Keyboard Shortcuts

If you'd rather keep your hands on the keyboard, MailPrism has a small set of shortcuts. The email-action ones are your Quick Actions — so you can change any of them, or turn them all off.

See them in the app

Press ? anywhere in the main app or Settings to open the keyboard shortcuts dialog.

How shortcuts work

• Quick-action shortcuts work in the Inbox when an email is open.
• Quick-action shortcuts and / don't fire while you're typing in a search box, a compose field, or any other text input. Compose shortcuts like Cmd+Enter are meant to be pressed while you type.
• A single master switch controls every quick-action shortcut. Turn it off and the toolbar buttons still work — only the key presses stop. See Quick Actions.
• Modifiers are written with +, e.g. Shift+I.

Default quick-action shortcuts

These ship enabled for every account. You can rename them, change the key, or disable them in Settings → Quick Actions.

Shortcut	Action
E	Archive
S	Star
Shift+I	Mark as read
F	Forward — opens compose in Forward mode when the action has no forwarding address set
Shift+3	Delete (move to trash)

Delete is permanent-ish

Delete moves an email to Gmail's Trash, where it's removed for good after 30 days. Reach for Archive (E) when you just want it out of your inbox.

App-wide shortcuts

Shortcut	Where	Action
Cmd+K / Ctrl+K	Anywhere	Open the command palette — type to find a page or setting (e.g. go to rules, API keys)
?	Main app and Settings	Show the keyboard shortcuts dialog
Esc	Anywhere	Close the open dialog or palette

The command palette isn't a Quick Action, and the Quick Actions switch doesn't turn it off. It takes you to pages and settings — it doesn't run email actions like archive.

Inbox and Replies

Shortcut	Action
/	Focus the search box
Cmd+A / Ctrl+A	Select all visible emails
Esc	Clear the selection

Compose

Shortcut	Action
Cmd+Enter / Ctrl+Enter	Send

Make them yours

Every quick-action shortcut is editable — set a key that fits how you work, add new ones for actions like Apply label, and MailPrism warns you if a key is already taken. Full walkthrough: Quick Actions.

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