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Overlay Shortcuts: Every Pluely Hotkey
Every overlay action has a hotkey — this page is the full reference. There are two kinds:
- Global shortcuts work from anywhere, even while another app has focus — summoning, capturing, starting a session. They use a modifier (⌘ Cmd on macOS, Ctrl on Windows/Linux) and can be rebound or disabled from the dashboard's Shortcuts page.
- Overlay keys work while the overlay itself has focus (click anywhere on it first). The overlay floats above everything, so one click and the whole overlay is keyboard-driven — and nothing is stolen from other apps.
Only the arrow keys are plain — and they never fire inside a text field, where arrows must move the caret. Every other overlay key needs ⌘ Cmd (macOS) / Ctrl (Windows, Linux) held, so ordinary typing can never trigger an action.
Global shortcuts
| Action | macOS | Windows / Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Show / hide the overlay | ⌘ \ | Ctrl \ |
| Open / close the dashboard | ⌘ ⇧ D | Ctrl Shift D |
| Focus the input (jumps to Ask) | ⌘ ⇧ I | Ctrl Shift I |
| Push-to-talk voice input | ⌘ ⇧ A | Ctrl Shift A |
| Capture a screenshot into the question | ⌘ ⇧ S | Ctrl Shift S |
| Start / stop listening | ⌘ ⇧ M | Ctrl Shift M |
| Move the overlay (hold to glide) · Pro | ⌘ + arrow keys | Ctrl + arrow keys |
Overlay keys (overlay focused)
On Windows the overlay never takes keyboard focus (that is what keeps it invisible to the app you are sharing), so these keys work after you click the overlay once and until you click or Alt+Tab away. Pluely's own key hook delivers them; Cmd works the same way on macOS through normal focus.
"⌘/Ctrl" below means ⌘ Cmd on macOS, Ctrl on Windows and Linux.
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| ↓ | Scroll the AI answer down |
| ↑ | Scroll the transcript up in Listen mode — or the answer up in Ask mode |
| ⇧ ↑ | Scroll the AI answer up (Listen mode) |
| ⇧ ↓ | Scroll the transcript down (Listen mode) |
| ⌘/Ctrl 1 – 4 | Submit the 1st–4th follow-up chip |
| ⌘/Ctrl U | Toggle Use image (attach a live screenshot to every message) |
| ⌘/Ctrl P | Pause / resume the Listen session |
| ⌘/Ctrl R | Cycle auto responses: off → on questions → every pause |
| ⌘/Ctrl S | Open / close the overlay settings panel |
A few notes on how these behave:
- Scrolling: in Listen mode the transcript sits above the answer, so ↑ naturally reads back through the conversation while ↓ moves through the AI's response; hold Shift to move the other panel. Scrolling up pauses auto-follow so you can read; it resumes when you return to the bottom. If you've clicked into the answer panel itself, PageUp/PageDown and Home/End work too.
- Follow-ups (1–4): chips count left to right — your saved quick actions first, then the AI-suggested ones. Pressing the key submits the chip immediately, the same as clicking it.
- Use image (U) works in both Ask and Listen: while it's on, every question — and every Listen suggestion — goes out with a fresh screenshot of your screen, so the AI sees the slides, code, or document you're looking at.
- Auto responses (R) steps through the same three modes as the Auto responses control in the Listen composer — the chip on the overlay always names the active mode.
Customizing
Global shortcuts are rebindable from the dashboard → Shortcuts (rebinding needs a Pro license; enabling/disabling is free). Overlay keys are fixed — arrows for scrolling, ⌘/Ctrl chords for actions — and they only ever act on the overlay. The overlay's settings panel shows a cheat-sheet of the eight most useful shortcuts with your current bindings.
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Last updated 2026-07-10 · pluely.com