If you appreciate efficiency, you'll love our quick menu. You can add and edit content, collaborate with others, and search and manage your workspace by using powerful keyboard shortcuts and commands.

You can read the instructions on this page or watch the short video below to learn how to access the quick menu and how to use it to edit slides and manage collaboration.

🎓 This video is part of our introduction series. Watch all videos on the Pitch Academy channel on YouTube.

Simply type Command + K (or Control + K on Windows), click the magnifying glass in the top right of your workspace, or click the lightning bolt in the top right of the editor toolbar while editing a presentation.

You might be familiar with command palettes or command centers from tools like Superhuman, Slack, and Linear. Keyboard-first interactions are also popular in the gaming industry, but while the quick menu in Pitch does contain keyboard shortcuts, it also helps you find other actions faster, like changing the status of a slide or inserting a text block.

You’ll find several single-letter shortcuts and submenus in our quick menu. Single-letter shortcuts allow you to leave your other hand on the mouse, and are faster to use than a combination of two or more keys. Submenus offer filtered lists to give you the most relevant options for an action. For example, when you press S, you will see a submenu with all available shapes you can add.

Now, here’s a selection of what you can do from the quick menu.

Add new slides and blocks to your presentation

When you’re working in the editor, you’ll most likely want to add some content. Try out these options first:

Position your images

If you open the quick menu while an image is selected, you'll be able position your image using these options:

Use submenus to add shapes and lists

Some content types — like shapes and lists — have their own submenu that you can bring up through a single-key shortcut. For instance, if you're working on a slide and would like to insert a bullet list, press L to bring up the list submenu, and then B to add the right list type (in this case, a bulleted list).

Navigate and collaborate faster

In addition to adding content, you can navigate your account, open other presentations, and use collaboration features using the quick menu:

💡 Searching for a specific presentation? The fastest way is to type the title into the quick menu, either from the dashboard or the editor, to find and open it in a new tab.