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. Shortcuts use the Cmd key on both macOS and Linux.

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 or project, or search files in the active worktree.

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, 7 — Extension panels in the order they appear in your bottom toolbar (Live Stats, Toolkit, Council by default)

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.

Zoom

Cmd+= (or Cmd+Plus) — Zoom in
Cmd+- — Zoom out

Zoom scales the whole interface, including the terminal, from 50% to 200%. The terminal’s base font size, family and weight are set separately in Settings > Appearance > Terminal.

Changes panel

Cmd+F (or Ctrl+F) — Find in the diff. Enter / Shift+Enter step through matches; Esc closes.

General

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

These shortcuts work even while the terminal has focus; everything else you type goes to the agent.

Terminal

Cmd+C — Copy the selection if there is one; otherwise it is passed to the terminal.
Ctrl+C — Interrupt, as in any terminal.
Cmd+V — Paste. Pastes longer than 300 lines are written to a temporary file and its path is pasted instead.
Ctrl+V — Sent through literally, which is how Claude Code accepts a pasted image.

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. Results are grouped by project: the project row, then its active quests, then its backlog quests.
Select an active quest to jump to it; select a backlog quest to edit it; select a project to open its quest log.
On the highlighted row, press Q on a project to create a quest, E on an active quest to open it in your editor, or A on a backlog quest to activate it.
Type > at the start of your query to switch to file search, which fuzzy-searches files in the active quest’s worktree and opens the selection in your editor.

Slash Commands

Type / in the command palette to access project-level slash commands:

/terminal <project> — Open a project in your preferred terminal.
/editor <project> — Open a project in your preferred code editor.
/remote <project> — Open the project’s remote Git URL in your browser.

Tab auto-completes the command name. Type a space after the command to filter projects by name. If exactly one project matches, the command executes automatically.

Menus

Hold Option while a quest or project context menu is open and Open in Editor / Open in Terminal expand into submenus listing every editor and terminal, with your default marked.
In the Review old journals dialog, K keeps the entry, X archives or deletes it, and → skips it.

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+3 on its own hides the terminal and gives you a full-height 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.