Keyboard shortcuts
Every key the app answers to, grouped by what you are doing. The shortcuts are the defaults, and most of them can be changed in Settings ▸ Keyboard.
- All menu shortcuts
- Help ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts lists them, and the search field filters them
- Change one
- Settings ▸ Keyboard, where a supertag can also get a shortcut
- Find a command
- ⌘K, which also lists the Insert commands by name
- Ordinary typing
- Space types a space in a note. It acts as a key only in lists, tables, the calendar, cards, the sidebar, and on a selected attachment row.
Writing and splitting notes
- Return
- New note below, when the caret is at the end of a noteAnywhere else in the text it splits the note at the caret. At the very start of a note with text, it adds a blank note above.
- ⇧Return
- New line inside the same note
- Tab
- Indent the note under the note aboveIn a code block it types two spaces.
- ⇧Tab
- Outdent the note one levelIn a code block it removes a tab or up to two spaces.
- Backspace
- At the start, join the note to the note aboveA note with tags, fields, references or links goes to Trash instead.
- ⌘N
- Open a draft row after the current noteNothing is written until you type. Esc removes an untouched draft.
- ⌘D
- Duplicate the note and its children as plain notesTags and fields are not copied.
- ⌘Return
- Add a checkbox, or check and uncheck itWorks in a note, a code block and the Table and Cards views.
Selecting and moving notes
- Esc
- Select the note you are editing, as a wholePress Esc again to clear the selection.
- ⇧↓
- Extend the selection down
- ⇧↑
- Extend the selection up
- ↑↓
- Move between the selected notes
- Return
- Edit the selected note again
- Backspace
- Move the selected notes to Trash, as one step
- ⌘C
- Copy the selected notes as indented text
- ⌘X
- Copy the selected notes, then move them to Trash
- ⌘V
- Paste the clipboard's lines as notes after the selection
- ⇧⌘↑
- Move the note up, across parents
- ⇧⌘↓
- Move the note down, across parents
- ⇧⌘M
- Move Note…, to another page
- ⌘↓
- Expand the note being edited or selected
- ⌘↑
- Collapse it
- ⌥⌘↓
- Expand everything inside it
- ⌥⌘↑
- Collapse everything inside it
- ⌥⌘]
- Indent NoteWorks in a code note, where Tab types a tab.
- ⌥⌘[
- Outdent Note
With the mouse, Shift-click extends a selection from its anchor and ⌘-click adds or removes one note. See Select and move notes.
Formatting and structure
- ⌘B
- Bold
- ⌘I
- Italic
- ⇧⌘C
- Inline code
- ⇧⌘X
- Strikethrough
- ⇧⌘H
- Highlight, with the default highlight
- ⌘L
- Link, for the selection or the word at the caret
- ⌥⌘1
- Heading 1
- ⌥⌘2
- Heading 2
- ⌥⌘3
- Heading 3
- ⌥⌘4
- Heading 4
- ⌥⌘C
- Code block, or back to a plain note
- ⌥⇧⌘V
- Paste as One NoteLine breaks stay inside the one note.
Tables and code blocks
- Tab
- In a table, the next cell; in the last cell, a new rowIn a code block, two spaces.
- ⇧Tab
- In a table, the previous cell
- Return
- In a table, the cell below; in the last body row, a new row
- ⇧Return
- In a table cell, a new line inside the cell
- Esc
- End the edit in a table cell
- ⌥⇧⌘↑
- Move the row up
- ⌥⇧⌘↓
- Move the row down
- ⌥⇧⌘←
- Move the column left
- ⌥⇧⌘→
- Move the column right
- Return
- In a code block, a new lineOn an empty last line it ends the block and starts a note below.
- Backspace
- At the start of a code block, turns it back into a plain note
In a table cell, ⌘B, ⌘I and ⇧⌘C style the selected text. See Tables inside a note and Code blocks.
Lists that open while you type
- /
- Open the Insert command list\ and two backticks also open it, when they are turned on in Settings ▸ Editor.
- @[[
- Open the note list, and link a note
- #
- Open the supertag list, and apply a supertag
- >
- Open the field list, and add a field
- ?
- Make or choose a saved search
- ↑↓
- Move the highlight in an open list
- ReturnorTab
- Choose the highlighted row
- Esc
- Close the list and keep what you typed
- Space
- With no matches, close the list and type the space
Pages, panes and windows
- ⌘[
- Back to the page you had open
- ⌘]
- Forward
- ⌥⌘I
- Show or hide the inspector
- ⌃⌘S
- Show or hide the sidebar
- ⌘+
- Bigger text
- ⌘=
- Bigger text, a second key for the same commandThis key has no menu entry.
- ⌘-
- Smaller text
- ⌘0
- Actual text size
- ⌥⌘N
- New window on the same workspace
- ⌘T
- New tab
- ⌘W
- Close the window
- ⌥⌘V
- Paste as ReferenceWorks on notes copied with a selection in this workspace.
Table, Calendar, Cards and Lanes views
- ←→↑↓
- Move the cell, the day or the cardWorks in the Table, Calendar and Cards views.
- Return
- Edit the cell, open the note, or open the card
- Space
- Toggle a checkbox cell, the note's Done state in the Calendar, or the card's checkbox
- ⌘A
- Table: select every row
- ⌘⌫
- Table: move the selected rows to Trash
- ⌘Return
- Table and Cards: toggle the checkboxes of the selected notes
- ⌥→
- Table: open the notes inside the selected row
- ⌥←
- Table: close them
- Tab
- Calendar: the next note of the focused day
- ⇧Tab
- Calendar: the previous note of the focused day
- ⌥←⌥→
- Calendar: move the note one day earlier or later
- ⌥↑⌥↓
- Calendar: move the note a week earlier or later
- ⌃⌥←⌃⌥→
- Lanes: move between lanes
Calendar is in the View menu as Show as Calendar. Lanes and Side menu are not in any menu: choose them from View options ▸ View as, or from a view tab's Show as submenu, on an ordinary page or the Inbox. See Choosing a view.
Today, the Journal and Quick Capture
- ⇧⌘D
- Go to today
- ⌥⌘←
- Previous day, on a day page
- ⌥⌘→
- Next day, on a day page
- ⇧⌘J
- Quick CaptureReturn adds one note per line, ⌥Return starts a new line, and Esc closes it and adds nothing.
While a workspace window is open, a menu-bar item and a system-wide shortcut open Quick Capture. Both are off until turned on in Settings ▸ General.
The ⌘K palette
- ⌘K
- Find or open a note, a supertag or a command
- ↑↓
- Move between results
- Return
- Open the result
- ⌘Return
- Open the result beside the page you are reading
- ⌥↓
- Open the Within note menu
- Esc
- Close the palette
The sidebar, fields and Settings
- Tab
- Move into the sidebar, or out of it again
- ↑↓
- Move between sidebar rows
- HomeEnd
- Go to the first or last sidebar row
- A–Z
- Go to the row whose name starts with the letters typed, within a second of each letter
- ReturnorSpace
- Open the row, or toggle a section
- ←→
- Collapse or expand a sidebar section
- ⇧⌘T
- Tags and Fields for the selected note
- Tab⇧Tab
- Next or previous field value, in an open value editor
- Return
- Save a field value
- Esc
- Discard the change to a field value
- ⌥⌘↑⌥⌘↓
- Reorder the focused option in Field Settings
- ⌘or
- Settings
- ⌘S
- Save Now, which flushes pending text and shows the status
- ⌘O
- Open Workspace…
- ⇧⌘N
- New Workspace…
Find, undo and the app
- ⌘Z
- Undo, with the step's name in the Edit menu
- ⇧⌘Z
- Redo
- ⌘⌫
- Move the selected note to TrashIt never deletes for good.
- ⌘F
- Find in Page, or focus the search field of the Supertags browser
- ⌘M
- Minimize
- ⌃⌘F
- Enter Full Screen
- ⌘H
- Hide Superliner
- ⌥⌘H
- Hide Others
- ⌘Q
- Quit Superliner
Change a shortcut
Settings ▸ Keyboard lists the commands and their shortcuts. Choose one, press the new keys, and the menus and the Help window follow. If another command already uses the keys, Superliner names that command and offers to move the shortcut to the new one. Keys that type a character, such as a plain letter, cannot be assigned to a command.
A supertag can have its own shortcut, set on its page under Shortcut. Note ▸ Apply Supertag lists those shortcuts. See Supertags.