Keyboard shortcuts

Press ⌘⇧/ (that's ⌘?) in the app for the complete list. It's generated from the same table the key handler reads, so it can't fall out of step with what the keys actually do.

This page covers the same ground for reading away from the app. Where the two disagree, believe the app: shortcuts are remappable, and a new one can land in a release before this page catches up.

Worth memorising first

Keys	What it does
⌘K	Command palette. Everything is in here
⌘N	New note, asking for the title and optionally a folder
⌘⇧F	Search note contents
⌘E	Cycle edit / split / preview
⌘,	Settings, including remapping any of these
⌘⇧/	This list, in the app

Notes

Keys	What it does
⌘N	New note
⌘⇧D	New folder
⌘S	Save now
⌘O	Open a file in its own window
⌘⇧O	Open a folder as a vault
⌘⇧P	Pin or unpin the note
⌘⌫	Move the note to the Trash
⌘⇧R	Rename the note's file
⌘⇧M	Move the note to a folder
⌘R	Reveal in Finder
⌘⇧C	Copy the file path
⌘W	Close the note
	Duplicate the note (no chord: see below)
	Browse the note's versions (no chord)

View

Keys	What it does
⌘E	Cycle edit / split / preview
⌘⇧E	Toggle rich markdown in the editor
⌃1	Sidebar + list + editor
⌃2	List + editor
⌃3	Editor only
⌘\	Cycle layout
⌘⇧T	Toggle light / dark
	Edit / split / preview view directly (no chord: ⌘E cycles, and :e :sp :view set)

Navigation

Keys	What it does
⌘K or ⌘P	Command palette
⌘⇧F	Search note contents
⌘1	Focus the sidebar
⌘2	Focus the note list
⌘3	Focus the editor
⌃h	Focus the pane to the left
⌃l	Focus the pane to the right

App

Keys	What it does
⌘⇧N	New window
⌘⇧W	Close the window
⌘,	Settings
⌘⇧/ or ⌘⇧?	Keyboard shortcuts
	Check for updates (no chord)
	Install the command line tool (no chord)

Editing

These belong to the editor rather than to the app, so they only fire with the editor focused and they can't be remapped in Settings.

Keys	What it does
⌘B	Bold
⌘I	Italic
⌘⇧K	Insert link

In the editor

Keys	What it does
[[	Link to a note, completing on its title
gf	Follow the link under the cursor
⌘-click	Follow a link. A plain click still places the cursor
j k	Move by visual line, so wrapped prose behaves

In preview

Keys	Scrolls
j k	A line
⌃d ⌃u	Half a screen
⌃f ⌃b	A screen

In the note list

Key	What it does
j k	Down, up
gg G	First, last
dd	Move to the Trash
p	Pin or unpin
n	New note
/	Jump to the search box
↵ l	Open the note and focus the editor
o	Open it and start in insert mode
Esc	Clear the selection, then the search

In the editor

<Space> is the vim leader. The full leader table and every ex command are on the Vim page.

<Space>f  palette      <Space>e  edit view      <Space>o  open file
<Space>/  search       <Space>v  split view     <Space>t  toggle theme
<Space>n  new note     <Space>p  preview view   <Space>m  pin / unpin
<Space>N  new folder   <Space>1 2 3  layouts    <Space>b  backlinks
<Space>s  save         <Space>z  cycle layout   <Space>*  bold
<Space>d  trash                                 <Space>i  italic
                                                <Space>k  insert link

Two shortcuts that don't exist, and why

Duplicate has no chord. The obvious one is ⌘D, and the editor already uses that to add a cursor at the next occurrence of your selection. Duplicate lives in the menu, the palette and the right-click menu instead.

Browse Versions has no chord. It only applies to a note in a synced vault, which is too narrow to earn a global chord. It's in the File menu and the palette.

Note

⌃h stops working while you're in vim's insert mode, where it has to stay backspace. ⌘1 to ⌘3 reach the panes with no such exception.

Remapping

Settings → Keybindings, ⌘,. The recorder captures a real key event, so what you press is what gets bound, and it refuses to shadow a command that already owns that chord.

Vim's own bindings and the note list's j/k keys aren't in that list: they belong to the editor and the list rather than to the global handler. See Settings.