Desktop App Shortcut Sheet
An exclusive resource for students of Arun's Claude Code Course.
On Windows, use Control everywhere this sheet says Command.
You do not have to remember any of this. Cmd + / brings up every shortcut the app has, any time you want it.
| Shortcut | What it opens |
|---|---|
Cmd / | Every shortcut the app has |
Cmd N | A second session, listed down the left sidebar |
Ctrl Tab | Moves between your open sessions |
Ctrl ` | A terminal pane inside the app, already in your project folder |
Cmd Shift B | The browser pane, pointed at any site you like |
Cmd Shift M | The permission mode menu. Each mode has a number, so you pick with one key |
Cmd Shift E | The effort menu, picked the same way |
Cmd Shift I | The model list |
Cmd ; | A side chat. It reads the main conversation and never adds anything back into it |
Ctrl O | Cycles the transcript view: Normal, Thinking, Verbose, Summary |
Esc Esc | On an empty input line, opens the rewind menu |
Ctrl G | Opens a plan in your own text editor before Claude builds from it |
@ | Filename autocomplete inside the prompt box |
/ | The full slash command list |
The four transcript views
| View | What it shows | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | Tool work folded down into short lines | Everyday work |
| Thinking | Adds Claude's reasoning beside the answer | When you want to see how it got there |
| Verbose | Every file read, every command, every step | The day you are working out why Claude did something strange |
| Summary | What Claude said and what changed | Coming back to yesterday's conversation. It is the difference between scrolling for five minutes and reading the outcome in twenty seconds |
Rewind and fork
Both live on your own earlier messages. Hover over one and three controls appear.
- Rewind takes this conversation back to that point. Claude saves the state of your files before each thing you ask, so every prompt in that list is somewhere you can stand.
- Fork leaves this conversation exactly as it is and starts a second one from that point. Use it when you want to try a different approach without losing the one you have. Both end up in your sidebar.
Two honest limits. It only tracks files Claude edited through its own editing tools, so anything a shell command deleted or moved sits outside it. And it is not version control. Treat it as the undo inside today's session and keep git for the permanent history.
See Where You Stand
This resource is one piece of a much bigger system.
Take the free Claude Code Readiness Quiz. It is 15 short situations, scored out of 100, and it tests how you handle a job rather than what you know about a tool, so you can take it without ever having opened Claude Code.
Take the Claude Code Readiness Quiz →15 situations · Scored out of 100 · Free