Focus mode & typography

Focus Mode (⌘.)

Focus Mode removes everything from the screen except your prose. Press ⌘. to enter it and ⌘. again to exit.

What is hidden

• Outline sidebar
• Scenes panel
• Chapter toolbar and title
• Notes / Drafts capsule buttons
• Stats block and cursor progress bar
• Scene titles in the left margin
• Search and Scenes buttons
• Typography dock

What stays

• Your text
• The cursor
• All keyboard shortcuts — panels and sidebar can still be toggled with ⌘1–⌘4 even when their buttons are invisible

Typewriter scroll

In Focus Mode, the editor switches to typewriter mode: as you type, the caret stays vertically centred on screen rather than drifting toward the bottom. This keeps your current line at eye level throughout a long writing session.

Restoring panels

When you exit Focus Mode, every panel returns to the state it was in before you entered — the sidebar is restored, the scenes panel re-opens if it was open, and so on.

Typography dock (⌘T)

The Typography dock is a control bar that slides up from the bottom of the window. Toggle it with ⌘T.

Font

Size

Line height

Theme

Typographer

The Typographer button applies a set of typographic fixes to all scenes in the current chapter:

• Straight quotation marks → curly (smart) quotes
• -- and - in context → en dash (–) and em dash (—)
• Multiple spaces → single space
• Space before punctuation → correct spacing
• Three dots → ellipsis character (…)

The Typographer only edits the current chapter. Run it before exporting for clean final output.

Preferences are per-device

Typography settings are stored locally and apply to all your projects on this Mac. They are not saved inside the .cora file.