Keyboard shortcuts

This is supposed to be a complete list of keyboard shortcuts. Note that some of these may work only in certain contexts (e.g. in tree pane or note editor).

Note navigation

• UP, DOWN - go up/down in the list of notes, CTRL-SHIFT-UP and CTRL-SHIFT-DOWN work also from editor
• LEFT, RIGHT - collapse/expand node
• ALT+LEFT, ALT+RIGHT - go back / forwards in the history
• CTRL+J - show "Jump to" dialog
• CTRL+. - scroll to current note (useful when you scroll away from your note or your focus is currently in the editor)
• BACKSPACE - jumps to parent note
• ALT+C - collapse whole note tree
• ALT+- (alt with minus sign) - collapse sub-tree (if some subtree takes too much space on tree pane you can collapse it)

See demo of some of these features in note navigation.

Tabs

• CTRL+click - (or middle mouse click) on note link opens note in a new tab

Only in desktop (electron build):

• CTRL+T - opens empty tab
• CTRL+W - closes active tab
• CTRL+Tab - activates next tab
• CTRL+Shift+Tab - activates previous tab

Creating notes

• CTRL+O - creates new note after the current note
• CTRL+P - creates new sub-note into current note
• F2 - edit prefix of current note clone

Moving / cloning notes

• CTRL+UP, CTRL+DOWN - move note up/down in the note list
• CTRL+LEFT - move note up in the note tree
• CTRL+RIGHT - move note down in the note tree
• SHIFT+UP, SHIFT+DOWN - multi-select note above/below
• CTRL+A - select all notes in the current level
• SHIFT+click - multi select note which you clicked on
• CTRL+C - copies current note (or current selection) into clipboard (used for cloning)
• CTRL+X - cuts current (or current selection) note into clipboard (used for moving notes)
• CTRL+V - pastes note(s) as sub-note into current note (which is either move or clone depending on whether it was copied or cut into clipboard)
• DEL - delete note / sub-tree

Editing notes

• ENTER in tree pane switches from tree pane into note title. Enter from note title switches focus to text editor. CTRL+. switches back from editor to tree pane.
• CTRL+K - create / edit external link
• CTRL+L - create internal (note) link
• ALT+T - inserts current date and time at caret position
• CTRL+. - jump away from the editor to tree pane and scroll to current note

Runtime shortcuts

These are hooked in Electron to be similar to native browser keyboard shortcuts.

• F5, CTRL-R - reloads trilium frontend
• CTRL+SHIFT+I - show developer tools
• CTRL+F - show search dialog

Other

• ALT+O - show SQL console (use only if you know what you're doing)
• ALT+M - distraction-free mode - display only note editor, everything else is hidden
• F11 - toggle full screen
• CTRL+S - toggle search form in tree pane
• ALT+A - show note attributes dialog