Desktop only
Keyboard shortcuts
Every desktop shortcut, grouped by what you are doing at the time.
On this page
On macOS, read Ctrl as Cmd throughout. The phone has no keyboard shortcuts; everything there is a tap or a long-press.
Around the app
| Ctrl+N | New note |
| Ctrl+Shift+N | New SILO |
| Ctrl+F | Focus the note-list search |
| Ctrl+K | Command palette |
| Ctrl+1 | Notes |
| Ctrl+2 | Chat |
| Ctrl+3 | Record |
| Ctrl+4 | Library |
| Ctrl+5 | Tasks |
| Ctrl+, | Settings |
| Ctrl+Plus / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0 | Interface scale up, down, reset |
| Ctrl+Shift+Space | Quick Capture, from anywhere on the desktop |
Toggle Sidebar has no shortcut
Use the View menu item or the command palette. Ctrl+\ belongs to the split pane, below. Builds before 2026-08-30 showed Ctrl+\ beside Toggle Sidebar in the View menu; that label was wrong and has been removed.Panes
| Ctrl+\ | Open a new split pane beside the active one |
| Ctrl+Shift+\ | Zoom the active pane to full size, and back |
| Alt+1 … Alt+4 | Jump to pane 1 through 4 |
Writing
| Ctrl+B | Bold. Inline with a selection, whole-block without one |
| Ctrl+I | Italic, same two modes |
| Ctrl+K | Insert a link, with the URL pre-selected |
| Enter | New block, or a new item in the current list |
| Shift+Enter | Line break inside the block |
| Backspace at the start | Demote a list item to text, or merge into the block above |
| Tab / Shift+Tab | Indent / outdent |
| Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y | Undo / redo |
| Ctrl+C with blocks selected | Copy the selection as Markdown |
| Ctrl+Click a link | Open it |
| Up at the start / Down at the end | Move to the neighbouring block |
Moving around a note
| F2 / Shift+F2 | Next / previous flag |
| F3 / Ctrl+G | Next find match |
| Shift+F3 / Ctrl+Shift+G | Previous find match |
| Esc | Clear a block selection, or close find, the palette, a lightbox, or a modal |