Amplitude Keyboard Shortcuts
Amplitude, like its closest competitor Mixpanel, is built primarily around visual report-building interfaces — dragging events into a funnel, configuring cohort filters — that don't lend themselves to a dense keyboard shortcut layer the way a text editor or spreadsheet does, so its shortcut set stays comparatively narrow and focused on the genuinely repetitive parts of the workflow: searching for events and properties, and navigating between saved charts and dashboards. Analysts building several reports in a session lean most heavily on the search-based shortcuts, since typing an event name is reliably faster than scrolling a long dropdown once an implementation has accumulated dozens or hundreds of tracked event types. The search shortcut (press / to jump straight into the event/property search box) is the one binding worth memorizing first, since it replaces what would otherwise be several scrolls through a long dropdown. Growth and product teams tend to standardize on Amplitude specifically for its retention-analysis and cohort-building strengths, and the analysts running those daily retention curves and behavioral cohorts repeatedly are the ones who benefit most from shaving repeated seconds off searching and filtering, even in a tool whose primary interaction model remains fundamentally visual and drag-driven rather than keyboard-centric.
Search Filter
| Action | Windows | Mac | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search events/properties | / | / | Jumps the cursor straight into the event-picker search box inside the chart builder, so typing a few letters narrows a tracking plan that might list hundreds of events down to the handful you actually need. |
| Add a segment filter | F (chart builder focused) | F | Opens the segmentation/filter-adding interface for the currently active chart, narrowing results by a specific user or event property condition. |
| Open date range picker | D | D | Pops open the date picker attached to the chart you're currently viewing, letting you drag the analysis window to a new range without leaving the chart-building screen. |
| Clear all chart configuration | Shift+C | Shift+C | Resets the current chart builder back to a blank starting state, removing all configured events, filters, and breakdowns at once. |
| Save current filter set as a cohort | Ctrl+Shift+S | Cmd+Shift+S | Saves the currently applied combination of user or event property filters as a named, reusable cohort definition, letting the same audience be reapplied across other charts without redefining it each time. |
Chart Navigation
| Action | Windows | Mac | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go to next saved chart | Ctrl+Alt+Right | Cmd+Option+Right | Moves to the next chart within the current dashboard or saved chart list, useful for reviewing a series of related analyses in sequence. |
| Go to previous saved chart | Ctrl+Alt+Left | Cmd+Option+Left | Moves to the previous chart, the reverse companion to next-chart navigation. |
| Save current chart | Ctrl+S | Cmd+S | Locks in the chart exactly as configured — its events, filters, breakdowns, and date range — as a named asset that can later be dropped onto a dashboard or reopened without rebuilding it from scratch. |
| Open share/export panel | Ctrl+Shift+E | Cmd+Shift+E | Opens sharing and export options for the current chart, including a shareable link, CSV export, or adding it to a dashboard. |
Editing
| Action | Windows | Mac | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add a breakdown property | B | B | Opens the property picker used to split a chart's single result line into several, one per value of the chosen property — turning an overall retention curve into separate curves for each acquisition source, for instance. |
| Cycle chart visualization type | V | V | Cycles between available visualization types (line, bar, area) for the current chart's underlying data. |
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Amplitude's shortcut set compare to Mixpanel's, given they're direct competitors?
The two platforms converge on a broadly similar philosophy — a compact set of search and filter-focused shortcuts layered on top of a primarily drag-and-drop, dropdown-driven report builder — since both face the same underlying UI challenge of a visual, non-text-entry-centric workflow that doesn't naturally lend itself to a dense keyboard shortcut scheme. The specific key bindings differ in small ways between the two products, but the overall shortcut philosophy and coverage is quite similar.
Does Clear All Chart Configuration also reset which dashboard I'm viewing?
No — Shift+C resets only the currently open chart builder's own configuration (events, filters, breakdowns, date range) back to a blank state; it doesn't navigate away from or affect the dashboard or saved-chart list you're currently browsing, and it doesn't delete a chart that's already been saved unless you separately choose to save over it with the now-cleared configuration.
Why does search sometimes return event names that seem outdated or unused?
Amplitude's event search reflects everything that's ever been tracked in the project's event taxonomy, including events from deprecated app versions or old tracking implementations that a team may have since replaced or renamed — a mature analytics implementation with years of history can accumulate many stale event names in search results, which is why many teams periodically maintain and prune their event taxonomy through Amplitude's governance/data dictionary tools rather than relying purely on search filtering alone.
What's the practical benefit of saving a cohort instead of just reapplying the same filters manually each time?
A saved cohort behaves like a named, reusable audience definition that any chart can reference going forward, which matters most when the same non-trivial user segment — say, users who completed onboarding but haven't upgraded within 30 days — needs to be analyzed across many different charts and retention curves, since redefining that multi-condition filter by hand every time would be both slow and prone to small inconsistencies between charts.
Can a saved chart be shared with someone who doesn't have an Amplitude account?
The share/export panel typically offers a shareable link option that may allow limited external viewing depending on your organization's Amplitude plan and sharing settings, alongside CSV export for the underlying data, though full interactive access to modify or drill into the chart generally still requires an Amplitude account with appropriate project access.
Does Amplitude support keyboard shortcuts for switching between entire projects, not just charts within one project?
Project switching is generally handled through a project selector dropdown in the main navigation rather than a dedicated keyboard shortcut, since most analysts spend an extended session working within a single project's event taxonomy rather than frequently jumping between entirely separate projects mid-session.
Is there a way to duplicate an existing chart as a starting point for a similar analysis?
Yes — most chart views offer a duplicate option through a menu or right-click context action, copying the full existing configuration (events, filters, breakdowns) into a new chart that can then be independently adjusted, which is typically faster than rebuilding a similar analysis from a blank chart when only a small variation is needed.
Can I export a chart's underlying data directly with a keyboard shortcut?
No — exporting a chart to CSV is a button-driven action found in the chart's own options menu, since export settings (which columns, what date range, whether to include raw event-level data or just aggregated results) require more configuration than a single keystroke could reasonably capture.