The sequence vew and the keyboard view are independent from each other.
In order to record the what you hear in the keyboard view you have to actually press “record” and record your chord progression. Otherwise you must find/set the desired chord for each step.
That’s not a boomer because it’s pretty fast:
Enable the Chord menu by tapping the Step Chord button once (it should be blinking)
Enter any chord in the grid
Long press that step and the chord menu should popup for that step
Edit: And while I’m here does anyone know how to clear a project? There’s no option in the load screen, I can only clear patterns - the manual mentions it brielfy but not clearly enough for me to be able to find it.
Edit 2: Ah, clearing a project is under the ‘Save’ menu, this was fairly unintuitive for me as I had nothing to save? Feels more like you’re ‘loading’ an empty project @OxiInstruments - which seems to be the convention for Patterns - just my 2 cents