You can use your keyboard to work faster with Annotator. These shortcuts help you highlight, write, and navigate without needing to use your mouse for every click.
| Action | Shortcut | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Create Highlight | h | Create a new Highlight at the selected text |
| Create Annotation | a | Create a new Annotation at the selected text |
| Show anchored annotations | s | Moves focus to the annotation Card in the Sidebar to show which annotations are anchored to the currently selected text |
| Show/hide highlights | ctrl + shift + h | Turns the highlights over selected text on and off |
| Search | / | Moves focus to the search field in sidebar |
| Post annotation | ctrl + enter (Windows) or cmd + enter (Mac) | Current focus must be in edit window |
| Load new updates | l | Shortcut is only active when the sidebar is in focus, and there are new annotations posted but not yet shown. This will be announced via the screen reader (if used), and indicated by the appearance of a “new annotations available” icon at the top of the sidebar. |
| Close the Hypothesis Adder | escape | Works when the Adder is open and the user does not want to select “Annotate” or “Highlight”. |