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Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts within Plain make it really fast to help customers and stay in the flow.

This is the list of available keyboard shortcuts in Plain:

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Global shortcuts

  • + K – Open the command palette

  • + K then Copy link – Copy a shareable link to your current page directly from the command palette

  • ? – Open help panel with full list of available shortcuts

  • T – Create task

On thread queues

  • F – Add filter

  • / – Search for customers or threads

  • V – Toggle display options

  • + Click – Select multiple threads for bulk actions

When viewing a thread

  • R – Focus composer to reply

  • N – Add a note to a thread

  • B – Ask Sidekick

  • + + B – Toggle Sidekick position

  • A – Assign the thread

  • E – Mark a thread as Done

  • Z – Pause for later

  • W – Wait for customer

  • S – Change status

  • L – Add label

  • P – Set priority

  • D – Start discussion

  • I – Add Thread link

  • X – Escalate thread

  • O – Open in Slack

  • + + X – Copy thread URL

  • J / K – Next/Previous thread

  • + . – Show/hide queue

  • + / – Show/hide sidebar

  • esc – Go back to queue

  • V – Toggles display options

When the composer is focused

  • + – Send message

  • + + – Send message and mark thread as done

  • [ – Insert snippet

  • esc – Exit composer

  • + U – Create snippet

Reply formatting

  • + B – Bold

  • + I – Italic

  • + + S – Strikethrough

  • + + 7 – Ordered list

  • + + 8 – Bullet list

  • + E – Code

  • + + C – Code block