Keyboard shortcuts

Every shortcut Sgeulai adds of its own, grouped by what it is for. The manuscript editor is markdown, and every formatting command writes the markdown for you rather than hiding it.

Getting around

Shortcut	Does
`⇧⌘O`	Open Quickly — jump to any chapter, scene or record by name
`⇧⌘F`	Search — the Story Bible and the prose together
`⌘P`	Print the open record, or the manuscript
`⌃⌘D`	Look Up the selected word — macOS's own dictionary
`⌃⌘T`	Synonyms for the word at the caret
`⌘?`	This Help

Making things

Shortcut	Does
`⇧⌘N`	New record, in whichever Story Bible browser is open. `⌘N` belongs to New Document
`⌥⌘N`	New Note

How the page looks while you work

None of these change the book. They change what is on screen while you write it, and none of them reaches an export.

Shortcut	Does
`⌃⌘N`	Night Page — a dark page inside an otherwise light app. Reads Day Page when you are already on one
`⌃⇧⌘F`	Focus Mode — clears the binder and the inspector away
`⌃⌘A`	Show AI-Written Text — the purple shading on and off
`⌃⌘E`	Cycle a record through Full, Compact, Necessities and Worksheet. The menu item names what it will switch to

Emphasis and inline

Shortcut	Does
`⌘B`	Strong
`⌘I`	Emphasis
⌃⇧`	Strikethrough
⇧⌘`	Inline code
`⌘K`	Link the selection
`⌘\`	Clear formatting

Headings

Shortcut	Does
`⌘1` – `⌘6`	Heading levels 1 to 6
`⌘0`	Back to a plain paragraph
`⌘=` / `⌘-`	Raise or lower the heading level

Inside an open chapter or scene, these shortcuts are purely typographic — they style a line, nothing more. Heading level only becomes structural once, at import: a # becomes a part label or a standalone chapter, a ## becomes a chapter, and a ### becomes a scene. See The binder for how that shape is kept — and edited — afterward.

Blocks

Shortcut	Does
`⌥⌘Q`	Quote
`⌥⌘U`	Bulleted list
`⌥⌘O`	Numbered list
`⌥⌘C`	Code fence
`⌥⌘T`	Table

Structure

Shortcut	Does
`⌃⇧⌘S`	Split into a new scene at the cursor
`⌃⇧⌘C`	Split into a new chapter at the cursor

Notes, citations and pictures

What each one writes, and the settings behind them, are on Notes & citations.

Shortcut	Does
`⌃⌘7`	Insert a highlight from Apple Books
`⌃⌘8`	Insert a footnote
`⌃⌥⌘8`	Insert an endnote
`⌃⇧⌘8`	Check footnotes
`⌃⌘9`	Insert a citation
`⌃⌘0`	Insert a picture
`Space`	Quick Look the selected picture, in Pictures
`←` `→` `↑` `↓`	Move the selection in Pictures, a picture or a row at a time — an open Quick Look follows

Finding

Shortcut	Does
`⌘F`	Find… — in the field or section you're focused in
`⌃⌘F`	Find & Replace in Document…
`⌥⌘F`	Find & Replace in Project…

Find & Replace in Project… goes across everything at once — the whole manuscript, the whole Story Bible, or both. Each chapter or scene it touches gets one automatic snapshot first, and the whole pass is a single undo — see Find and Find & Replace for the full set of options.

Focus Mode

Focus Mode in the View menu clears the panes away and leaves the prose.