The essential keyboard shortcuts

Start with opening, choosing, confirming and closing. What a key does depends on where your cursor is.

Open and navigate

Control	Use	Important scope
Right Option, tapped alone	Open Ouros; change mode in the compact bar	Ouros must be running. Global use depends on keyboard access. Expanded views can handle the control differently.
Up Arrow / Down Arrow	Change the selected result	A result list must have focus.
Return	Activate the selected result or submit input	In Commands, this can execute a shell command. Review the input first.
Escape	Leave the current layer or dismiss the compact bar	A nested view or terminal may handle the first press.
Right Control, tapped alone	Dismiss or return from the current screen	Some expanded views return to a smaller view before closing.

In the Notes editor

Control	Use	Check afterward
Command K	Open the editor’s action palette	Choose an action by its actual label.
Command S	Save the current note	Check for a save error, then use Reveal saved note to locate the file.

The Notes palette includes Save note, Record note or Stop recording, and Copy text. Reveal saved note appears after a successful save; Play recording requires an available audio attachment.

Voice is optional

A solo Right Command tap starts or stops voice input for the current destination when the required access is available. Do not use a voice-input key as a submission key. Review the transcribed words before Return.

Dictate at the caret

In the local Ouros X 2.1.10 candidate, click an editable field in Ouros or another app and place the caret or select text. Tap Right Command alone, speak, and tap it again to stop. Words can change as recognition refines them; review the result before sending. Dictation does not press Return. Native Ouros fields and supported accessibility fields replace the dictated range as it changes. Some apps need the keyboard-event fallback and may behave differently. Password fields and secure input are not dictation destinations.

Microphone and Speech Recognition permission are required. Inserting into another app also requires Accessibility permission. Global shortcut use needs the relevant keyboard access. If the shortcut does nothing, check the permission message and confirm that the intended app and field have focus. If you move the caret or edit a supported field during a take, dictation stops rather than overwriting the change.

Tune the microphone

In Settings > App behavior > Dictation audio, processing is optional. To calibrate, turn off Voice Wake, choose Start calibration, stay quiet for the room measurement, then speak normally. Review the result and select Apply. It affects the next dictation; calibration audio is not saved and retained recordings stay unprocessed. A changed microphone or a noisy or clipped measurement may require calibration again. To return to bypass, turn off Process dictation audio and select Apply.

Processing can help some microphones and rooms, but it is not a guaranteed speed or accuracy improvement. The on-device recognizer supplies partial words as it processes speech, so a short delay and later corrections are possible.

If a shortcut does nothing

1. Confirm Ouros is running.
2. Try Open Ouros from its app menu.
3. Put focus in the relevant field, list, or editor.
4. Check keyboard permission and assigned controls.
5. Reproduce with a non-sensitive query such as Safari.

Your key assignments may differ from what you have seen elsewhere, so check yours in Settings. Do not turn off macOS security, reset every permission or change unrelated keyboard settings to fix one shortcut.

Continue

Take notes when you cannot slow down uses the Notes controls in a complete save-and-check procedure.