Crawl Cove rewards a few habits that aren't obvious from the buttons alone. Once you're running audits across ten or twenty clients, these shortcuts and table behaviours are the difference between clicking through menus and flying.
The app is dark-theme only — there's no light mode. The design is tuned for dense, professional dashboards, and everything below assumes that high-contrast, data-heavy layout.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Ctrl+K / Cmd+K |
Open the Client Switcher — search by name or domain; Enter picks the first result. |
Ctrl+L / Cmd+L |
Open the Site Switcher for a multi-website client. |
Enter |
In the Client Switcher, jump to the first match. |
Esc |
Close any modal, drawer, or date picker. |
Enter / Space |
Activate a sortable column header when it's focused. |
Ctrl / Cmd + click a URL |
Open it in your system browser instead of selecting the text. |
Tip
At 10+ clients, Ctrl+K becomes the most-used control in the app. Type a few
letters of the name or the domain, hit Enter, and you're in the workspace —
no scrolling the portfolio table.
Tables
Every data table in Crawl Cove behaves the same way, so the habits transfer across Findings, Pages, Keywords, and the rest.
- Sortable columns — click a header to cycle ascending ↑ / descending ↓ /
none ↕. Hover roughly two seconds over a header for a tooltip explaining the
column. Column headers are keyboard-reachable: focus one and press
EnterorSpaceto sort. - Multi-select filters — the Findings filters for severity, status, and category show live counts, and changing any filter resets the table to page 1.
- Pagination — a "Showing A–B of N / Page X of Y" pager appears only when there's more than one page, so short result sets stay clean.
Drag-and-drop on the Tasks board
The client Tasks Kanban board is fully drag-driven:
- Drag a card between columns to change its status, moving it along the flow Backlog → In Progress → Awaiting Verification → Needs Rework → Verified Fixed.
- Drag a card within a column to manually reorder priority. The order persists, so your sense of "do this next" survives a refresh.
See Tasks and the verification loop for how the Awaiting Verification column resolves itself.
Bulk & power moves
These shortcuts collapse repetitive work into a single action:
- Bulk keyword entry — paste many keywords at once (newline- or comma-separated), with an optional shared target URL. Duplicates are auto-removed (case-insensitive).
- Bulk check toggle — enable or disable many checks at once in the Check Registry, without losing your per-client severity overrides. See Tuning checks with the Check Registry.
- Verify a single finding or task on demand — re-fetches that one URL live and re-runs its deterministic check, moving the item to fixed or needs-rework immediately. No waiting for the next full crawl.
- Field tooltips — hover the ⓘ next to most form labels for inline help. "Need a key?" links open the right signup page in your browser.
Feedback you'll see
Crawl Cove never leaves you guessing whether an action worked:
- Toasts (auto-dismiss after roughly four seconds) confirm actions like "keywords tracked" or "CSV exported," and surface errors when they happen.
- Retry buttons appear on any panel whose data failed to load — a failed query never silently shows an empty state. If a chart is blank, the app tells you why and gives you a way to try again.
Note
Because everything runs locally on your machine, these interactions are instant — there's no round-trip to a vendor backend between you and your data.