow keys to navigate to a different block.

  • Press cmd/ctrl + z to undo

  • Press cmd/ctrl + y to redo

  • Press cmd/ctrl + # to close the sidebar

  • Press cmd/ctrl + p to open search or jump to a recently viewed

  • Press cmd/ctrl + f to search the current dashboard app

πŸ’‘Tip: You can bring up your computer's emoji picker with the shortcut ctrl + cmd + space on Mac and windows key + .or windows key + ; on Windows.

Create & style your content

  • Press enter to insert a line of text.

  • Press shift + enter to create a line break within a block of text.

  • Type /turn at the beginning or end of a block to turn it into a different type of block. You'll see a list of choices pop up.

  • Type /background at the beginning or end of any text block to change its color or highlight color.

  • Type / followed by the name of any color to change the color of the block. Like /red.

  • Press cmd/ctrl + + to zoom in.

  • Press cmd/ctrl + - to zoom out.

Edit & move blocks

Everything in Tape's dashboard app is a block β€” from a line of text to an image or embed. These shortcuts let you edit whole blocks once they're selected.

  • Press esc to select the block you're currently in. Or to clear selected blocks.

  • Press cmd/ctrl + a once to select the block your cursor is in.

  • Press arrow keys to select a different block.

  • Press backspace or delete to delete selected blocks.

  • Press cmd/ctrl + D to duplicate the blocks you've selected.

  • Press enter to edit any text inside a selected block


Slash commands

Pressing / in dashboard apps brings up a full menu of content blocks you can choose to insert. You can shortcut this further by pressing / and then typing what you want. Here are your choices:

Basic

  • /text or /plain creates a new text block.

  • /heading creates headings.

  • esc clears the / menu.

Media

  • /embed lets you add embeds that work with Tape.

Advanced

  • /delete deletes the current block.

  • /column create columns of blocks.

πŸ’‘Tip: Not a keyboard shortcut, but very useful. By double-clicking on the gray vertical guide between blocks within nested columns, you can make all columns the same width.

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