Coggle Keyboard Shortcuts

So keyboard shortcuts are great, we love them! That’s why Coggle has shortcuts to help you do lots of common things, and why we’ve collected them into this handy list:

• [tab] creates a new child branch.
• [shift] + [tab] moves back to the parent branch
• [shift] + [enter] creates a new sibling branch
• [ctrl] + [enter] creates a new line of text inside the existing branch
• [alt] + [shift] + arrow keys allow you to move around between items, along the direction of the branches. If no item is currently being edited, any combination will also select the root item.
• [ctrl] + [Z] (or [command] + [Z] on Mac) undoes the last change (works for all changes since the page was reloaded)
• [ctrl] + [shift] + [Z] redoes the last undone change.
• [ctrl] + [+] (or [command] + [+] on Mac) increases the text size of the current item, or zooms the page if no item is active.
• [ctrl] + [-] (or [command] + [-] on Mac) reduces the text size of the current item, or zooms the page if no item is active.
• [ctrl] + [0] (or [command] + [0] on Mac) setts the text size of the current item back to the default, or sets the page zoom to default if no item is active.
• double-tap [backspace] in an empty item with no children to remove it
• press [ctrl] + [shift] + [alt] + [r] to re-arrange all of the branches in a diagram. (Awesome plan feature)

There are also some handy things you can do with the keyboard and mouse in combination:

• [ctrl] + click on the (+) button of a branch to remove it (the (+) turns into an (x) as you hold the key). (On Mac, use [alt] intead of [ctrl])
• [shift] + click on the (+) button of a branch to insert a new parent above it
• [ctrl] + [shift] + click on the (+) button of a branch to remove it without removing it’s children (Or also use [command] + click on Mac)
• [shift] + drag an item to transplant it to a different parent
• hold [ctrl] after starting to drag an item to snap to a grid as you move it.
• Also try holding down [ctrl] and [shift] with the context menu open!