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The keymap

The layers

One pad, several jobs. The touch strip on the board's lower edge cycles it through its layers: the review layer that AssureSwarm lights when an agent stops for a human, and the utility layers for everything else. These are the two utility layers you live on, the Navigation layer for moving between windows, tabs and dashboards, and the Working layer for editing what is in front of you.

The diagrams show the published utility-layer layout. You can customize the controls in INPUT. Press the dial to pull the map back up: on the Navigation layer it opens this page, on the Working layer it toggles the on-screen cheat sheet.

Utility layer · 1 of 2

The navigation layer

Getting around: apps, browser tabs, dashboards. Each modifier starts a row with the keys it chords with beside it, so every shortcut here is two adjacent fingertips, not a stretch.

DIAL← →
ESCdismiss
DELdelete
STICKdashboards
WINstart · hold
ALThold
TAB
F4
CTRLhold
N
T
W
SPACE
MACROsaved snippet
ENTER
TOUCH STRIPnext layer

The stick is an eight-way rose of your saved views: up is the workspace home, upper-right my work, right the AI-activity dashboard, lower-right the universe map, upper-left the dashboards index, left the executive dashboard, and lower-left operations. The bottom sector is the vendor's fixed close on every layer.

The dial arrows left and right; pressing it opens this very page, the pad's own cheat sheet. The wide cap covers two switches: the left half is Space, the right half types a saved snippet.

The underglow turns teal while a change is waiting for your review, and the board goes dark when the queue is clear.

Where the shortcuts sit

  • Alt + Tabswitch between open apps
  • Alt + F4close the app
  • Alt + Spacethe window menu: move, size, minimize
  • Alt + Enterfullscreen, or file properties
  • Ctrl + Tnew browser tab
  • Ctrl + Wclose the tab
  • Ctrl + F4close the document or tab inside the app
  • Ctrl + Nnew window
  • Ctrl + Tabnext tab in the browser
  • Win + Tabtask view, every window at once
  • Wintap alone for the start menu
  • Ctrl + Escthe start menu, from the other corner
  • Ctrl + Winhold both and speak to dictate
  • Ctrl + Alt + Delthe security screen
  • Alt + dialback and forward in the browser

Utility layer · 2 of 2

The working layer

For the moment you are in the work: select it, copy it, move it, fix it. Ctrl starts its row with A, C and V beside it, X and Z sit the row above, so the whole select, copy, paste loop happens on one corner of the pad.

DIALvolume
BKSPerase
DELdelete
STICKarrows
WINstart · hold
TAB
X
Z
CTRLhold
A
C
V
SPACE
PRTSCscreenshot
ENTER
TOUCH STRIPnext layer

The stick is the arrow keys: up, left and right where you expect them, and down on the two lower corners, because the bottom sector is the vendor's fixed close on every layer.

The dial turns the volume; pressing it toggles the on-screen cheat sheet. The wide cap covers two switches: the left half is Space, the right half is Print Screen.

The underglow rests teal on this layer.

Where the shortcuts sit

  • Ctrl + Ccopy
  • Ctrl + Vpaste
  • Ctrl + Xcut
  • Ctrl + Zundo
  • Ctrl + Aselect all
  • Ctrl + Bkspdelete the word before the cursor
  • Ctrl + Deldelete the word after it
  • Ctrl + Entersend, in apps where Enter is a newline
  • Ctrl + Winhold both and speak to dictate
  • Win + Vclipboard history
  • Win + PrtScrsave a screenshot
  • Win + Xthe power-user menu
  • Win + Aquick settings: volume, wifi, brightness
  • Ctrl + Tabnext tab in the browser
  • Ctrl + stickjump word by word

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