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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)
"⌘/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