Reference

Keyboard shortcuts

Every keyboard shortcut in the Lyric Genie web app, for Mac and for Windows and Linux.

Lyric Genie on the web has shortcuts for most things you do in a song, and two that help you find the rest. Where Mac and Windows differ, both are given. On Linux, use the Windows keys. To get back here from the app, open the avatar menu at the top right and choose Keyboard shortcuts.

Finding a command#

The command palette lists everything you can do on the page you're on, with its shortcut beside it. Start typing ("rhymes", "perform", "dark") and press Enter. It's the quickest way to learn the shortcuts below, and the way to reach an action whose keys your keyboard can't press.

Shortcuts that act on a panel or a list are ignored while you are typing in a box, so they never eat a letter you meant to type.

Home#

See The Home page.

Writing lyrics#

The lyric editor takes all the usual text-editing keys. These are the ones worth knowing:

On Linux, Ctrl Shift Z also redoes.

The in-line suggestion keys only do anything while a suggestion is showing. Otherwise Tab and Esc behave as they normally would. See In-line suggestions.

Undo across the page#

The song page keeps one history for the lyrics, the title and the AI Context fields, and the Undo and Redo buttons in the song bar take back whichever changed last.

The keys work slightly differently depending on where you are typing:

• In the lyrics, ⌘ Z or Ctrl Z undoes your last change to the lyrics.
• In the title or an AI Context field, it undoes the last change anywhere on the page, the same as the Undo button.

Enter in the title does nothing, since a title is one line.

Moving between songs#

These work anywhere in the editor, including while you type lyrics. The ˄ and ˅ buttons beside Songs in the song bar do the same.

"Next" means the next song in the list you opened this one from: the same view (All Songs, Collaborative, a project or Archived), the same search and the same sort. The order is fixed when you open the song, so a list sorted by Last Edited doesn't reshuffle as you write. If you opened the song from Home or a link, it follows All Songs in your usual sort. At the top or bottom of the list it stops rather than wrapping round. Your changes are saved before the next song opens.

Writing tools#

These act on what you have selected, or on the word at the cursor when nothing is.

The workspace#

Rhyme colours and the lyric sheet have no keys of their own; find them in the command palette.

Esc deals with one thing at a time. If an in-line suggestion is showing, the first press dismisses it and the second leaves the tool. See The desktop workspace.

Wish Workshop#

These work once results are showing, and not while you are typing your wish.

The results start with your original line. Enter does whatever the main button at the top right says, such as Replace Selection. Pick a different action from that button's menu and it becomes what Enter does for that kind of wish. See Wish Workshop.

Rhymes, thesaurus and syllables#

To move between pages of rhyme columns in the narrow panel, click the arrows or dots under the columns.

Genie#

See Genie chat.

Recordings#

Click the waveform, or move to it with Tab, to select it.

Concepts#

While editing a concept:

Everywhere else#

These work while you're not typing in a box.