Keyboard shortcuts

Inside the app, ⌘/ opens a translucent sheet with the shortcuts on it; Esc, ⌘/ again, or a click outside closes it. ⌘K opens a command bar listing what applies where you are, each with its key.

Around the app

Keys	What it does
⌘1 or ⌘P	All Documents — the mosaic of the whole library. Esc goes to the Timelapse
⌘2	Timelapse — today’s note in front, earlier days receding behind it. ↑ ↓ walk the days, ↩ opens the one in front, ⇥ switches between the daily notes alone and everything written each day; Esc goes to All Documents
⌘3 or ⌘D	Today’s note, in the Daily folder, started for you if the day has none yet
⌘K	The command bar
⌘F	Search the library — titles, tags and full text
⌘S or ⌘\	Show or hide the sidebar
⌘↩ or ⌘⇧S	Review — the document rendered read-only in a chosen style. Again, or Esc, to leave. Inside it, ⇥ and ⇧⇥ walk the styles
⌘⇧↩	The page beside the editor — Review to the right of the text, redrawn as you write and following the caret. Again to put it away
Esc	Step back one level: Review → editor → where the document was opened from — All Documents, or Timelapse for a note opened from a day there — the page shrinking into its card. In All Documents, Esc clears a search, a tag or a day first, then goes to the Timelapse; in the Timelapse it goes to All Documents, so the two overviews are a key apart
↑ ↓ ← → and ↩	In All Documents: move between cards and open the selected one. ⌘↩ opens it in Review
⌘.	Float on top — the window stays over other apps’ windows and stays on screen when Stage Manager switches to another app. Again to stop
⌘,	Settings. Inside it, ⇥ and ⇧⇥ cycle the sections; ⌘F finds a setting by name; ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z undo and redo the last change to a setting; Esc clears the search, then closes
⌘/	The shortcut sheet
⌘+ ⌘− ⌘0	Text size — the editor’s, or Review’s while a page is showing
⌃⌘T	Typewriter scrolling
⌃⌘F	Focus mode
⌃⌘M	Hide Markdown syntax — the marks leave the page except in the sentence being written

⌘1, ⌘2 and ⌘3 match the three numbered rows at the top of the sidebar, in order — All Documents, Timelapse, Today — so the left hand can reach them while the right is on the mouse. New Document, the row under them, is ⌘N.

Documents

Keys	What it does
⌘N / ⌘⇧N	New document / new folder
⌘O	Open a Markdown or text file from anywhere, in place
⌘D or ⌘3	Today’s note, in the Daily folder, created on first use
⌘R	Rename
⌘⇧⌫	Shelve — out of the sidebar, Recents and All Documents, into the Shelf. Again to unshelve
⌘⌫	Move to Trash (asks first; Return confirms, Esc keeps the document)
⌥⇥ / ⌥⇧⇥ (or ⌃⇥)	Open pages fanned out: hold ⌥, Tab steps along them, ⇧Tab back, ← → ↑ ↓ too, 1–9 jump, ⌫ or the card’s × closes one, Esc leaves them; let go of ⌥, press ↩, or click a card to open. The pointer moves the highlight. A tap flips to the page before
⌘W	Close the page; the one under it comes up
⌥⌘W	Close the other pages, keeping this one
⌥⇧⌘W	Close all pages; All Documents comes up
⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z	Undo and redo — typing first, then file operations: a new document, a rename, a move, a duplicate, a shelving, a trip to the Trash
⌘⇧E	Export as PDF, in the current Review style
⌘⇧C / ⌥⌘C	Copy the whole document as Markdown / as rich text
⌘V	Paste — rich text from anywhere becomes Markdown: lists keep their bullets and numbers, headings their level, bold, italic, links and tables their shape
⌥⇧⌘V	Paste as Plain Text — the clipboard’s plain string, nothing converted
⌘⇧R	Reveal the document in Finder

Save Now, Duplicate and Reveal Library in Finder are in the File menu without keys; Duplicate is in every right-click menu too.

Writing

Keys	What it does
⌘B ⌘I	Bold, italic
⌘E	Inline code
⌘⇧X	Strikethrough
⌘⇧H	Chip — the selected words in a capsule (`==word==`)
⌘⇧K	Link — wraps the selection; uses a web address from the clipboard if there is one
⌘V over a selection	With a web address on the clipboard, links the selected words instead of replacing them
⌘⌥1 ⌘⌥2 ⌘⌥3	Heading level (the same level again turns it back into body text)
⌘⌥0	Body text
⌘⇧L	Toggle a task checkbox; makes the line a task if it is not one
⇥ / ⇧⇥	Nest or un-nest a list item — bullets, numbers and tasks
↩	In a list, the next item; on an empty item, the end of the list (or one level out, if nested)
⌘⇧F	Find in the open document; ⌘G next match, ⌘⇧G previous
`@today` `@tomorrow` `@yesterday` + space	The date, as a capsule
`/` at the start of a line	The slash menu: headings, lists, task, quote, code block, divider, link, chip, dates. ↑ ↓ to choose, ↩ or ⇥ to take, Esc to leave the slash

Help

Keys	What it does
⌘⌥⇧D	Copy Debug Info — caret geometry, layout and settings in one paste, for bug reports

With the mouse

Select text and a formatting bar appears above it.
Click a task’s box to check it; click again to reopen it. Works in Review as well.
Drag a task box, a bullet or a list number up or down to reorder the list.
Click a tag in the sidebar to filter by it; the ⓧ beside its name clears the filter.
Hover a folder in the sidebar for a + that makes a document inside it.
Right-click a document, a folder or a card for the full menu.
Click a card in All Documents or in Timelapse to open it; click a day’s name in Timelapse, or a day in the sidebar’s calendar, for everything written that day.
Scroll in Timelapse to walk back through the days.
Rest the pointer on a pip in the footer for a picture of that page.
Scroll in the editor to lift focus mode; click or type to bring it back.
Click the copy button at the bottom-right of the editor for Markdown; click and hold for rich text.

What is deliberately not there

⌘S does not save, because nothing needs saving; it hides the sidebar. ⌘X is Cut, as everywhere on the Mac. ⌘⇧D is left alone, since many people bind it system-wide.

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Around the app

Documents

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With the mouse

What is deliberately not there