Keyboard shortcuts

The keys NotaBene answers to, and where to find the complete list in the app.

On the Mac, and on an iPad with a keyboard attached, NotaBene has a full menu bar with keyboard shortcuts. Settings ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts lists all of them, together with the Markdown markers that turn into formatting as you type. It is a reference page; nothing on it can be changed.

The markers you type — # for a heading, - for a bullet, **bold** and the rest — are listed in Write and format. Typing / inserts anything a note can hold; see Insert anything with /.

Make things

⌘N — new note (in the Templates list, a new template)
⌘T — a task from the selected words in a note
⌘D — duplicate the note
⌘, — Settings (Mac)
⌘? — this guide (Mac)

Write

⌘B, ⌘I, ⌘U — bold, italic, underline
⌘Z — undo
⇧⌘V — paste the plain text, read as Markdown
⇧⌘C — copy the selection as Markdown
⌘K — add a link
⇧⌘K — add a comment to the selected words
⌃⌘↑, ⌃⌘↓ — move the paragraph, list item or block up or down (Format ▸ Move Item)
Tab, ⇧Tab — nest a list item in, or bring it back out
⌘P — print the note, or the PDF open in the annotator
⌃⌘O — open the note in its own window

Find and move around

⇧⌘O — Open Quickly: type a few letters of a note, a notebook, a tag or a command, and press Return (Mac, and iPad with a keyboard). ⌘Return opens a note in its own window (Mac)
⌘F — find in the open note or PDF
⌘G, ⇧⌘G — next and previous match
⌘[, ⌘] — back and forward, also in this guide
↑, ↓ — walk the note list once you have clicked in it
⌘Space — Spotlight, which finds your notes by any word in them (Mac)

Pick several notes or tasks

⌘-click — pick a note or task out, or put it back
⇧-click — take everything between the last one picked and this one
⇧↓, ⇧↑ — take the next one along, or give it back
Escape — put the selection down
⌘⌫ — move the picked notes to the Trash, or in the Trash delete them permanently; with nothing picked, it acts on the open note. With tasks picked, it deletes them. With several picked, it asks first.

Selected blocks

Click a block's grip (☰, in the margin beside it) to select the whole block.

⌘-click a grip — add that block, or take it off
⇧-click a grip — add every block up to that one
↑, ↓ — select the block above or below
⇧↑, ⇧↓ — grow the selection, or shrink it again
⌘C, ⌘X — copy or cut the blocks
⌫ or ⌦ — delete the blocks (asks first)
⌃⌘↑, ⌃⌘↓ — move the blocks up or down together
Return — go back to writing, at the end of the block
Escape — cancel the selection

Comments

Return — send the comment
⇧Return or ⌥Return — start a new line in it
While editing a comment: Return saves, Escape cancels

Elsewhere on the Mac

⌘C on a selected attachment — copy the file, to paste into Finder
⌘W — close the Settings window or a note's History window
In the welcome tour: the arrow keys move between screens, Return continues and Escape leaves