Keyboard shortcuts

Updated October 2026 · 46 shortcuts

Everything you can do in Tern from the keyboard, grouped the way you'll look for it. Hold ⌘ in Tern to see the same list over the page.

Tern no longer has a sidebar. Its shortcut has become Keep the shelf, ⌘S, and the Room and Spaces have new ones. Shortcuts new to this layout are marked NEW.

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⌘Command⌥Option⌃Control⇧Shift↩Return⇥Tab

The horizon and tabs

11 shortcuts

Open, pin and close pages. Every new page starts in the horizon at the bottom, and anything that needs more room grows up out of it.

ActionKeys
Open the command bar for a new tabType an address, a search or the name of an open tab.⌘T
Edit the address of the current page⌘L
Close the tab⌘W
Reopen the tab you just closedAnything you closed earlier is in History.⇧⌘T
Pin or unpin the tabPinned pages wait on the shelf.⌘D
New folder⌥⌘N
Next tabGrows today's pages up out of the horizon.⌃⇥
Previous tab⌃⇧⇥
Open History⌘Y
Keep the shelfNEWThe shelf slides out at the left edge and goes when you move away. This keeps it open. It replaces Show or hide the sidebar, which was ⌃⌘S.⌘S
New private windowNo agent and no sync, and nothing is kept.⇧⌘P

Spaces and the Room

5 shortcuts

Each Space keeps its own pages, Desks and agent. The Room lays a Space out like a table.

ActionKeys
Open the RoomNEWIts Desks, today's pages, what you pinned and a note. Esc goes back.⌘↑
Previous SpaceNEWOr swipe with two fingers.⌃←
Next SpaceNEW⌃→
Make a new Space⇧⌘N
Switch to Space 1 to 9In the order they appear along the top of the Room. This was ⌘1 to ⌘9.⌃1to⌃9

Desks

10 shortcuts

Desks are numbered by their order on the shelf. To make one without a shortcut, click the + beside Desks on the shelf and choose New Desk…. Lay out a Desk explains the rest.

ActionKeys
Open Desk 1 to 9 in this SpaceHold Option to see the Desk switcher.⌥1to⌥9
Save the split as a Desk⌥⌘S
Show Desk History⌥⌘Y
Show Overview of every Space, Desk and page⇧⌘O
Split with a new pane⌘\
End the split⇧⌘\
Two panes⌃⌘2
Three panes⌃⌘3
Grid of four panes⌃⌘4
Show the focused pane only⇧⌘↩

The agent

5 shortcuts

The agent asks before anything that books, buys, pays, sends, posts, deletes or accepts. Press its button to let it go ahead, or Esc to decline.

ActionKeys
Ask the Space's agentNEWOpens Ask from the horizon. Press again to hide it.⌘J
Open the agent in the split⌥⌘J
Stop the agent⌘.
Approve a step that needs your OKNEWFrom the agent's field or the menu bar's menu.⌘↩
Decline a step that needs your OKNot Now.Esc
Tip Approve with a click on the card's button, or ⌘↩ while you're typing in the agent's field. A bare Return never approves, and ⌘↩ in a page or the command bar never reaches the card, so a stray keystroke can't book or send anything.

Pages

11 shortcuts

Find, read and move around the page you're on.

ActionKeys
Find on the page⌘F
Next match⌘G
Previous match⇧⌘G
Reader⇧⌘R
Reload the page⌘R
Back⌘[
Forward⌘]
Zoom in⌘+
Zoom out⌘-
Actual size⌘0
Print⌘P
Copy page for agent⌥⇧⌘C

Notes

3 shortcuts

Keep a passage from any page, with a link back to it.

ActionKeys
Keep the selection in Notes⌥⌘K
Show Notes⌃⌘N
Start a new Note⌥⇧⌘N

Import

1 shortcut

Bring your tabs from Safari, Chrome, Arc and others, at any time.

ActionKeys
Import from another browser⇧⌘I

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