Keyboard shortcuts in FUTO Notes
FUTO Notes on desktop uses Ctrl on Windows and Linux and Cmd on macOS for its shortcuts. Ctrl/Cmd+P searches your notes, Ctrl/Cmd+N starts a new note, and Ctrl/Cmd+F finds text in the open note. The full list is below. Where macOS uses a different key, the table says so.
On macOS, Alt is the Option key.
App and navigation
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl/Cmd+P | Search notes |
| Ctrl/Cmd+N | New note |
| Ctrl/Cmd+, | Open Settings |
| Ctrl/Cmd+\ | Show or hide the sidebar |
| Cmd+Shift+W | Close the window (macOS only) |
| Ctrl+Q | Quit (Windows and Linux) |
On macOS these commands also appear in the menu bar under the app menu, File, and View. Windows and Linux have no menu bar, so the shortcuts are the keyboard route there.
Tabs
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl/Cmd+T | New tab |
| Ctrl/Cmd+W | Close the current tab |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T | Reopen the last closed tab |
| Ctrl+Tab | Next tab (Ctrl on every platform, including macOS) |
| Ctrl+Shift+Tab | Previous tab |
| Ctrl+Page Down / Ctrl+Page Up | Next / previous tab |
| Cmd+Alt+Right / Cmd+Alt+Left | Next / previous tab (macOS only) |
| Ctrl/Cmd+1 to Ctrl/Cmd+8 | Go to tab 1 to 8 |
| Ctrl/Cmd+9 | Go to the last tab |
On macOS, Ctrl/Cmd+W closes the tab, not the window. Use Cmd+Shift+W to close the window.
Clicking a note in the sidebar, or a wikilink in a note, opens it in the current tab. Ctrl/Cmd+click or Shift+click opens it in a new tab behind the current one, and Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+click opens it in a new tab and switches to it.
Search notes
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl/Cmd+P | Open search |
| Up / Down | Move through the results |
| Enter | Open the highlighted note |
| Escape | Close search |
See search for what the search box matches.
Find in the open note
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl/Cmd+F | Open the find bar. If text is selected, it is used as the query |
| Enter / Shift+Enter | Next / previous match, while typing in the find bar |
| Ctrl/Cmd+G / Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+G | Next / previous match, from anywhere while the find bar is open |
| Escape | Close the find bar and return to the note |
Ctrl/Cmd+G does nothing when the find bar is closed. Find does nothing on the Home tab, which has no note, or while the search window is open.
Text formatting
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl/Cmd+B | Bold |
| Ctrl/Cmd+I | Italic |
| Ctrl/Cmd+E | Inline code |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+X | Strikethrough |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Z | Undo |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z or Ctrl/Cmd+Y | Redo |
With text selected, each formatting shortcut applies to the selection. Pressing it again removes the formatting.
Blocks
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+0 | Text (removes a heading) |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+1 to 6 | Heading 1 to 6 |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+7 | Numbered list |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+8 | Bullet list |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+B | Quote |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+C | Code block |
Selecting text also opens a toolbar with Text, Heading 1, 2, and 3, Quote, Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, Code, and Link. Task lists and tables have no shortcut. Type their markdown or use the / menu, both covered in markdown in FUTO Notes.
Opening a note starts its undo history empty, so after you leave a note and come back, you can’t undo what you did before.
Lines and lists
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Enter | In a list, start the next item. A task starts unchecked. On an empty item, end the list |
| Tab / Shift+Tab | In a list, nest / un-nest the item. In a code block, indent / outdent |
| Ctrl/Cmd+] / Ctrl/Cmd+[ | Indent / outdent a list item or quote |
| Backspace at the start of an item’s text | Outdent a nested item one level, or remove the list marker |
| Ctrl/Cmd+Enter | Insert an empty line below the current one and move to it |
| Escape, then Tab | Move keyboard focus out of a code block |
Inside a code block, Tab indents instead of moving focus. Press Escape and then Tab to leave it with the keyboard. Elsewhere, Tab outside a list moves focus as usual.
The / menu
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
/ at the start of a line | Open the Insert block menu |
| Up / Down | Move through the items |
| Enter or Tab | Insert the highlighted item |
| Escape | Close the menu |
Tables
These keys work while you’re typing in a table’s cells:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Tab | Next cell. Past the last cell, adds a row |
| Shift+Tab | Previous cell |
| Enter | Cell below in the same column. On the last row, add a row |
| Down at the end of a cell / Up at the start | Cell below / cell above |
| Escape | Leave the table |
Wikilinks
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
[[ | Open the list of notes to link to |
| Up / Down | Move through the list |
| Enter or Tab | Insert the highlighted note |
| Escape | Close the list and keep what you typed |
iOS and Android
The iOS and Android apps don’t have their own keyboard shortcuts. There is no shortcut for search, new note, or find, and no tabs. Find in note is in the editor’s overflow menu, and formatting is in the toolbar above the keyboard.
The note editor on phones is the same editor as on desktop, so typed markdown works the same with a hardware keyboard. The editing shortcuts above come from that shared editor too, but they haven’t been tested with hardware keyboards on iOS or Android.
Next steps
- Markdown: the syntax and
/menu for blocks that have no shortcut. - Search: how Ctrl/Cmd+P matches and ranks notes.
- Download FUTO Notes for Windows, macOS, or Linux.