Every key combination Droppy answers to lives on one page of Settings. Nothing is bound out of the box except what you record, so Droppy never takes a combination you were already using.
Record a shortcut by clicking its Record shortcut pill and pressing the keys. Droppy tells you immediately if the combination is already taken, by another Droppy shortcut or by a system one, so two things never fire on one press. Load defaults fills the page with a sensible set in one click.
What you can bind
Expanded notchOpen the notch on whichever screen the cursor is on, and jump straight into a specific widget.
WidgetsOne shortcut per widget, opening it in the notch from anywhere.
Floating file trayReveal the floating file tray while dragging, and open the Tray Switcher to move between floating trays.
ClipboardOpen history from anywhere, copy + favorite, and item shortcuts that act on the selected entries while the window is open.
NotchReveal the notch, and hold-to-reveal using modifiers only: ⌘ ⌃ ⌥ ⇧ in any combination.
ThunderstormOpen the launcher from anywhere: ⌥ Space once you turn it on, or any combination or mouse button you record on its Open panel row. Anything it lists can have a hotkey of its own too, including a modifier tapped twice, such as the right ⌘.
Hyper keyTurn one key into a modifier of its own, for shortcuts no other app has claimed: Caps Lock, or the right Control, Shift, Option or Command. A quick press on its own can do nothing, keep the key's usual job, press Escape or open Thunderstorm. It is off until you turn it on.
Action RingTap to open then tap again to close, or hold, move to a button and let go to select.
CaptureEvery Element Capture mode, a floating toolbar for mode, timer and exact size, editor keys that work only inside the editor, and show or hide pinned screenshots.
Window SnapHalves, thirds, corners, maximize, center, and moving a window between displays.
Text CaptureSelect a screen area for on-device text recognition from anywhere.
Voice TranscribeStart a recording, or dictate into any text field.
Emoji PickerOpen the picker while keeping your current app focused, or search emoji without typing a trigger.
MeetingsMute, camera, share and end call, recorded per meeting app.
Keyboard brightnessStep the keyboard backlight up or down from any app, press or hold.
Two things worth knowing
Meetings take one combination only. Meeting shortcuts work from any app while that meeting is live. If the meeting app already has the same combination as its own system-wide shortcut, keep only one of them, or each press runs the action twice.
Replacing Spotlight. Thunderstorm opens on ⌥ Space, so Spotlight keeps ⌘ Space. To give Thunderstorm that combination instead, open System Settings, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Spotlight and turn off Show Spotlight Search, then record ⌘ Space on its Open panel row.
Inside Thunderstorm
Keys that work while the launcher is open. ⌘ K lists everything else a row can do, each action with its own shortcut. More in the Thunderstorm guide.
ReturnOpen the highlighted row.
⌘ ReturnThe row's second action, shown in its menu: copy a clipboard item, show a file in Finder, or keep calculating.
⌘ KThe row's actions, with a search field. A right-click opens the same menu.
⌘ 1 to 0Open one of the first ten rows. Hold ⌘ to see the numbers.
⌃ N ⌃ PMove down and up, like the arrow keys.
→ ←Open a folder or preview a web result, and come back out.
EscClear what you typed, then go back a screen, then close.
⌘ EscBack to the main search from any screen.
DeleteOn an empty field, go back a screen.
TabOn an empty search, move on to AI Chat and Clipboard History; ⇧ Tab goes back. After a keyword, fill in that entry's fields; after other text, with AI on, ask AI about it.
SpaceOn an empty search, open Search Files. After an alias, fill in that entry's fields.
⌘ YQuick Look the highlighted file. In AI Chat, open the chat history.
⌘ JAsk AI about the highlighted file, clipboard item or text.
⌘ DIn AI Chat, move the chat to its own window.
⌥ ⌘ TTranslate a clipboard item, recognized text or a transcript.
⇧ ⌘ FAdd the row to Favorites, or take it out.
⌥ ⌘ ↑ ↓Move a favorite up or down.
⇧ ⌘ HHide the row from search.
⌘ PChange the filter in Clipboard History and Search Files, or the model in AI Chat.
⌥ ReturnPaste and keep the launcher open, in Clipboard History and the emoji grid.
⇧ ⌘ ReturnPaste a clipboard item as plain text, or copy a calculation's expression.
⌘ .Pin or unpin a clipboard item, quicklink, snippet or chat.
⌃ XDelete what the row holds, such as a clipboard item, a calculation or a chat, or move a file to the Trash.
⌘ WClose the launcher.
⌘ ,Open Thunderstorm's settings inside the launcher.
AI quick action preview
ReturnPut the result in place of the selected text.
⌘ CCopy the result, or the part of it you selected.
⌘ RRun the action again.
⌘ DShow or hide what changed.
⌘ .Stop an action while it works.
Esc ⌘ WClose the preview.
Translator
ReturnCopy the translation.
⌘ ReturnPaste the translation into the app behind the launcher.
⌘ SSwap the languages.
⌘ LChoose the language to translate into.
⇧ ⌘ LChoose the language to translate from.