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Personal settings: Keyboard shortcuts

Written by amaise Support

Keyboard shortcuts let you move through amaise faster, without reaching for the mouse. A full, searchable overview is always available right inside the app.

Opening the shortcuts overview

Press the ? key at any time to open the overview — or choose it from your avatar menu in the top right, under Help → Keyboard shortcuts.

Avatar menu with the "Keyboard shortcuts" entry

The overview is organized by view: at the top you switch between Case list, Requests overview, and Case detail — the view you're currently on is already preselected. The search field lets you find a shortcut by its name, and hovering a key shows what it's called. Close the overview with Esc.

The keyboard shortcuts overview with tabs and a search field

Case list

  • / — Focus the search field

  • ↑ ↓ ← → — Move between cases

  • Enter — Open the selected case

  • Cmd / Ctrl + ↑ / ↓ — Switch between views

Requests overview

  • / — Focus the search field

  • ↑ ↓ — Move between requests

  • Enter — Open the selected request

The requests overview only appears if collaboration is enabled in your workspace.

Case detail: documents

Once a case is open and you're reading documents:

  • ↑ ↓ — Previous / next document

  • Shift + ↑ / Shift + ↓ — Previous / next unread document

  • R — Mark the document as read or unread

  • Shift + R — Mark all documents as read

  • W — Mark the document as important

  • U — Filter unread documents

  • S — Open the sort menu

  • T — Jump to the document types

  • X — Clear all filters

  • / — Focus the search field

Case detail: PDF viewer

  • Cmd / Ctrl + F — Find in the document

  • ← → — Previous / next page

  • Cmd / Ctrl + P — Print

Case detail: opening the panels

Press G and then a letter to open or close a panel:

  • G then C — CasePilot

  • G then D — DocPilot

  • G then N — Notebook

  • G then E — Exports (in document study)

  • G then O — Collaboration

  • G then A — Access management

  • G then F — Case data

Which panels you can open depends on what's enabled for your workspace and your permissions. CasePilot, DocPilot, the notebook, and the other panels each appear only where they're available.

Case detail: dashboards and case history

In the dashboards:

  • ↑ ↓ — Previous / next card

  • Enter — Open the selected card

  • / — Focus the search field

In the case history:

  • ↑ ↓ — Previous / next entry — the timeline follows your selection

Switching between views

In any view, use Cmd / Ctrl + ↑ / ↓ to move to the previous or next view — for example from the case list to document study, the dashboards, or the case history.

Search suggestions

Once you type in the search field and suggestions appear:

  • Enter — Search

  • ↑ ↓ — Move through the suggestions

  • Esc — Close the suggestions

Reaching the end of a document or the list

The arrow keys take you through a whole case without going back to the list. When you press (or ) on the last page of a document, amaise opens the next document for you. And when you reach the very last document, pressing on once more loops back to the first one — so you keep going in a circle and never get stuck at the end. It works the same in reverse: from the first document, takes you to the last. A short note confirms it each time you loop back to the start.

You don't have to remember the keys. At the bottom of the last page, a Next document button appears in the reader, with its keyboard shortcut shown right on it. Click it to continue.

The "Next document" button at the end of a page

On the very last document, the button reads End of list — back to first document, so it's always clear where it will take you. At the bottom of the document list you'll also find a End of list — back to first document bar — click it to jump straight back to the top of the list.

The "End of list — back to first document" bar

Discovering shortcuts as you work

You don't have to memorize the shortcuts — amaise shows them right where you work:

  • Hover a button and its shortcut appears in the tooltip, next to the action.

  • Search fields show a small / hint for the shortcut that focuses them.

Turning keyboard shortcuts on or off

Keyboard shortcuts are on by default. If you'd rather work without them, open your avatar menu → Personal settings and turn off Enable keyboard shortcuts under Keyboard shortcuts. This turns off all keyboard shortcuts — including arrow-key navigation — as well as the on-screen hints.

Note: this setting applies to this browser only and isn't carried over to your other devices.

Tip: single-key shortcuts such as R or W only fire when you're not typing in a text field — so they never get in your way while writing.

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