Keyboard Shortcuts

File operations

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+N`	New presentation
`Ctrl+O`	Open file
`Ctrl+S`	Save (opens Save As if the file has never been saved)
`Ctrl+Shift+S`	Save As
`Ctrl+Shift+F`	Toggle focus mode
`F5`	Start presentation from the first slide
`Shift+F5`	Start presentation from the current editor slide

Editor

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl+B`	Wrap selection in bold (`…`)
`Ctrl+I`	Wrap selection in italic (`…`)
`Ctrl+1`	Toggle H1 heading on the current line
`Ctrl+2`	Toggle H2 heading on the current line
`Ctrl+3`	Toggle H3 heading on the current line
`Ctrl+4`	Toggle H4 heading on the current line
`Ctrl+5`	Toggle H5 heading on the current line
`Ctrl+6`	Toggle H6 heading on the current line
`Ctrl+C`	Copy
`Ctrl+X`	Cut
`Ctrl+V`	Paste — also pastes clipboard images directly into the editor
`Ctrl+Z`	Undo
`Ctrl+Shift+Z`	Redo
`Ctrl++`	Zoom editor in (increase font size)
`Ctrl+-`	Zoom editor out (decrease font size)
`Ctrl+0`	Reset editor zoom to default
`Ctrl+↑` / `PageUp`	Move to previous slide
`Ctrl+↓` / `PageDown`	Move to next slide
`Ctrl+Home`	Jump to first slide
`Ctrl+End`	Jump to last slide

You can also zoom with Ctrl+scroll (mouse wheel).

Heading shortcuts: pressing the same level again removes the heading marker — Ctrl+2 on an existing ## line strips it back to plain text.

Slide navigation: the Ctrl+Arrow and Ctrl+Home/Ctrl+End shortcuts move the cursor to the first line of the target slide and scroll it into view. On macOS, Cmd replaces Ctrl.

Bold / Italic with no selection: if nothing is selected, Ctrl+B inserts bold text and Ctrl+I inserts italic text, with the placeholder pre-selected so you can type immediately.

Presentation mode

Key	Action
`→` / `↓` / `Space` / `PageDown`	Next slide
`←` / `↑` / `PageUp`	Previous slide
`Home`	First slide
`End`	Last slide
`N`	Toggle speaker notes panel (single-screen only)
`B`	Toggle black blank screen
`W`	Toggle white blank screen
`L`	Toggle laser pointer
`Esc`	Exit presentation mode

You can also navigate by clicking the left third or right third of the screen in single-screen mode.

Click the slide counter in the HUD to open a number input and jump directly to any slide — or just start typing a digit to open the input immediately, no click needed.

Dual-screen mode

In dual-screen mode the presenter overlay handles all navigation, and speaker notes are always visible — no key press required. See Presenting for full details.

Customising shortcuts

The five file-level shortcuts can be remapped via ~/.kova/keybindings.yaml:

new_file:   ctrl+n
open_file:  ctrl+o
save:       ctrl+s
save_as:    ctrl+shift+s
focus_mode: ctrl+shift+f

Editor shortcuts (Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, heading toggles) and presentation navigation keys are not currently remappable.

See Settings & Keybindings for the full format and supported modifier/key names.