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Every key Jevie answers to on one page, so the whole Mac is a keystroke away: asking, the palette, agents, windows and the wall.
Open and askIn the paletteFiles and listsAgents askingSession wallTiling and roomsWall browserDictation and voiceMake your own
Open and ask
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⌘ Space | Open the palette and type what you want |
| ⌘⌘ (double-tap ⌘) | Ask out loud; Jevie answers out loud |
| hold ⌘ in any text field | Dictate; let go and the sentence is written there |
| ⇧⇧ (double-tap ⇧) | Keep what is in front, to find later under bookmarks |
| Alt Space (Windows) | The palette on Windows; Alt stands in for ⌘ there |
The first run can move Spotlight to ⌥ Space in one click, and Undo puts it back.
In the palette
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| ↵ | Open the row in hand, or run what you typed |
| ⌘J · ⌘K | Down and up through the rows (↓ · ↑ too); next or previous track on the player |
| ⌘1 – ⌘9 | Take that row at once |
| Tab | Lock the palette to the row's area; on a card, the next field |
| Esc | Step back, then close; on a card, leave with nothing done |
| ⌘P | Preview the row in hand |
| ⌘C | Copy the row in hand |
| ⌘⌫ | Stop the row in hand: a server, a to-do, a session (asked first) |
| ⌘⇧M | Sounds and spoken answers off or on |
| ⌘O | The projects you worked in lately |
| hold ⌘, ⌥ or ⌃ | Show your own hotkeys |
Files and lists
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⌘L · ⌘H | Into the folder, or up one |
| Space · ⌘A | Mark a file or app; mark every file |
| ⌘1 – ⌘4 | Icons, list, columns, gallery, as in Finder |
| ⌘R · ⌘D | Rename, or duplicate |
| ⌘X or ⌘⇧C, then ⌘V | Move or copy files to another folder |
| ⇧D or ⌘⌫ | Marked files to the Bin (asked first), or quit the marked apps |
| ⌘Z | Undo the last change to files |
| ⌘↩ · ⇧⌘↩ | A coding session in the folder; pick the agent first |
| Tab | lf's keys: j k h l, gg G, f and a letter, / to filter, ? for all |
s then t · o · n · s | In lf's keys: sort newest, oldest, by name, biggest |
r · D · d · y · p | In lf's keys: rename, to the Bin, cut, copy, paste |
Agents asking
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| Y · N · A | Allow, Deny, or Always allow |
| hold Y, or ⌘Y | Allow something that cannot be undone |
| ⌘1 – ⌘4 | Choose that option |
| ⌘J, then type | Reply to the session; ↵ sends |
| Esc | Close the card; it never denies |
Session wall
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⌘H · ⌘J · ⌘K · ⌘L | The tile that way (with ⇧, move it) |
| ⇧⌘ arrow · ⌥⌘ arrow | Split that way; the pane that way (⌥⇧⌘ moves it) |
| ⌘F · ⌘↩ · ⌘0 | Fill the wall with the tile; make it the biggest; the whole wall |
| ⌘A · ⇧⌘A | Out a level, back in |
| ⌘N · ⌥⌘N | The next or previous session waiting on you |
| ⇧⌘N | A new session |
| ⌘T · ⌘] · ⌘[ | A new shell tab; next and previous tab |
| ⇧⌘R · ⇧⌘G · ⌃⌘I | Name the tab; a tab in a folder; type a path into the terminal |
| ⌘; or ⌘Q · ⌘O · ⌘I | The tile before; back and forward through where you have been |
| ⌘1 – ⌘9 | The side's row with that number |
| ⌘M · ⌘' | Mark the tile with a letter; go to a mark |
| ⌘⇧F | Search every tile and tab |
| ⌘B · ⌘. · ⇧⌘P | The side; only the agents; every command |
| ⌘= ⌘- · ⇧⌘= ⇧⌘- | Text size; the tile's size |
| ⌘\\ | The next layout |
| ⌘P | The tile in a window of its own (a page: in Chrome) |
| ⌘W · ⌘⇧W | Close the tile (asked first), or take it off the wall and keep it running |
| ⌘/ | Every wall key |
Tiling and rooms
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⌃⌥ Space | Next layout (with ⇧, previous) |
| ⌃⌥ arrows · ⌃⌥↩ | Swap the window that way; make it the main one |
| ⌃⌥F | Float the window out of the layout |
| ⌃⌥M · ⌃⌥R | Mirror or turn the layout |
| ⌃⌥W · ⌃⌥C | Cycle the column's width; centre it |
| ⌃⌥1 – ⌃⌥9 | Open a numbered room |
| ⌘⇧1 – ⌘⇧9 | Move the window to that desktop, and go with it |
Tiling is off until you turn it on (tile
).
Wall browser
Vim keys on a page tile, never while you type in a field. ? lists them all.
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
j · k · d · u · gg · G | Scroll; half a page; top and bottom |
f · C · af · yf | Follow a link by its letters; in a tab behind, in front; copy its address |
S · D · r | Back and forward (H L too); reload |
R · E · T | Next and previous tab; choose a tab |
t · x · X | New tab; close one, or bring it back |
go · yy · p · P | Edit the address; copy it; open the copied address here, in a new tab |
gi · ] · [ | The first text field; next and previous page |
zi · zo · zz | Zoom in, out, reset |
/ · n · N | Find on the page; next, previous |
: | The command bar: an address, words to search, or :open :tabopen :close :undo :zoom :chrome |
i | Pass keys to the page until Esc |
| ⌘D · ⌘T · ⌘F · ⌘R | Type an address; new tab; find; reload |
| ⌘⌥[ · ⌘⌥] · ⌘⇧T | Back, forward; the last closed tab |
| ⌘⇧O · ⌘. | Take over from an agent and hand back; stop it |
| ⌘P | Keep the page in Chrome instead |
Dictation and voice
| Keys | What it does |
|---|---|
| hold ⌘ | Your words gather above the caret; let go to write them |
| ⌘V | Paste a dictation that could not be written |
| Esc while talking | The conversation moves into the notch and keeps working |
Make your own
Any sentence can have a key: bind ⌘↩ terminal
runs that sentence from anywhere (your Jevie files). A key another app already holds is shown as taken.
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Updated 27 October 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us