Keyboard

Every key below works on the canvas, and the shortcuts dialog (Mod+Shift+/ from the canvas) lists the same keys in the reader's own words, written for the platform it runs on. Mod is Command on a Mac and Control elsewhere. A test reads the keymaps the canvas and the opt-in features bind, and the few keys the view reads from the key event itself: a key this page lists that the code no longer binds fails it, and so does a key the canvas binds that this page or the dialog leaves out.

Text

Blocks

Markdown typed at the start of a block turns it, as in Notion: # to ###### for a heading, - , * or + for a bullet, 1. for a numbered item, [] for a task and > for a quote. They work in a bullet, a numbered item and a task as well as in a paragraph, except that a prefix never turns a block into the kind it already is (- in a bullet stays text), and the block keeps its indent. Undo straight after the conversion gives back the typed text. ---, $$ and a code fence turn a paragraph only.

Selection

Navigation

Shift with Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+End extends the selection to the start or the end of the document. On a Mac, ⌘⇧↑ and ⌘⇧↓ move the block instead, as listed under Blocks, and extend the selection to the edge only where the block cannot move, such as in the first block. Shift with an arrow keeps the caret's horizontal position from line to line, across blocks drawn in different fonts too.

↑ and ↓ keep the caret on the line they move to when the caret's horizontal position is past the end of that line. Where the line wraps after a space, the caret stops before that space, so typed text continues the line. Where it wraps after another character, such as a hyphen, the caret is drawn at the end of the line and not at the start of the next, and so is a caret placed by a click past the end of a wrapped line. A text selection drawn that way has assoc: -1, which the editor sets on these moves and clicks; it is never written to JSON or shared with collaborators, and any change that moves the caret drops it.

Menus

Opt-in features

Each of these keys works once its feature's extension is in extensions, directly or through catalogue().

In the find panel, Enter and Shift+Enter move to the next and the previous match. With an anchor of a comment under the caret, Mod+Alt+M opens its thread with focus in the reply field. In the AI menu, the arrows choose an action and Enter runs it; a second Space, or Escape, types the space instead. The toolbar beside a pasted link is reached with Alt+F10, and Escape leaves it.