Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts save a trip to the menus for the things you do every day. Here’s every Varlig shortcut, grouped by what you’re doing, written the way the menus show them. Pick up the few you’ll use most, and come back for the rest.

Symbol	Key	Symbol	Key
⌘	Command	⌃	Control
⌥	Option	↩	Return
⇧	Shift	⌫	Delete

Notes and windows

Action	Shortcut	Menu
New note	⌘N	File
New note in a new window	⌥⌘N	File
Import notes	⇧⌘O	File
Export notes	⇧⌘S	File
Print note	⌘P	File
Empty Trash	⇧⌘⌫	File
Pin or unpin note	⇧⌘P	Note
Duplicate note	⇧⌘D	Note
Restore note from Trash	⇧⌘R	Note
Copy link to note	⌥⇧⌘L	Note
Copy note identifier	⌥⇧⌘I	Note
Open the main window	⌘\	View
Settings	⌘,	Varlig
Undo / Redo	⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z	Edit

Finding and moving around

Action	Shortcut	Menu
Quick Open a note, tag or section	⌘O	File
Quick Open a tag	⌥⇧⌘O	File
Search all notes	⇧⌘F	Edit
Find in note	⌘F	Edit
Find and replace	⌥⌘F	Edit
Back	⌘[	View
Forward	⌘]	View
Finish editing and leave the note	⌘↩	Format

These are in View › Go To.

Section	Shortcut
All Notes	⌥⌘1
Untagged	⌥⌘2
Todo	⌥⌘3
Today	⌥⌘4
Locked	⌥⌘5
Pinned	⌥⌘6
Trash	⌥⌘0
Archive	⌥⌘9

Layout and view

Action	Shortcut
Show Editor Only	⌃1
Show Notes and Editor	⌃2
Show Tags, Notes and Editor	⌃3
Toggle Style Bar	⇧⌘Y
Toggle Statistics	⇧⌘I
Toggle Table of Contents	⇧⌘A
Toggle Backlinks	⇧⌘B
Zoom In	⌘+
Zoom Out	⌘−
Actual Size	⌘0

Text formatting

With nothing selected, a style shortcut applies to what you type next. With the cursor inside a style, it removes it.

Action	Shortcut
Bold	⌘B
Italic	⌘I
Underline	⌘U
Strikethrough	⇧⌘U
Highlight	⇧⌘M
Heading 1 to 6	⌘1 to ⌘6
Quote	⇧⌘T
Inline code	⌥⌘C

Lists, lines and sections

Action	Shortcut
Bulleted list	⌘L
Numbered list	⇧⌘L
Todo	⌘T
Tick or untick a todo	⌘.
Shift line left	⌥⌘←
Shift line right	⌥⌘→
Move line up	⌥⌘↑
Move line down	⌥⌘↓
Delete to the start of a line	⌘⌫
Fold or unfold a section	⌘’

Heading, list, todo and quote shortcuts switch the lines back to ordinary text when they already have that formatting.

Inserting

Action	Shortcut
Calculation block	⌘Y
Code block	⌃⌘C
Table	⌥⌘T
Link	⌘K
Open link	⇧⌘K
Note link	⌘D
Footnote	⇧⌘E
Line separator	⌥⌘S
Attach files	⇧⌘V
Date and time	⇧⌘7
Date	⇧⌘8
Short date	⇧⌘9
Time only	⇧⌘0

Tables

Use these while you’re typing in a table cell.

Action	Shortcut
Next cell, or add a row at the end	Tab
Previous cell	⇧Tab
Cell below, or add a row at the end	↩
Back to the note	Escape or ⌘↩
Add a row below	⌃⌘↓
Add a column after	⌃⌘→
Delete the row	⌃⌘⌫
Delete the column	⌃⇧⌘⌫

Keys while you write

Key	What it does
↩ in a list or quote	Continues it. On an empty item, steps out one level.
Tab / ⇧Tab	Indents or outdents list items and code by two spaces.
`#`, `[[` or `:`	Opens suggestions for tags, note titles or emoji.
Escape in a calc block	Suggests function names.
Space on a picture	Previews the picture.

In a suggestion list, use ↑ and ↓ to move, ↩ or Tab to choose, and Escape to close. Suggestions need Autocomplete tags, wiki links and emoji turned on in Settings › General.

Shortcuts that work from any app

Settings › General › Keyboard shortcuts has two shortcuts you record yourself: Open Varlig and Create a new note. Once set, they work even when you’re in another app, so you can capture a thought the moment you have it. Each needs ⌘ or ⌃.

Open System Settings › Keyboard › Keyboard Shortcuts › App Shortcuts, add Varlig, and type the menu item’s name exactly as it appears in the menu, such as Highlight. The new shortcut appears in the menu. Inside the editor, Varlig’s own formatting keys may still work too.