Keyboard navigation
Serial now supports full keyboard navigation in views and articles, enabling nearly full app keyboard navigation.
March 29, 2026
Features
Keyboard navigation within views
- Use arrow keys to navigate through items in any view
- In list views, ↑ and ↓ move through items sequentially
- In grid views, all four arrow keys work navigating between rows and columns
- Press 1-9 or 0 (for the 10th view) to change between active views
- Added new shortcuts for toggling between visibility filters:
- u for unread
- i for read
- l for later
- Press s to send the selected item to Instapaper
Keyboard shortcuts for items within views
- Mark items as read/unread with e or Space
- Add items to “read later” with w
- Open items in your preferred open location with Enter
- Open the original URL in a new tab with o (in views and when viewing an item)
- Updated the “mark all visible as read” shortcut to f
Previewing shortcuts
- Hold Alt to temporarily reveal all keyboard shortcut labels
Keyboard navigation in articles
- ↑ / ↓ to navigate up and down through articles
- Space to show an image fullscreen and to play selected videos
- Tab to cycle through links within the selected block, and Enter to open a link in a new tab
Configurable article appearance settings
- Configurable font size (12–24px) via +/- controls in the Articles tab
- Can now choose
seriforsans-seriffor article font
Other changes
- Opening an item now marks it as read. Because of this, recently read items will still be shown in a view until you leave that view
- Grid item heights are now more consistent within a given row
- “Send to Instapaper” is now hidden for feeds that open externally
- Filter chips no longer show focus styles (as they are triggered through shortcuts)
- Improved hour display in the date header to omit leading zero
- Fixed an issue where shortcuts would fire when typing in form elements
- Fixed an issue where custom colors would not apply