Keyboard shortcuts for modes and notes
Switch modes and manage notes without leaving the keyboard.
- iPad
- Mac
Modes
- ⌘W: Write
- ⌘F: Freewriting space
- ⌘P: Background sounds
Notes (Mac)
- ⌘N: new note
- ⌘⌫: delete the selected notes
In Freewriting
- ⌘↩: new page
Menu bar icon (Mac, while its menu is open)
- ⌘N new note, ⌘R resume last note, ⌘F Freewriting, ⌘A Ask, ⌘C Create, ⌘Q quit
Good to know
- For text styles and lists, see Formatting shortcuts.
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