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# Settings & Shortcuts
The [Annotation tool](https://documentation.picsellia.com/docs/dataset-annotation-tool) exposes two panels, from the right-side icon rail, dedicated to personalizing how you work: **Settings**, which holds your display and behavior preferences, and **Shortcuts**, which recaps the keyboard shortcuts currently active, whether at their default value or the one you personalized.
## 1. Settings panel
The **Settings** panel groups your personal preferences for the tool. They apply to your own account and persist across `DatasetVersion`. Once changed, click *Update* to save them.
### A. General
* **Auto move next on submit**: automatically open the next `Asset` in the queue right after submitting or reviewing the current `Annotation`. It doesn't apply to *Save*.
* **Auto-enable draw after release**: automatically re-enable the *Draw* mode after finishing a `Shape`, instead of falling back to *Selection* mode.
* **Default Zoom (%)**: the zoom level applied when opening an `Asset` or using *Reset Zoom*.
### B. Performances
* **Enable cache**: cache the next images in the queue. This aims at speeding up the navigation across the *Asset gallery*, especially if the files to display are big or if you have a slow internet connection.
* **Cache size**: the number of `Asset` kept in cache.
### C. Shapes
* **Shape opacity (%)**: the fill opacity used to display all the `Shape` on the `Asset`.
* **Polygon simplification factor**: how aggressively a polygon `Shape` is simplified when using the *Simplify* action (see [Polygon editing](https://documentation.picsellia.com/docs/dataset-annotation-shape-creation#c-polygon-editing)) — the higher the factor, the more points are removed.
### D. Labels
* **Label Order**: how `Label` are ordered in the `Label` dropdown and the *Shapes* panel (*Default*, *Alphabetical*, or *Reverse Alphabetical*).
* **Display Shape Labels**: show or hide the `Label` name next to each `Shape` on the `Asset`.
### E. Player
On a video `DatasetVersion`, an additional *Player* section configures the video player used to annotate:
* **Annotation Default Duration when created**: the default duration (in frames) given to a new `Annotation` when it is created.
* **Display Skip to End / Beginning control**: show or hide the buttons to jump to the start or end of the video.
* **Display Frame Step controls**: show or hide the buttons to move frame by frame.
* **Enable Interpolation**: automatically interpolate a `Shape`'s position between two keyframes.
* **Cursor out of Timeline behavior**: how the timeline scrolls when the playback cursor reaches its edge (*Stick to the Right*, *Stick to the Middle*, or *Moves back to the left*).
## 2. Consult the active shortcuts
Most of the actions available in the *Annotation tool* can also be triggered through a keyboard shortcut. Shortcuts depend on the context you are in (the *Annotation tool* itself, an *Assets overview*, or globally across Picsellia) and, within the *Annotation tool*, on the *Version Type* of the `DatasetVersion` you are annotating.
The **Shortcuts** panel (right-side icon rail) displays a read-only, always up-to-date recap of every shortcut currently active for the `DatasetVersion` you are annotating, grouped into *Tool* and *Navigation* sections.
## 3. Personalize your shortcuts
Shortcuts can now be personalized on a per-user basis, from your *Profile* settings: click on your avatar, go to *Advanced > Shortcuts*, or access it directly at *Settings > Shortcuts*.
This page lists every action available on Picsellia with its current keystroke, and lets you filter them by *Context*:
* **Studio**: actions available in the *Annotation tool*.
* **Data grid**: actions available in the *Assets*, *Datalake*, or other list/grid views.
* **Global**: actions available anywhere in the product.
Some actions are also scoped to a specific *Version Type* (for instance, the *D* key draws a rectangle in *Object Detection* mode but a polygon in *Segmentation* mode) or to a specific condition, such as being inside an ongoing *Annotation Campaign*.
To personalize a shortcut, click on its row, then *Click to record a shortcut* and press the new key combination. Once changed, the *Source* column of the corresponding row switches from *Default* to *Custom*, so you can always tell at a glance which shortcuts you have overridden. A customized shortcut can be reset back to its *Default* value at any time.
### Shortcuts are personal
Custom shortcuts are tied to your own user account and apply wherever you use Picsellia; they don't affect other members of your `Organization`.
## 4. Reference
The main shortcuts available by default are summarized below. Refer to the *Shortcuts* settings page for the exhaustive and always up-to-date list, including all the *Version Type*-specific variants.
### A. Navigation
| Action | Default shortcut |
| ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Enable select mode | Esc |
| Pan | Space |
| Scroll | Shift + Space |
| Reset Zoom | R |
| Zoom in / out | Cmd/Ctrl + = / - |
| Move to previous / next `Asset` | Shift + Tab / Tab |
| Save `Annotation` | Cmd/Ctrl + S |
| Undo / Redo | Cmd/Ctrl + Z / Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Z |
| Accept / Reject `Annotation` | Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Enter / Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Delete |
| Change active `Label` | 0-9 |
### B. Drawing, by *Version Type*
| Version Type | Draw action | Default shortcut |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| Classification | Classify `Asset` | D |
| Object Detection | Draw rectangle | D |
| Object Detection | Draw rectangles with exemplar box (SAM3) | X |
| Object Detection | Draw rectangles with label prompts (SAM3) | Shift + X |
| Segmentation | Draw polygon | D |
| Segmentation | Draw polygon with pencil | Shift + D |
| Segmentation | Draw polygon with points (SAM3) | X |
| Segmentation | Draw polygon with box (SAM3) | X, 1 |
| Segmentation | Edit polygon with SAM (SAM3) | E, X |
| Segmentation | Cut polygon with scissors | S |
| Segmentation | Add / remove points with pencil | E / Shift + E |
| Segmentation | Draw polygons with points (SAM3) | Shift + X |
| Segmentation | Draw polygons with exemplar box (SAM3) | Shift + X, 1 |
| Segmentation | Draw polygons with label prompts (SAM3) | Shift + X, 2 |
| Segmentation | Draw polygons with text prompts (SAM3) | Shift + X, 3 |
| Mask | Draw mask with pencil | D |
| Mask | Draw mask with brush | Shift + D |
| Mask | Draw mask with point (SAM3) | X |
| Mask | Draw mask with box (SAM3) | X, 1 |
| Mask | Add / remove pixels with pencil | E / Shift + E |
| Mask | Add / remove pixels with brush | Cmd + E / Cmd + Shift + E |
| Mask | Edit mask with SAM (SAM3) | E, X |
| Mask | Draw masks with points (SAM3) | Shift + X |
| Mask | Draw masks with exemplar box (SAM3) | Shift + X, 1 |
| Mask | Draw masks with label prompts (SAM3) | Shift + X, 2 |
| Mask | Draw masks with text prompts (SAM3) | Shift + X, 3 |
| Point | Draw point | D |
| Line | Draw line | D |
| Keypoint | Draw keypoint | D |
| Keypoint | Draw with template (Skeleton) | T |
### Version Type-specific keys
Several of these actions share the same default key (e.g. _D_) because only one _Version Type_ is active at a time on a given `DatasetVersion`. The _Shortcuts_ settings page also lists a distinct key mapping for a _Multi_ Version Type, meant to make every _Version Type_'s shortcuts active at once on the same key; as noted [here](https://documentation.picsellia.com/docs/dataset-annotation-shape-creation), _Multi_ cannot be selected yet, so this mapping is not usable in practice for now.