All shortcuts can be customized in Cotypist’s Shortcuts settings.

Complete the next word

Inserts just the next word from the current suggestion, then lets you keep typing. Often the first few words of a completion are what you want, and the rest isn’t — press this repeatedly to walk through a completion word by word. Surprisingly effective in practice.

There’s also an option to include a trailing space after single-word completions, so you can continue typing the next word immediately without pressing Space.

Accept the full completion

Inserts the entire suggestion at once. On most keyboard layouts, this defaults to the key directly above Tab (`, §, or ^ depending on your layout). On some keyboards where that key produces a commonly-used character, this shortcut is left unassigned — you can set your own in Cotypist’s Shortcuts settings.

Force-activate completions

Tells Cotypist to start suggesting in the current field, even if it wouldn’t normally activate there. Useful in terminals for regular command-line usage, or in other apps where Cotypist stays idle by default to avoid getting in the way. On some keyboard layouts, this shortcut may be unassigned — you can set your own in Cotypist’s Shortcuts settings.

Temporarily toggle completions in the current app

Quickly turns completions off for a few minutes in the current application, or back on if they’re currently disabled. Good for short breaks where you want to type without Cotypist in a single app, without changing any settings.

Toggle completions globally

Disables completions everywhere until you press the shortcut again. Useful when you want Cotypist to stay out of the way entirely for a while — during a call, a screen share, or focused writing.

Open Cotypist’s Shortcuts settings, click the recorder field next to any action, and press the key combination you want to use.

If you use a non-US keyboard layout and the shortcut recorder shows a different key than expected, that’s normal — pressing the physical key you want to use is what matters, even if the display label differs.

Cotypist tries to avoid activating in small fields that you just need to quickly “tab through”, but finding the perfect balance is difficult. Here are several options when Tab interferes:

• Option+Tab bypass: Press Option+Tab (or Option-click the Cotypist icon next to the text field) to send a regular Tab keypress, even when Cotypist is active. This will move to the next form field.
• Escape, then Tab: Press Esc to temporarily disable completions in the current text field, then Tab will behave normally.
• Disable Tab per-app: You can disable the Tab shortcut in specific apps (from the Cotypist icon next to the text field) while keeping the key-above-Tab shortcut enabled. This is a good compromise — the single-word shortcut is often more useful than the full-completion shortcut anyway.
• Disable globally: As a last resort, you can disable the Tab shortcut entirely in Cotypist’s settings and rely solely on the key-above-Tab shortcut for full completions.
• Disable Cotypist in your browser: You can also completely disable Cotypist in your browser while keeping it active in other apps.