Keyboard Shortcuts¶
Summary
Every keystroke Jade GT recognises, grouped by what it does. Press ? anywhere outside a text field to open the in-app cheatsheet, or use this page when you want a printable copy.
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Triage
Pick, reject, color-label, and rate the selected photo without touching the mouse.
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Edit and save
Undo edits, commit the batch, and walk through the gallery one photo at a time.
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Help and dialogs
Open the in-app cheatsheet, close any dialog, and reset a field to its imported value.
Mac users substitute Cmd for Ctrl
On macOS, every shortcut listed with Ctrl also works with Cmd. The in-app cheatsheet shows ⌘ symbols; this page uses Ctrl to keep the tables short.
Command Palette¶
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Open the palette
Press Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows / Linux) from anywhere in Jade GT. Type to filter. Enter runs the top result. Esc closes the palette.
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What it does
The Command Palette is the in-app launcher. Search every action in the workspace from one box: open Cull Mode, swap themes, jump to a tab, open Phone Metadata, run Match, and more.
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When to reach for it
When you are not sure where a feature lives. The palette knows the full menu and never moves under the cursor. It is the fastest way to get back to a workflow you used last week.
Mouse-free triage
Pair the palette with Space (Quick Look), C (Compare), and P / R (pick / reject) for a near keyboard-only triage loop.
Triage¶
These values stay in Jade GT, on this device only. Jade GT never writes them to EXIF, matching Lightroom's default behavior. They survive a session restore.
| Keys | Action |
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| P | Pick the selected photo (mark for export) |
| M | Mark the selected photo as Maybe (carry into a second pass) |
| X | Reject the selected photo (filter out) |
| U | Unflag the selected photo |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | Set a 1-to-5 star rating on the selected photo |
| 0 | Clear the star rating on the selected photo |
| 6 | Apply the red color label |
| 7 | Apply the yellow color label |
| 8 | Apply the green color label |
| 9 | Apply the blue color label |
Press the active color again to clear it
The 6-9 keys are toggles. If a photo already has the red label and you press 6 again, the label clears.
Triage carries through a collapsed stack
With a collapsed stack keeper selected, pressing P, M, X, or U applies to every frame in the stack at once. Expand the stack first if you want a per-frame pass.
Reject inside a stack hints the rest
Pressing X on a single frame inside an expanded stack does not auto-reject the rest. The other frames pick up a soft red dotted ring (candidate reject) so you notice they probably belong in the bin too. Press X to confirm or U to clear the hint.
Photo navigation¶
| Keys | Action |
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| Ctrl + Right | Move to the next photo in the gallery |
| Ctrl + Left | Move to the previous photo in the gallery |
| Space | Open or close Quick Look on the active photo |
| Left / Right (inside Quick Look) | Walk to the previous or next photo without leaving the overlay |
| C | Open or close Compare / Survey for 2 to 4 selected photos |
| 1 to 4 (inside Compare) | Make tile 1, 2, 3, or 4 the active one |
| P (inside Compare) | Pick the active tile, reject the rest, close |
| M (inside Compare) | Mark the active tile as Maybe, keep the overlay open |
| X (inside Compare) | Reject every tile and close |
| U (inside Compare) | Clear the flag on every tile, keep the overlay open |
| Drag inside any Compare tile | Pan all tiles together (synced) |
| Mouse wheel inside a Compare tile | Zoom all tiles together, anchored to the cursor |
| 0 (inside Compare) | Reset the synced pan and zoom |
Both arrow shortcuts use your active library filter. If the gallery is filtered to "picks only," the arrows walk that subset. Quick Look uses the same filter so the next/previous arrows skip photos that the current chip hides.
Edit and save¶
| Keys | Action |
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| Ctrl+Z | Undo the last metadata edit (50-step history, pre-commit only) |
| Ctrl+S | Open the Review Hub to confirm and write the batch |
| Ctrl+Enter | Inside the Review Hub, fire Write Changes to Disk |
| Right-click on a Tags field | Reset that field to the value it had when imported |
Undo stops at commit
The undo history covers staged edits only. Once you commit, the changes hit disk and Ctrl+Z no longer reaches them. See Review & Commit for the commit flow.
Undo survives a reload
Your browser saves the last 50 edits and the last 100 removed photos, so closing the tab or refreshing the page doesn't wipe your undo history. Picking a brand-new project (the Disconnect or New Project actions) is what clears it.
Search and opening¶
| Keys | Action |
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| Ctrl+P | Focus the Location tab's search bar |
| Shift + click on Open Photos | Skip the menu and jump straight to the folder picker |
Modals and help¶
| Keys | Action |
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| ? | Open the in-app keyboard-shortcut cheatsheet |
| Esc | Close the active dialog (cheatsheet, Review Hub, Quick Look, Compare, Welcome dialog, picker windows) |
Cull Mode¶
Cull Mode is the full-screen single-focus culling workspace. Open it from the Command Palette with Cmd+K then Open Cull Mode. Once it's up, its own keymap takes over.
| Keys | Action |
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| P | Pick the active photo and advance |
| M | Mark the active photo as Maybe and advance |
| X | Reject the active photo and advance |
| U | Unflag the active photo (stays in place) |
| 1 to 5 | Set a 1-to-5 star rating on the active photo |
| 0 | Clear the star rating |
| Right / Left | Step through the queue (skips rejects) |
| Tab | Jump to the next burst |
| A | Toggle the audio cadence on or off |
| Esc | Close Cull Mode |
See the Cull Mode guide for the full workflow.
Related guides¶
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Where the triage keys (P, X, U, 1-9, 0) and the prev/next arrows show their effect on screen.
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Where right-click resets a field to its imported value.
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Where Ctrl+S takes the batch from staged to saved on disk.
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Common problems and their fixes, grouped by area.
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Definitions for EXIF, IPTC, XMP, GPX, and the rest of the vocabulary used across this guide.