Keyboard shortcuts

Database

Shortcut	Action
CTRL-N	Create a new database.
CTRL-O	Open an existing database.
CTRL-SHIFT-I	Merge a database into this one.
CTRL-SHIFT-S	Export the database.
CTRL-Q	Close blunderDB.
CTRL-M	Edit database metadata.

Position

Shortcut	Action
CTRL-I	Import one or more positions/matches from file (xg, xgp, sgf, mat, txt, bgf).
CTRL-SHIFT-F	Recursively import a folder of match/position files.
CTRL-C	Copy a position to the clipboard.
CTRL-X	Copy board image to clipboard (PNG).
CTRL-X CTRL-X	Copy board + analysis image to clipboard (PNG).
CTRL-V	Paste a position from the clipboard (automatic format detection).
CTRL-S	Save a position.
CTRL-U	Update a position.
Del	Delete the current position (confirmation required).
BACKSPACE	Reset board, cube, score, and dice.
CTRL-G	Show the position metadata.

Navigation

Shortcut	Action
CTRL-R	Reload all the positions from the database.
PageUp, h	First position / Previous game (match navigation).
LEFT, k	Previous position.
RIGHT, j	Next position.
UP, k	Previous move (when a move is selected in the analysis).
DOWN, j	Next move (when a move is selected in the analysis).
PageDown, l	Last position / Next game (match navigation).
r	Load a random position.
ESC	Leave the results of an ss search run from a collection or a match: back to the collection, or to the match on the move studied.

While a question of the Training panel is set on the board, the keys that browse the list do not scroll it: the question keeps the board.

Display

Shortcut	Action
CTRL-LEFT	Board orientation to the left.
CTRL-RIGHT	Board orientation to the right.
p	Show/hide pipcount.

Actions

Shortcut	Action
TAB	Open the search panel (position editor).
SPACE	Open the command line.

Tools

Shortcut	Action
CTRL-L	Show/hide the analysis.
CTRL-SHIFT-L	Rank the neighbours of the current position.
CTRL-P	Show/hide the comments.
CTRL-J	Show/hide the Training panel.
CTRL-K	Show/hide the Anki panel (spaced repetition).
CTRL-F	Show/hide the search panel.
CTRL-Tab	Show/hide the match panel.
CTRL-B	Show/hide the collections panel.
CTRL-Y	Show/hide the tournaments panel.
CTRL-D	Show/hide the Stats panel.
CTRL-E	Show/hide the Eval panel.
CTRL-SHIFT-T	Show/hide the Transcription panel (match drafts).
CTRL-MAJ-D	Show/hide the Tournaments panel to direct a tournament.
J / K	In the proposal queue of a directed tournament: down, up.
ENTER	In the proposal queue: confirm the selected proposal.
LEFT / RIGHT	In the result card: the player on the left wins, the one on the right wins.
CTRL-Z	Take back the last decision of a directed tournament.
ESC	Close the result card or the take-back in progress.
?	Show/hide the help.

View Tabs

Shortcut	Action
CTRL-T	Create a new view (a copy of the current view).
CTRL-W	Close the current view.
CTRL-PageUp, SHIFT-J	Previous view.
CTRL-PageDown, SHIFT-K	Next view.
CTRL-1 … CTRL-9	Go directly to the n-th view.
Double-click the tab	Rename the view.

Command Line

Shortcut	Action
UP	Browse command history up.
DOWN	Browse command history down.

Search History

Shortcut	Action
Click	Select/deselect a search (show position).
Double-click	Execute the search.

Filter Library

Shortcut	Action
Click	Select/deselect a filter (show position).
Double-click	Execute the filter search.

Analysis Panel

Shortcut	Action
Click	Select/deselect a move (show/hide arrows).
UP, k	Select previous move (when a move is selected).
DOWN, j	Select next move (when a move is selected).
d	Toggle between checker and cube analysis (match navigation only).
Esc	Deselect move. If no move selected, close the panel.

Eval Panel

Shortcut	Action
Click	Select/deselect a move (show/hide arrows).
UP, k	Select previous move (when a move is selected).
DOWN, j	Select next move (when a move is selected).
Esc	Deselect move.

Match Panel

Shortcut	Action
Click	Select a match.
Double-click	Navigate the match.
UP, k	Select previous match.
DOWN, j	Select next match.
ENTER	Load the selected match.
Del	Delete the selected match.
Esc	Deselect/close the panel.

Anki panel (spaced repetition)

Shortcut	Action
SPACE, Click	Show the answer (the recorded analysis of the position).
1	Rate: Again (failed, review soon).
2	Rate: Hard.
3	Rate: Good.
4	Rate: Easy.
p	Show/hide the pip count (same as the general shortcut, available during review).
Esc	Stop the review and return to the deck list (can resume later).

Tournament Panel

Shortcut	Action
Click, Double-click	Select a tournament (show its detail).
UP, k	Select previous tournament, when the panel has the focus or no directed tournament is displayed.
DOWN, j	Select next tournament, when the panel has the focus or no directed tournament is displayed.
Double-click (on a match of the tournament)	Navigate the match.
Esc	Cancel the current edit, otherwise clear the add-match search, otherwise deselect the tournament, otherwise close the panel (one step at a time).

Collection Panel

Shortcut	Action
Click	Add/remove the current position to/from the hovered collection.
Double-click	Open the collection.
Del	Remove the current position (or the checked positions) from the open collection.
Esc	Go back to the collection list, otherwise deselect the collection, otherwise close the panel (one step at a time).

Transcription Panel

The panel takes these keys while it has the focus. In front of the list of drafts it already takes a few, so that picking up yesterday’s work does not call for the mouse.

Shortcut	Action
DOWN, j / UP, k (list of drafts)	Walk the drafts. The first is highlighted on opening: it is the most recently modified one.
ENTER (list of drafts)	Open the highlighted draft.
n (list of drafts)	Open the creation form.
Click	Open a draft from the list.
1 … 6	Enter a die: player 1’s die, then player 2’s for the opening (the higher one starts and plays both dice).
1 … 6 (roll entered)	Validate the selected move and open the next roll. On an action being reviewed, where the cursor sits on an action already written, the digit restarts the roll of that action instead of validating.
DOWN, j	Select the next candidate (the play’s arrows appear on the board).
UP, k	Select the previous candidate.
Wheel	Select the next or previous candidate, over the list as well as over the board: the eye stays on the board and the arrows scroll past.
Click (on a row)	Select that candidate.
Double-click (on a row)	Validate that candidate.
Click (on the roll triangle)	Enter the roll in a single gesture: the cell carries both dice, doubles on the diagonal. During the opening the triangle gives way to a row of six dice, one click giving one side’s die.
Click (on a point of the board)	Keep only the candidates with a step leaving that point; a second point narrows further, a click on the point already filtered removes it, and a click off the board lifts the filter.
Click, drag (no die entered)	Play the move straight on the board: the checker goes from the clicked point to its destination, constrained to the legal plays, and the two dice follow from the steps played.
BACKSPACE (move being played on the board)	Undo the last step played on the board.
ENTER	Record the selected play (the last play of a game).
BACKSPACE	Clear the two dice entered. This is the way back to a misread roll, since a digit validates.
Click (on the dice cells)	Clear the two dice entered, like BACKSPACE.
Esc	Abandon the entry in progress.
d	Double or redouble: the selected play is validated on the way, in a single key.
t	Take the double offered: the cube goes to the taker at the doubled value and the doubler rolls again.
p	Pass the double offered: the game is won at the value the cube had before the double.
r then 1, 2 or 3	Give the game up for the side on roll: single, gammon or backgammon. Escape between the two keys cancels without recording anything.
Click (on the cube)	Offer a double for the side on roll, like the d key. Facing an offer, the cube does not answer: take and pass are in the row of buttons.
LEFT, h	Move the cursor back one action in the transcript.
RIGHT, l	Move the cursor forward one action.
Click (on a cell)	Put the cursor on that action.
Right-click (on a cell)	Open that action’s corrections: insert before, insert after, delete, change side. The cursor is brought onto the cell on the way.
CTRL-ENTER	Create the match from the draft, or update it if it already exists.
i	Insert an action before the one under the cursor (the side offered is the one that keeps what follows coherent).
a	Insert an action after the one under the cursor.
x, Del	Delete the action under the cursor; the ones after it keep their side.
s	Give the action under the cursor to the other side.
CTRL-Z	Undo the last gesture on the draft.
CTRL-SHIFT-Z	Redo the undone gesture.

A roll that allows no play records the dance on its own, with no extra keystroke.

The digit has one meaning: it starts a roll where the cursor is. At the end of the document there is nothing under the cursor, so it validates the selected move before opening the next roll — the best move played therefore costs the two dice and nothing more, its validation being carried by the first key of the following turn. On an action already written, which one came back to correct, there is something under the cursor: the digit restarts the roll of that action, in place. The difference is visible on screen, the cell aimed at being framed in the transcript.

A gesture with nothing to do says so, once, in the status bar: “nothing to undo” on an empty stack, “no action under the cursor” at the end of the document. The sentence clears itself and gives the place back to the expected action.

Moving the cursor back onto an action and typing again corrects it in place: validating replaces the action, and the cursor returns where it was. If the dice are corrected and the recorded play is still a legal play of the new roll, it is kept; otherwise the first candidate of the new roll is offered and the play is flagged “to review” until it is validated. Moving the cursor forward or back after changing something records the correction on the way.

Nothing is refused and nothing is deleted: inserting an action of the same side as its neighbour creates a double turn, deleting an action may create another one, changing a side may make the plays that follow illegal. These inconsistencies are marked in the transcript, never corrected on your behalf, and the cursor lands on the first of them after every gesture. The undo stack lives in memory: it is lost when the draft is closed.

The panel itself — the list of drafts, the creation, the entry, the transcript and the draft bar — is described in Transcription Panel.

Help Panel

Shortcut	Action
LEFT, h	Previous tab.
RIGHT, l	Next tab.
UP, k	Scroll up.
DOWN, j	Scroll down.
SPACE	Next page.
PageUp	Top of the content.
PageDown	Bottom of the content.
?, CTRL-F, Esc	Close the help.