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In order to make the process of reviewing your articles for submission easier, Article Samurai has a number of keyboard shortcuts that allow you to interact with the spin blocks, without needing to use your mouse.

This can save you time on each article review by eliminating the need to constantly move your hand between your keyboard and mouse.

In this video we’ll take a look at how to best use the keyboard shortcuts to reduce the time it takes to review an article.

Specifically we’ll look at how to:

• Open and close a spin block
• Add a new spin variation
• Move between spin variations
• Delete a spin variation
• Move between spin blocks
• Add spin variations to a word that was not automatically spun
• Remove a spin block entirely

I should also mention that I will be demonstrating this using a Mac. If you are using a PC, instead of using the ‘command’ key you’ll use the ‘ctrl’ key, and instead of using the ‘delete’ key, you’ll use the ‘backspace’ key. If this sounds confusing, please don’t worry, there’ll be a complete list of shortcuts for each system at the end of this video.

Ok, let’s now take a look at Article Samurai.

In this example my article is ready for review. It has a:
1) Title
2) Body
3) Resource box
4) Tags
5) links
6) And has already been spun

To open a spin block move the cursor onto the spun word you’d like to review using the 'arrow' keys.

Then hold down ‘shift’ and press the ‘OPEN curly bracket’ key.

(Please note: The following shortcuts will take effect only when a spin block is open).

To move down between the spin variations, press the ‘tab’ key.

If there are only two variations in the spin block, and you’d like to add another, press the ‘tab’ key again and a new variation field will appear below.

You can then type in another variation.

If you’d like to remove a spin variation, continually press the delete key until the word is gone

And then once more to make the field disappear.

If you’d like to move back up to a previous variation, just hold down ‘shift’ while you press the ‘tab’ key and the cursor will move in reverse.

Once again you can make changes as you wish.

When you’re ready to move onto the next spin block, hold down the ‘command’ key and press the ‘CLOSE square bracket’ key. The cursor will then move to the first variation in the next spin block where you can repeat the process.

If you need to move back to the previous spin block, hold down the ‘command’ key and press the ‘OPEN square bracket’ key.

You can now repeat this process until you have finished reviewing your entire article.

When you’re finished, to close an open spin block, hold down ‘shift’ and press the ‘CLOSE curly bracket’ key.

If you want to add spin variations to a word that was not automatically spun, use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the beginning of the word that you’d like spin.

Then hold down the ‘shift’ key and continually press the ‘arrow’ key until the whole word is highlighted.

With the word highlighted you can now open a new spin block by holding down ‘shift’ and pressing the ‘OPEN curly bracket’ key just as before.

You can now add your own variations using the same method.

Finally, If you have a spin block with variations that you’d like to remove, just hit the ‘delete’ key until only one variation remains.

You can then close the spin block as we did earlier by holding down ‘shift’ and pressing the ‘CLOSE curly bracket’ key. And that’s It!

As promised, here is the list of keyboard shortcuts for both Mac and PC systems.

I hope they help you to reduce the time you spend reviewing your articles.