Customizing River

Keyboard Shortcuts

River is keyboard-first. Almost everything you can click, you can press a shortcut for.

Shortcuts are shown for Mac. Replace Cmd with Ctrl on Windows and Linux.

Shortcut	Action
Cmd K	Quick actions — find, open or create anything
Cmd J	Chat — show or hide it
Cmd \	Windows — the list of open windows
Cmd Shift K	Switch Space
Cmd Shift O	Switch Org / Dataspace
Cmd N	New entity (context-aware)
Cmd W	Close current Window
Cmd Shift W	Close all Windows in this Space
Cmd ,	Open Settings

SpaceChat#

Shortcut	Action
Cmd click	Ask River about anything on screen: what you clicked, or the text you selected. "Open this", "rewrite this", "give me 5 versions"
Cmd drag	Ask River about an area of the screen
Cmd Shift drag	Draw around part of the screen to ask about it

The Quick ask button in the top bar does the same: click it, then click or drag anywhere.

Shortcut	Action
/	Slash command menu
Cmd B / I / U	Bold / Italic / Underline
Cmd K	Insert link (in editor context)
Cmd Shift X	Strikethrough
Cmd Z / Cmd Shift Z	Undo / Redo
Cmd Alt H	Open version history

Shortcut	Action
Cmd Shift J	Open SpaceChat from anywhere
Cmd Shift N	Quick capture from anywhere

These can be remapped in Settings → Shortcuts.

Every shortcut listed above is rebindable. Open Settings → Shortcuts for the full list and to set your own preferences.

The single highest-leverage shortcut is Cmd K. Learn it; use it for everything.
Cmd click brings River to whatever you're looking at: select a sentence and ask for a better one, or click a name and say "open this".
The second is Cmd J — Chat is the universal command surface.
If you're using the desktop app, set the global shortcut to something you'll actually press without thinking.