Keyboard Shortcuts

Sidequest is designed for keyboard-driven workflows. Most actions have shortcuts so you can stay in flow without reaching for the mouse.

Press Cmd+/ to open the shortcuts reference inside the app at any time.

Move between quests without leaving the keyboard:

Cmd+[ — Go back to the previous quest in your navigation history.
Cmd+] — Go forward to the next quest in your navigation history.
Cmd+Shift+P — Open the command palette to search and jump to any quest, project, or file across all your workspaces.

Navigation history works like a browser — every time you activate a quest, it gets pushed to the stack. Back and forward let you retrace your steps across projects.

Panel Toggles

Each panel in the layout has a number shortcut. These toggle the panel on and off:

Cmd+1 — Workspaces sidebar
Cmd+2 — Quest Log
Cmd+3 — Terminal
Cmd+4 — Changes (diff viewer)
Cmd+5, 6, … — Extension panels (in the order they appear in your bottom toolbar)

Only one extension panel can be open at a time. Toggling an extension closes any other open extension.

Tip: Hold down the Cmd key for about a second to see shortcut labels appear above each panel toggle button in the bottom toolbar.

Terminal Font

Adjust the terminal font size on the fly:

Cmd+= (or Cmd+Plus) — Increase font size
Cmd+- — Decrease font size

These affect the xterm.js terminal where Claude Code sessions run.

General

Cmd+, — Open Settings
Cmd+R — Reload the window (useful if the UI gets into a bad state)
Cmd+/ — Show keyboard shortcuts reference

Standard macOS shortcuts are available from the Edit menu:

Cmd+Z — Undo
Cmd+Shift+Z — Redo
Cmd+X — Cut
Cmd+C — Copy
Cmd+V — Paste
Cmd+A — Select All

Command Palette

The command palette (Cmd+Shift+P) is the fastest way to do almost anything:

Start typing to search quests across all projects.
Select a quest to jump directly to it and activate its terminal session.
From the results, you can also create new quests, open quests in your editor, or activate backlog quests.
Type > at the start of your query to switch to file search mode, which fuzzy-searches files in the active quest’s worktree.

Workflow Tips

Rapid context switching. Use Cmd+Shift+P to jump between quests in different projects. Combined with Cmd+[ and Cmd+], you can flip between two quests you are actively working on without scrolling through the sidebar.

Focused mode. Toggle off panels you do not need. For example, Cmd+1 to hide the sidebar and Cmd+2 to hide the quest log gives you a full-width terminal. Cmd+4 on its own gives you a full-width diff viewer.

Discover shortcuts. Hold Cmd for a moment to see all panel toggle shortcuts overlaid on the bottom toolbar. This is a quick way to learn the numbers without memorizing them.