Shortcuts & the palette
You don't need to learn any of these to use Galley, but once you know a few you'll hardly need the mouse. None of them clash with your browser's own shortcuts.
The palette: search the whole book
This is the one to learn first. Press Palette ⌘K and start typing. It searches the whole book, and shows results in groups: chapters, characters, places, research, glossary, references, then actions. Press Enter to go to a result. It's a quick way to check a date on your timeline in the middle of a sentence and get back to writing.
- It handles typos and accents, so
rownafinds Rowan andcafefinds the Café. It doesn't correct typos in searches under four letters, because short words match too many things. - Searching for a nickname finds the character it belongs to, under their real name.
- It searches the full text of your research, including the passage and your notes, not just the title.
- If you search for more than one word, results have to match all of them, so adding words narrows the results.
Searching your prose opens Find. If the word you searched for is also in the manuscript, the last row tells you, like 7 matches in 3 chapters. Choosing it opens Find & replace in the chapter with the most matches, with the word already filled in. So the palette is for everything except the text itself, and Find is for the text.
The palette only searches the book you have open, not your other books.
CHAPTER ONE
A Scandal in Bohemia
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind.
I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.
“Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”
Cuttings
Research
Glossary
In the manuscript
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
He waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.
* * *
“Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”
Command palette
⌘K
Search chapters, research, the glossary and the manuscript from one box, and jump straight there.
Every shortcut
If you forget one, press ? anywhere to see the full list, which is the same as the one 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 the right key for your computer.