Keyboard Shortcuts
Convenience Shortcuts for Matched Punctuation Marks ([{`”
You can enable these shortcuts to facilitate the insertion and removal of opening and closing punctuation marks. These shortcuts are disabled by default, but can be activated in Notebooks‘ settings. When active, this is how the shortcuts work:
- Typing an opening character inserts the corresponding closing character right after the cursor, so the text you type is automatically enclosed.
- With text selected, the selection is enclosed with the marks.
- If the selection is already enclosed with marks, typing the opening mark removes both, the opening and closing marks.
An exception is with brackets[]or curly brackets{}in plain text, which can be nested to support Wiki links and other Markdown commands. So you can type[twice to end up with[[|]], but typing[a third time removes all brackets again. - If the cursor is positioned at the beginning or in the middle of a word, the closing characters is not inserted.
- With the cursor just before the closing character,
- typing the closing character steps over it, so Notebooks does add that character twice,
- typing
returnsteps over the closing character before adding the newline, so it does not move that character to the next line. Useshift-returnto add a newline without stepping over the closing character.
Keyboard Shortcuts
This chapter is about keyboard shortcuts for Notebooks on a Mac, although many shortcuts are supported on all devices.
When using Notebooks with an external keyboard on an iPhone or iPad, hold down the command
⌘ key for a list of shortcuts that are relevant to the current context.
System-wide Shortcuts on Mac
Notebooks for Mac introduces a system service that enables you to create a Quick Note even when Notebooks isn’t running. This service is accessible from any application’s app menu under the Services category. Notebooks doesn’t automatically register a shortcut for this service, but you can assign one from macOS Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts… > Services > General > Notebooks: Quick Note .
Application-wide Shortcuts
| ⌥⌘B | Show document browser (main window) |
| ⌘N | Create a new default document |
| ⇧⌘N | Create a new book (in the currently selected book) |
| ⌥⌘1 | Show document only (hide outline and list) |
| ⌥⌘2 | Show document list and document (hide outline) |
| ⌥⌘3 | Show outline, document list and document) |
| ⌃⌘F | Toggle fullscreen mode |
| ⌘⌫ | Delete items currently selected in document list (when list has focus) |
| ⌘O | Open in default application |
| ⌘D | Duplicate currently selected items (selected in outline or list) |
| ⌥⌘I | Show Info |
| ⌥⌘F | Global search |
| ⌥⌘P | Create PDF from selected document |
| ⌃⌘V | New from Pasteboard |
| ⌘↑ | Move to enclosing book (in document list especially) |
| ⇧⌘H | Jump to “Home”, Notebooks’ top level |
| ⌥⇧⌘D | Set task’s due date |
| ⌥⇧⌘T | In a task list, toggle between showing a document as task or as a regular document |
Shortcuts for all Editable Document
| ⌘S | Save a document version (macOS only) |
| ⇧⌘T | Insert time stamp |
| ⇧⌘D | Insert current date |
| ⌘⏎ | Toggle between plain text and formatted view |
| ⇧⏎ | Insert soft return |
| ⌘+/- ⌘= | Increase / decrease font size, or reset to default |
| ⇧⌘X | Extract tasks |
| ⌃⌥↑ | Move current line up |
| ⌃⌥↓ | Move current line down |
| ⌥⌘X | Cut current line |
| ⌘⌫ | Delete back to beginning of line or element |
| ⌃⌘←/→ | Go to the previous/next document in the history list |
Shortcuts for Plain Text and Markdown
| ⌘B | Insert Markdown code for bold |
| ⌘I | Insert Markdown code for italic |
| ⌘— | Insert Markdown code for strike through |
| ⌃⇧⌘D | Show list of Date- and Timestamps |
| ⌘] or ⇥ | Indent current selection |
| ⌘[ or ⇧⇥ | Outdent current selection |
| ⌘0 … ⌘5 | Apply Markdown heading (#) to selected line |
| ⌘7 | Toggle comment (//) Commented lines can be excluded from Markdown conversion and character count |
| ↑⌥⌘H | Add/remove Markdown code to highlight current selection |
| ⌘K | Insert Markdown link. With a valid URL copied, the URL is used as link target. |
| ⌘L | Cycle through list styles: bulleted > numbered > Markdown checklist (- [ ]) > none |
| ⇧⌘L | As above, but reverse direction |
| ⌥⌘V | Paste as Markdown |
| ⌥⌘L | Toggle line numbers |
| ⌥⌘O | Toggle Overscrolling (show extra space at the bottom of the document) |
Shortcuts for Formatted Documents
| ⌘B | Make text bold |
| ⌘I | Make text italic |
| ⌘U | Make text underlined |
| ⌘1 … ⌘7 | Set paragraph style |
| ⌘0 | Set default style |
| ⌘— | Strike through |
| ↑⌥⌘H | Add/remove Highlight to/from current selection |
| ⌘K | Add or edit link to current selection |
| ⌘L | Cycle list style for current selection: bulleted > numbered > checklist > none |
| ⌥⌘↓ or ↑ | Delete or add a new table row |
| ⌥⌘→ or ← | Delete or add a new table column |
| ⌥⌘+ or – | Zoom text size in or out, without changing the document’s font size. (This is available in the formatted view of Markdown documents, too.) |
| ⌥⌘= | Reset zoom level to 100% |
Shortcuts for Opening Documents in New Tabs and Windows
| ⌥⌘⏎ | Open current document in a new tab |
| ⇧⌘⏎ | Open current document in a new window |
| ⇧⌘ while clicking a link | Open linked document in native application |
| ⌥ while selecting Open in New Tab | Open item in tab behind the current one |
| ⌥ while selecting Recent Item or Breadcrumbing menu | Open item in new tab |
| ⇧ while selecting Recent Item or Breadcrumbing menu | Open item in new window |