Shortcuts & the palette
You don't need to memorise any of this to use Galley. But once a few become habit you'll barely touch the mouse, and that keeps you in the writing. Every shortcut below is chosen so it doesn't collide with what your browser already does with that key.
The palette: search the whole book
Learn this one first. Press Palette ⌘K and start typing. It doesn't search a menu. it searches the book, and answers in groups: chapters, cast, places, research, glossary, references, then the actions. Press Enter to go straight there. Mid-sentence you can bounce to your timeline to check a date and be back before you've lost the thread.
- It forgives a typo and it folds accents, so
rownafinds Rowan andcafefinds the Café, but it won't guess below four letters, where everything is one slip away from everything. - Aliases count. Searching a nickname finds the character it belongs to, under their real name.
- Research is searched all the way through: the passage and your note on it, not just the title. Which is the point: a clipping you can summon mid-scene is worth keeping.
- Every word of a multi-word search has to land somewhere, so two words narrow rather than widen.
Prose is handed to Find, not searched twice. If your word also appears in the manuscript, the last row says so, 7 matches in 3 chapters, and choosing it opens Find & replace in the chapter with the most hits, with the word already typed. One search for prose, one for everything else, and no doubt about which you're in.
The palette searches the book you're in. The cast of book two is noise while you're drafting book one.
CHAPTER ONE
The Station at Dusk
At Weirwater the lamps were lit by hand, and it was Mara Vale who lit them. She had come down to The Quiet Harbour before the neap, when the water draws back so far it seems to be deciding whether to return.
At Weirwater Station the lamps were not yet lit. Someone had left before the end of their watch, and in a town this size that was not a small thing.
* * *
Whatever the tide left, it left at the keeper's door first. The crossing that mattered was set down in the harbour ledger, in a level hand that did not lie so much as decline to explain.
He read the flats the way other men read the paper, for news of what the sea had been doing while no one watched.
Chapters
Story bible
Actions
At Weirwater the lamps were lit by hand, and it was Mara Vale who lit them, down at The Quiet Harbour before the neap.1
At Weirwater Station the lamps were not yet lit. Someone had left before the end of their watch.
* * *
The crossing that mattered was set down in the harbour ledger, in a level hand.
Command palette
⌘K
Every chapter, every page of the bible, every action — one keystroke away, filtering as you type.
Every shortcut
Forget one? Press ? anywhere and Galley shows the full, current list, the same one printed here.
Navigate
| Press | Does |
|---|---|
| ⌘K | Command palette, jump anywhere |
| ⌘F | Find & replace, across the whole book |
| ? | This shortcuts sheet |
Write
| Press | Does |
|---|---|
| ⌘B / ⌘I / ⌘U | Bold / italic / underline |
| ⌘⇧S | Strikethrough |
| ⇧↵ | Line break inside a paragraph, for verse and addresses |
| ⌘S | Save now (Galley already saves for you) |
| ⌘↵ | Save a comment |
Type --- | Scene break, on its own line |
View
| Press | Does |
|---|---|
| ⌘⇧F | Focus mode (Esc exits) |
| ⌘⇧L | Light / dark page |
| ⌘⇧8 | Show or hide invisible characters |
Organize
| Do | Result |
|---|---|
| Double-click | Rename a chapter or part |
| Drag | Reorder chapters in the sidebar |
| Select text | Comment, or add to Glossary / References |
On Windows and Linux, ⌘ is Ctrl. The tables above show whichever of the two your keyboard has, so what you are reading should already be right.