diff --git a/client/src/components/Journey/JourneyDetailPageEntryEditor.tsx b/client/src/components/Journey/JourneyDetailPageEntryEditor.tsx
index 760d8cc03..22acd11f6 100644
--- a/client/src/components/Journey/JourneyDetailPageEntryEditor.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/Journey/JourneyDetailPageEntryEditor.tsx
@@ -465,8 +465,10 @@ export function EntryEditor({ entry, journeyId, tripDates, galleryPhotos, trips,
 
             <div className="flex min-h-[220px] flex-1 flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-[10px] border border-edge bg-surface-input focus-within:ring-2 focus-within:ring-[color:var(--text-primary)]">
               <MarkdownToolbar textareaRef={storyRef} onUpdate={setStory} />
+              {/* Written like a long text: Ctrl/Cmd+Enter stays with the story instead of saving the entry. */}
               <textarea
                 ref={storyRef}
+                data-keeps-ctrl-enter
                 value={story}
                 onChange={e => setStory(e.target.value)}
                 placeholder={t('journey.editor.writeStory')}
diff --git a/client/src/components/shared/DialogShell.test.tsx b/client/src/components/shared/DialogShell.test.tsx
index dafd14b32..6dae0105a 100644
--- a/client/src/components/shared/DialogShell.test.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/shared/DialogShell.test.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-// FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-001 to FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-013
+// FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-001 to FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-020
 import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
 import { useState } from 'react';
-import { render, screen, fireEvent } from '../../../tests/helpers/render';
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, waitFor } from '../../../tests/helpers/render';
 import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
 import { resetBodyScrollLock } from '../../utils/bodyScrollLock';
 import {
@@ -223,3 +223,127 @@ describe('body and footer parts', () => {
     expect(NEUTRAL_TINT).toContain('var(--accent)');
   });
 });
+
+// #1303: Ctrl/Cmd+Enter saves a dialog from the keyboard.
+describe('DialogShell Ctrl/Cmd+Enter', () => {
+  /** Lets the deferred press run, so an assertion that nothing was pressed means it. */
+  const settle = () => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 0));
+
+  /** A note field that takes its value on blur, like a typed time, and a save that reads it. */
+  function Editor({ onSave, onTitleKey, primaries = 1, saveDisabled = false, blocked = false, keepsCtrlEnter = false }: {
+    onSave: (note: string) => void;
+    onTitleKey?: () => void;
+    primaries?: number;
+    saveDisabled?: boolean;
+    blocked?: boolean;
+    keepsCtrlEnter?: boolean;
+  }) {
+    const [note, setNote] = useState('');
+    const [draft, setDraft] = useState('');
+    const [title, setTitle] = useState('');
+    return (
+      <DialogShell onClose={onClose} labelledBy="e-title" blocked={blocked}
+        header={<DialogHeader tile={null} tint={NEUTRAL_TINT} labelId="e-title" onClose={onClose}
+          titleInput={{ value: title, onChange: setTitle, label: 'Title', onKeyDown: e => { if (e.key === 'Enter') onTitleKey?.(); } }} />}
+        footer={
+          <DialogFooter>
+            <DialogButton onClick={onClose}>Cancel</DialogButton>
+            {Array.from({ length: primaries }, (_, i) => (
+              <DialogButton key={i} variant="primary" disabled={saveDisabled} onClick={() => onSave(note)}>Save {i}</DialogButton>
+            ))}
+          </DialogFooter>
+        }>
+        <textarea aria-label="Note" value={draft} onChange={e => setDraft(e.target.value)} onBlur={() => setNote(draft)}
+          data-keeps-ctrl-enter={keepsCtrlEnter || undefined} />
+      </DialogShell>
+    );
+  }
+
+  it('FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-014: the primary button is marked, the others are not', () => {
+    render(
+      <DialogFooter>
+        <DialogButton>Cancel</DialogButton>
+        <DialogButton variant="primary">Save</DialogButton>
+      </DialogFooter>,
+    );
+    expect(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Save' })).toHaveAttribute('data-dialog-primary');
+    expect(screen.getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel' })).not.toHaveAttribute('data-dialog-primary');
+  });
+
+  it('FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-015: Ctrl+Enter in a field saves once, with the value the field commits on blur', async () => {
+    const onSave = vi.fn();
+    render(<Editor onSave={onSave} />);
+    await userEvent.type(screen.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Note' }), 'Bring the passports');
+    await userEvent.keyboard('{Control>}{Enter}{/Control}');
+
+    await waitFor(() => expect(onSave).toHaveBeenCalledWith('Bring the passports'));
+    await settle();
+    expect(onSave).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    // Spent on the save: the textarea did not get a line break.
+    expect(screen.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Note' })).toHaveValue('Bring the passports');
+  });
+
+  it('FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-016: Cmd+Enter does the same, Enter alone and with Shift or Alt do not', async () => {
+    const onSave = vi.fn();
+    render(<Editor onSave={onSave} />);
+    const note = screen.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Note' });
+    await userEvent.click(note);
+    await userEvent.keyboard('{Enter}{Shift>}{Control>}{Enter}{/Control}{/Shift}{Alt>}{Control>}{Enter}{/Control}{/Alt}');
+    await settle();
+    expect(onSave).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+    await userEvent.click(note);
+    await userEvent.keyboard('{Meta>}{Enter}{/Meta}');
+    await waitFor(() => expect(onSave).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1));
+  });
+
+  it('FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-017: a title that saves on Enter does not save a second time', async () => {
+    const onSave = vi.fn();
+    const onTitleKey = vi.fn();
+    render(<Editor onSave={onSave} onTitleKey={onTitleKey} />);
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Title' }));
+    await userEvent.keyboard('{Control>}{Enter}{/Control}');
+
+    await waitFor(() => expect(onSave).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1));
+    expect(onTitleKey).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-018: a disabled primary saves nothing, and the field does not save in its place', async () => {
+    const onSave = vi.fn();
+    const onTitleKey = vi.fn();
+    render(<Editor onSave={onSave} onTitleKey={onTitleKey} saveDisabled />);
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Title' }));
+    await userEvent.keyboard('{Control>}{Enter}{/Control}');
+    await settle();
+
+    expect(onSave).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(onTitleKey).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-019: with no primary or two of them, the keys stay with the field', async () => {
+    const onSave = vi.fn();
+    const onTitleKey = vi.fn();
+    const { rerender } = render(<Editor onSave={onSave} onTitleKey={onTitleKey} primaries={0} />);
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Title' }));
+    await userEvent.keyboard('{Control>}{Enter}{/Control}');
+    rerender(<Editor onSave={onSave} onTitleKey={onTitleKey} primaries={2} />);
+    await userEvent.keyboard('{Control>}{Enter}{/Control}');
+    await settle();
+
+    expect(onSave).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(onTitleKey).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+  });
+
+  it('FE-COMP-DIALOGSHELL-020: a field that keeps Ctrl+Enter, or a question open over the dialog, saves nothing', async () => {
+    const onSave = vi.fn();
+    const { rerender } = render(<Editor onSave={onSave} keepsCtrlEnter />);
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Note' }));
+    await userEvent.keyboard('{Control>}{Enter}{/Control}');
+    rerender(<Editor onSave={onSave} blocked />);
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Note' }));
+    await userEvent.keyboard('{Control>}{Enter}{/Control}');
+    await settle();
+
+    expect(onSave).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/client/src/components/shared/DialogShell.tsx b/client/src/components/shared/DialogShell.tsx
index f03f5022e..f2971f941 100644
--- a/client/src/components/shared/DialogShell.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/shared/DialogShell.tsx
@@ -50,6 +50,32 @@ export interface DialogShellProps {
   discardGuard?: unknown
 }
 
+/**
+ * Ctrl/Cmd+Enter finishes the dialog from any field (#1303), so a form filled in
+ * with the keyboard can be saved without reaching for the mouse. It presses the
+ * footer's one primary button the way a hand would: the focus moves onto it
+ * first, so a field that takes its value on blur (a typed time) has it, and the
+ * press follows once that has rendered. It saves exactly what the button saves
+ * and nothing while the button is disabled. A footer with no primary, or two to
+ * choose between, leaves the keys to the field, and so does a field marked
+ * `data-keeps-ctrl-enter` (the journal's story, written like a long text).
+ */
+function pressPrimaryOnCtrlEnter(e: ReactKeyboardEvent<HTMLDivElement>, panel: HTMLDivElement) {
+  if (e.key !== 'Enter' || !(e.ctrlKey || e.metaKey) || e.altKey || e.shiftKey || e.repeat || e.nativeEvent.isComposing) return
+  // A dialog opened from this one sits in its own portal: its keys are its own.
+  const target = e.target
+  if (!(target instanceof Element) || !panel.contains(target) || target.closest('[data-keeps-ctrl-enter]')) return
+  const primaries = panel.querySelectorAll<HTMLButtonElement>(':scope > footer [data-dialog-primary]')
+  if (primaries.length !== 1) return
+  const primary = primaries[0]
+  // Spent here, so a field's own Enter (a title that saves on Enter) does not save a second time.
+  e.preventDefault()
+  e.stopPropagation()
+  if (primary.disabled) return
+  primary.focus()
+  setTimeout(() => { if (primary.isConnected && !primary.disabled) primary.click() })
+}
+
 const DISCARD_BUTTON = 'inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 rounded-[10px] bg-danger px-4 py-2 font-medium text-white hover:opacity-90' // theme-lint-disable: white on the danger fill, as ConfirmDialog draws it
 
 /**
@@ -125,7 +151,10 @@ function DialogFrame({ onClose, labelledBy, width = 'detail', align = 'center',
         aria-labelledby={labelledBy}
         tabIndex={-1}
         onPaste={onPaste}
-        onKeyDownCapture={markStart}
+        onKeyDownCapture={e => {
+          markStart()
+          if (!held && panelRef.current) pressPrimaryOnCtrlEnter(e, panelRef.current)
+        }}
         onPointerDownCapture={markStart}
         onKeyDown={e => { if (panelRef.current) trapTab(e, panelRef.current) }}
         className={`trek-modal-enter relative flex max-h-full w-full ${PANEL_WIDTH[width]} flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-[22px] bg-surface-card shadow-2xl outline-none`}
@@ -303,11 +332,15 @@ export type DialogButtonProps = Omit<ButtonHTMLAttributes<HTMLButtonElement>, 'c
   icon?: ReactNode
 }
 
-/** A footer button: white on a hairline, or the accent fill for the one that finishes the dialog. */
+/**
+ * A footer button: white on a hairline, or the accent fill for the one that finishes the dialog.
+ * The primary one is marked, for the dialog's Ctrl/Cmd+Enter.
+ */
 export function DialogButton({ variant = 'secondary', active = false, icon, children, type = 'button', ...rest }: DialogButtonProps) {
-  const look = variant === 'primary' ? BUTTON_LOOK.primary : active ? BUTTON_LOOK.active : BUTTON_LOOK.secondary
+  const primary = variant === 'primary'
+  const look = primary ? BUTTON_LOOK.primary : active ? BUTTON_LOOK.active : BUTTON_LOOK.secondary
   return (
-    <button {...rest} type={type} className={look} style={fs(13, 'body')}>
+    <button {...rest} type={type} className={look} style={fs(13, 'body')} data-dialog-primary={primary ? '' : undefined}>
       {icon}{children}
     </button>
   )