Keyboard shortcuts

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Note navigation
Tabs
Creating notes
Moving / cloning notes
Editing notes
Runtime shortcuts
Other

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).

It is also possible to configure most keyboard shortcuts in Options -> Keyboard shortcuts. Using global: prefix, you can assign a shortcut which will work even without Trilium being in focus (requires app restart to take effect).

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 subtree (if some subtree takes too much space on tree pane you can collapse it)
you can define a label #keyboardShortcut with e.g. value Ctrl+I. Pressing this keyboard combination will then bring you to the note on which it is defined. Note that Trilium must be reloaded/restarted (Ctrl+R) for changes to be in effect.

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

Trilium uses CKEditor 5 for the text notes and CodeMirror 5 for code notes. Check the documentation of these projects to see all their built-in keyboard shortcuts.

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
CTRL+- - zoom out
CTRL+= - zoom in

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

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Basic concepts
- Document
- Note
- Navigation
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Themes
  - Theme Gallery
- Import & Export
Installation & setup
Advanced usage
- Attributes
- Relation map
- Note map
- Book note
- Sharing
- Code notes
- Advanced showcases
- ETAPI (REST API)
- Default note title
Developer guides
- Frontend Basics
- Widget Basics
FAQ
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