7 tools · 52 shortcuts · each section verified against the vendor’s own documentation. Jump to: Zapier (8) · Make (Integromat) (8) · Power Automate (8) · Activepieces (6) · Insomnia (9) · Notion Calendar (7) · Arista EOS (6)
Workflow builders, API clients and network CLIs are mostly operated through forms, canvases and typed commands, so each vendor documents only a handful of keyboard shortcuts. This page groups seven of them so that the keys can be compared side by side: the four automation builders (Zapier, Make, Power Automate, Activepieces) all lean on undo, redo and canvas zoom; Insomnia follows the desktop-app conventions of Postman; Notion Calendar keeps the letter-key navigation of its Cron ancestor; and the Arista EOS rows are CLI editing keys shared with other network operating systems. Each section shows its source and check date.
Zapier's editor became a canvas in 2024, and with it came a small set of canvas shortcuts — undo, copy and paste steps, zoom, pan — that are the whole keyboard surface of building a Zap. Configuring steps and mapping fields remain mouse work. The notes below explain what each key acts on, which is less obvious than in a document.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + Z | Undo |
| Ctrl + Shift + Z | Redo |
| Ctrl + C | Copy |
| Ctrl + V | Paste |
| Delete | Delete |
| Ctrl + A | Select all |
| Ctrl + +/- | Zoom in/out |
| Space + Drag | Pan canvas |
Steps travel with their settings: Ctrl + C copies one and Ctrl + V pastes it, within a Zap or between Zaps, so a configured Formatter or a filter with several conditions can be reused instead of rebuilt. Removing a step with Delete joins its neighbours back together automatically. Ctrl + A selects every step, which with copy gives you a way to duplicate a whole branch. Structural changes and field edits can be walked back with Ctrl + Z and forward again with Ctrl + Shift + Z.
Ctrl + +/- zooms and Space + Drag pans — hold the space bar and drag anywhere. A Zap with paths and loops gets wide quickly, and the pan-and-zoom pair is faster than scrolling. Steps can be dragged to reorder; dropping onto a connector inserts.
Testing a step, turning a Zap on, renaming it and opening the field picker are all buttons. Zapier updates the editor often and adds shortcuts without announcing them; the canvas help menu lists the current set for your account.
Make (formerly Integromat) draws automations as a circular-module diagram, and its keyboard surface is the canvas basics: save, copy and paste modules, run once, zoom and pan. The set is small and stable; what is worth knowing is what each key does to a scenario, since modules carry connections and mappings with them.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + S | Save |
| Ctrl + C | Copy module |
| Ctrl + V | Paste module |
| Ctrl + Enter | Run once |
| + | Zoom in |
| - | Zoom out |
| Space + Drag | Pan canvas |
| Shift + Drag | Multi-select |
Ctrl + C copies the selected module — its app, action and field mappings — and Ctrl + V pastes it into the scenario, or into another scenario open in a second tab; mappings that reference modules not present in the target show as unresolved and must be remapped. Shift + Drag selects several modules at once so a whole branch can be copied or moved. Deleting is the module's menu rather than a key.
Ctrl + Enter runs the scenario once from the trigger with live data, and the execution inspector then shows every bundle each module received and produced — the way to debug a mapping. Ctrl + S saves; Make warns on leaving an unsaved scenario, but there is no autosave, so save before running a long test. Scheduling and turning a scenario on remain toggle switches.
+ and - zoom; panning is Space + Drag, with the space bar held while dragging any empty area. The auto-align button in the toolbar tidies a scenario that has grown into a tangle, and is the one to press before copying modules so their positions come across sensibly.
Power Automate's cloud flow designer moved to a canvas in 2024, and with it came a familiar set of editing keys — save, undo, redo, copy and paste actions, zoom — plus F5 to test. The table covers that designer; Power Automate Desktop has a separate keymap. Copy and paste is the one to learn, because it works across flows.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + S | Save |
| Ctrl + Z | Undo |
| Ctrl + Y | Redo |
| Ctrl + C | Copy |
| Ctrl + V | Paste |
| F5 | Test run |
| Ctrl + Shift + P | Command palette |
| Ctrl + +/- | Zoom in/out |
A selected action, parameters included, is copied with Ctrl + C; Ctrl + V then drops it in after the current action — including into a different flow in another tab, which is how a configured HTTP action or a parsed-JSON step gets reused. Ctrl + Z undoes and Ctrl + Y redoes structural changes and parameter edits. Ctrl + S saves; the designer checks the flow and lists errors before it will save, so a save that fails is pointing at a missing required field.
F5 starts a test run, offering manual trigger or reuse of a recent run's trigger data — the second option is what makes iterating on a flow fast. Designer actions without a key live in the command palette (Ctrl + Shift + P); zooming the canvas is Ctrl + +/-; a flow with several conditions and loops needs both.
Power Automate for desktop (RPA) is a separate application with its own editor and shortcuts, and the mobile app has none of these. Because the cloud designer is updated monthly, the in-product help lists the shortcuts for the version you see.
Activepieces is an open-source automation builder in the mould of Zapier and n8n, and its flow editor keeps to the standard editing keys: undo, redo, copy and paste steps, delete, save. The table is short because that is the whole keyboard surface of the current release; the notes explain what those keys do to a flow, which is less obvious than in a text editor.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl + Z | Undo |
| Ctrl + Shift + Z | Redo |
| Ctrl + C | Copy step |
| Ctrl + V | Paste step |
| Delete | Delete step |
| Ctrl + S | Save flow |
Ctrl + C copies the selected step with its settings and Ctrl + V pastes it after the currently selected step, which is how a configured HTTP request or a formatted email gets reused within a flow. Copying works across flows in the same project, so a step built once can be pasted into another automation. Delete removes the selected step and reconnects the flow around it; a branch step takes its branches with it.
Ctrl + Z and Ctrl + Shift + Z undo and redo edits to the flow graph and to step settings. Ctrl + S saves; Activepieces autosaves drafts as you work, but the key confirms the draft before testing. Publishing a flow — turning the draft into the live version — is a button rather than a key, as is running a test of a single step or the whole flow.
Step configuration, the data selector that inserts values from earlier steps, and the pieces catalogue are mouse-driven in the current interface, and self-hosted builds match the cloud version. Because the editor is under active development, shortcuts are added without a changelog entry; check the editor's help panel for the build you are on.
Insomnia is an API client, and its shortcuts are shaped by the request loop: create a request, set the URL, send, read the response, repeat with a different environment. The table follows Insomnia's reference for Windows and Linux; on macOS use Cmd. Environments are the feature that separates Insomnia from a browser tab, and they have a key.
| Shortcut | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl + Enter | Send request | Send API request. |
| Ctrl + N | New request | Create new request. |
| Ctrl + E | Switch env | Switch environment. |
| Ctrl + Shift + P | Command palette | Open command palette. |
| Ctrl + T | New tab | Open new tab. |
| Ctrl + P | Quick switch | Jump to any request by typing its name. |
| Ctrl + L | Focus URL | Move the cursor to the request URL bar. |
| Ctrl + D | Duplicate request | Duplicate the current request. |
| Ctrl + , | Preferences | Open Insomnia settings. |
Ctrl + N creates a request in the current collection, Ctrl + L focuses the URL bar, and Ctrl + Enter sends — the three-key cycle of API development. Ctrl + D duplicates the current request, which is faster than creating one when the new call differs by a path segment or a body field. Ctrl + T opens a new tab so two requests can be compared side by side.
Ctrl + E opens the environment switcher; environments hold variables such as base_url and tokens, referenced in requests as {{ _.base_url }}, so the same collection runs against local, staging and production by switching once. Ctrl + P is quick switch, a fuzzy finder for requests and collections by name that replaces scrolling a long sidebar.
Actions without a key are reached through the command palette on Ctrl + Shift + P, and Ctrl + , opens preferences — themes, proxy, certificate handling, and the shortcut editor where any binding can be changed. The response pane, code generation and the Inso CLI for running collections in CI are mouse and terminal features.
Notion Calendar (formerly Cron) is a calendar app that assumes you keep your hands on the keyboard, and its shortcuts are single letters: create, next, previous, today, and numbers for views. The table lists them; the notes explain how they combine with the command menu and the Notion integration that makes this calendar different from the one in your browser.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| C | Create event |
| N | Next period |
| P | Previous period |
| T | Today |
| 1 | Day view |
| 3 | 3-day view |
| 5 | Week view |
T returns to today, and N and P move to the next and previous period — a day, three days or a week depending on the current view. 1, 3 and 5 switch to day, three-day and week views (7 shows a full week including weekends, and M the month). The arrow keys move the focus between events once one is selected, and Enter opens it.
C creates an event at the current time or the selected slot and opens the inline editor, where the title accepts natural language for the time ("standup 9:30 tomorrow"). With an event selected, Backspace deletes it, D duplicates it and the arrow keys with Shift resize it. Cmd/Ctrl + K opens the command menu for everything else — joining a call, changing calendar, adding a Notion doc.
Events can attach a Notion page for notes, and Notion databases with date properties can be shown as calendars beside Google and iCloud events. The availability tool (A in some versions) selects free slots to paste as text into an email. Notion Calendar's in-app shortcut list (? or the command menu) is the reference for the version installed.
Arista EOS uses an industry-standard CLI that anyone from a Cisco IOS background can drive on day one, and the six commands in this table are the ones that answer "what is this switch, what is up, and where does traffic go" before any change is made. The notes add the EOS-specific habits — JSON output, the running-config in a database, and how saving works.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| show version | Version |
| show interfaces status | Interface status |
| show ip route | Routing table |
| show vlan | VLAN list |
| configure terminal | Config mode |
| write memory | Save config |
show version prints the model, EOS release and uptime; support asks for it first. show interfaces status is the fastest way to see every port with its link state, VLAN, speed and description on one screen, and show vlan lists VLANs with member ports. show ip route shows the routing table with protocol codes, and adding a prefix narrows it to one destination. Every show command in EOS accepts | json for structured output, which scripts should use instead of parsing text.
configure terminal (or just configure) enters global configuration mode; interface and routing contexts nest beneath it and exit steps back out. EOS keeps the running configuration in a state database (Sysdb) that every agent reads, so a change is live the moment it is entered. write memory — or copy running-config startup-config — saves it so it survives a reboot; until then, show running-config diffs shows what is unsaved.
show running-config section interface Ethernet1 prints just one block, show interfaces counters finds errors and discards, and bash drops to the underlying Linux shell where tcpdump on a port works as it would on a server. Configuration sessions (configure session) let you stage a set of changes, check them with show session-config diffs, and commit or abort as one unit.
Undo and redo (Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Shift + Z or Ctrl + Y) work in every builder here, and each one has a key to fit the canvas to the window. Beyond that the keymaps are product-specific.
Its documented shortcuts are command-line editing keys rather than a GUI keymap, and the list is short. It sits here with the other small ops keymaps; the larger network CLIs (Cisco IOS, Junos, MikroTik) have their own pages.
Many overlap because both are Electron desktop apps — Ctrl + Enter to send, Ctrl + N for a new request — but the documented sets differ; the Postman page lists its full keymap.