Keyboard shortcuts

Menu commands you can change

These are the defaults. Commands marked “none” have no shortcut until you give them one.

File

Command	Shortcut
New Thread	`⌘N`
New Chat	`⇧⌘N`
Add Project…	`⇧⌘O`
Open in Editor	`⌘O`
Reveal in Finder	none

Settings › General › New Threads › New Thread starts a chat makes ⌘N start a chat without a project.

Edit

Command	Shortcut
Add Selection to Composer (quotes a reply, takes terminal output or comments on diff lines, whichever has focus)	`⌘L`
Find › Search Threads	`⌥⌘F`

View

Command	Shortcut
Show or Hide Sidebar	`⌘B`
Show or Hide Terminal	`⌘J`
Show or Hide Diff	`⌘D`
Show or Hide Scheduled Tasks	`⌥⌘S`
Archived Threads…	`⌥⌘A`
Command Palette…	`⌘K`
Increase Font Size	`⌘+` (also `⌘=`)
Decrease Font Size	`⌘−`
Reset Font Size	`⌘0`

Thread

Command	Shortcut
Stop	`⌘.`
Previous Thread / Next Thread	`⇧⌘[` / `⇧⌘]`
Go to Thread 1–9 (the numbered threads in the sidebar)	`⌘1` … `⌘9`
Choose Agent and Model…	`⇧⌘M`
Reasoning Effort…	`⇧⌘E`
Access…	`⇧⌘A`
Plan Mode	none in the menu; `⇧⇥` in the composer
Rename…	`⌘R`
Pin or Unpin Thread	`⇧⌘P`
Archive or Unarchive Thread	`⌘W`
Copy Path	none
Delete Thread…	none

In the main window ⌘W archives the open thread, where you can bring it back from Archived Threads; File › Close Window is ⇧⌘W. Other windows still close with ⌘W.

Help

Command	Shortcut
Report an Issue… (opens GitHub’s bug report form)	none
Request a Feature…	none

Composer

The composer’s keys follow two settings in Settings › General › Chat: Send messages with (Return, the default, or Command-Return) and Follow-up behavior (Steer, the default, Queue or Interrupt). With the defaults:

Keys	What they do
`↩`	Send the message, or steer the agent with it while it works
`⌘↩`	Queue the message for after the turn instead
`⇧⌘↩`	Send the first queued message into the current turn
`⇧↩`	Insert a new line
`⇧⇥`	Switch between Build and Plan
`↑` / `↓`	Earlier and later messages you sent
`⌥↑`	Edit the last queued message
`⇥`	Insert the highlighted file or command
`⎋`	Close file and command suggestions (and cancel dictation)

With Command-Return, ⌘↩ sends, ⇧⌘↩ does the other follow-up, and ↩ inserts a new line. With Queue, the roles of steering and queueing swap. Type @ to mention a file and / for commands. Steering works with Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode; for the other agents a steered message waits in the queue.

Where	Keys	What they do
Sidebar	`↩`	Move to the composer
Sidebar	`⌫`	Delete the thread
Sidebar	hold `⌘`	Show the thread numbers for Go to Thread
Conversation	`→` / `←`	Expand or collapse the selected entry
Conversation	`Space` or `↩`	Open or close the selected entry
Conversation	`⌘C`	Copy the selected entry
Conversation	`⎋`	Back to the composer (closes the find bar first)
Conversation	`⌘F`	Find in the thread
Conversation	`⌘G` / `⇧⌘G`	Next and previous match

Typing while the conversation has focus goes to the composer. ⌘-clicking a web link opens it in the other browser: your default browser, or Coincide’s browser panel if you set links to open outside.

Terminal

While a terminal has focus, these keys act on it instead of the menu commands they share:

Keys	What they do
`⌘T` or `⌘N`	New terminal
`⌘D`	Split right
`⇧⌘D`	Split down
`⌘W`	Close terminal
`⌘K`	Clear
`⇧⌘[` / `⇧⌘]`	Previous and next terminal tab
`⌥⌘←` / `⌥⌘→`	Previous and next pane
`⌘←` / `⌘→`	Move to the start or end of the line
`⌥←` / `⌥→`	Move by word
`⌘↑` / `⌘↓`	Previous and next command (with the shell integration’s prompt marks)
`⇧⌘L`	Send the last command’s output to the agent

Command palette

Keys	What they do
`⌘K`	Open the palette
`↑` / `↓`	Choose a result
`↩`	Run the chosen result
`⇥`	Complete a folder path
`⌫`	Back to the previous list
`⎋`	Close

Start with / or ~ to add a folder as a project. More in Command palette.

Fixed menu shortcuts

These belong to standard macOS menu items and can’t be changed in Coincide:

Command	Shortcut
Coincide › Settings…	`⌘,`
Coincide › Hide Coincide / Hide Others	`⌘H` / `⌥⌘H`
Coincide › Quit Coincide	`⌘Q` (hold it, or press it twice, while “Hold ⌘Q to quit” is on)
File › Close Window	`⇧⌘W`
Edit › Undo / Redo	`⌘Z` / `⇧⌘Z`
Edit › Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All	`⌘X`, `⌘C`, `⌘V`, `⌘A`
Edit › Paste and Match Style	`⌥⇧⌘V`
Edit › Find › Find…, Find Next, Find Previous	`⌘F`, `⌘G`, `⇧⌘G`
Edit › Find › Use Selection for Find	`⌘E`
Edit › Spelling and Grammar › Check Document Now	`⌘;`
View › Show Toolbar	`⌥⌘T`
View › Enter Full Screen	`⌃⌘F`
Window › Minimize	`⌘M`

Undo and Redo also apply to inbox actions on whole groups of threads (archiving, unarchiving or deleting several at once) during the current session.

Shortcuts set elsewhere

Appshots: press the left and right ⌘ keys together in any app, or record your own shortcut, in Settings › Appshots. See Appshots.
Dictation: off by default. Turn on a keyboard shortcut in Settings › Voice: a key with ⌘, ⌃ or ⌥, one modifier pressed on its own, or the 🌐 fn key, held or tapped. It works while a Coincide window is in front. See Dictation.

Changing shortcuts

Open Settings › Keyboard. Filter by a command’s name or keys, or turn on Show only conflicts.
Click a command’s shortcut and type the new one. Escape cancels; Delete removes the shortcut. Shortcuts need ⌘ or ⌃, so they never take keys away from text fields.
Read the notes under the row. Coincide tells you when a shortcut is “Also assigned to” another command, when macOS uses it, when it would take a key from the composer, or when a standard menu item keeps it (then your command gets no shortcut). It also notes keys a focused terminal keeps for itself.

Reset All… puts every menu command back to its default. App Shortcuts you add for Coincide in System Settings › Keyboard › Keyboard Shortcuts take priority over Coincide’s own; the pane links there with Open Keyboard Settings….