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Keyboard shortcuts

Every shortcut in Consistent Notes, grouped the way the app groups them.

Hold for three-quarters of a second, anywhere in the app, and the shortcuts overlay appears — filtered to wherever you are (list, editor, or ToDos) and to vim variants when vim is on. This page is that overlay, plus the shortcuts it doesn’t show.

The global shortcut

ShortcutAction
CShow or hide Consistent Notes from anywhere (changeable in Settings → Shortcuts)

Notes list

ShortcutAction
Open today’s entry
Open the selected day
Close the editor
Move up the list
Move down the list
Top of list
Start of month
NGo to Notes List
YGo to Year View
TGo to ToDos
,Settings
FSearch every entry
Hold Shortcuts overlay

Editor

ShortcutAction
BBold
IItalic
Ecode
LLink
UUnderline
SStrikethrough
BBlockquote
1Heading 1
2Heading 2
3Heading 3
7Ordered list
8Unordered list
[ then ]Todo checkbox
:Add emoji
FFind in this entry
FSearch every entry
RRoll over todos
;Check spelling (with spell check on)
TToggle the formatting toolbar
SSave now
Save and close
[Previous day’s entry
]Next day’s entry
TGo to ToDos
NGo to Notes List
YGo to Year View
Indent
Outdent
Close the editor
?See vim keybindings (vim on)

ToDos tab

ShortcutAction
Open today’s entry
Open the most recent entry for a todo
Open the original entry
Toggle the selected todo
Move up the todos
Move down the todos
First todo
Last todo
NGo to Notes List
YGo to Year View
TGo to ToDos
,Settings
Hold Shortcuts overlay

Vim (when enabled)

With vim mode on, the lists take j / k / gg / G / o / O, and the editor becomes fully modal — motions, operators, text objects, visual modes, u / r undo/redo, / find. ? in the editor shows the complete vim reference. See Vim mode.