Keyboard shortcuts

Press ? anywhere outside a text field and the same list opens in the app. On Windows and Linux, read ⌘ as Ctrl.

Anywhere#

⌘K and / open the panel ready to search. Type > at the start and it turns into the list of commands, which is where ⌘⇧P takes you directly.

Search reads the database on your device, so notes, cards, boards, whiteboards, checklists and habits are found offline. On Pro, Family and Team it also finds pictures and PDFs by a word inside them, under Words in files; that group needs a connection. See Files and scans.

Quick capture has a modifier so that it works inside text fields too. A thought that arrives while you are writing something else goes to the Inbox without you clicking out of the box first.

Outside the app, themarginapp.com/capture opens straight to a blank capture, so a shortcut your computer runs (macOS Shortcuts, Raycast, a Windows shortcut key on the installed app) can open it in one press.

Undo covers the whole app rather than one editor, including a batch of cards changed at once.

Go to#

Press G, then the letter. You type the pair one after the other, and nothing is held down.

Everything else is in the palette by name, which is why this list is short and stays short.

On a board#

In the Inbox#

The Inbox is a queue, so its keys are single letters with no modifier. None of them fire while you are typing in a field, so the capture box never loses a word to a shortcut.

The arrow keys move through the queue as well. Acting with nothing selected takes the item at the top, so the first decision costs one key.

In a note#

These live in the note editor, so the ? list leaves them out.

Type / for the command menu and [[ to link to another note. Markdown itself works as you type.

Dictating into a field#

Where a field has a mic beside it (a note, a card's title, a comment, a chat message and others), you can talk without the mouse.

See Talking instead of typing.

Distraction-free mode is in the note's action menu rather than on a key, because the obvious key for it is the one your browser already uses for full screen.