# Keyboard shortcuts > Every shortcut the app actually listens for: the palette, the go-to chords, board selection, the one-key Inbox queue and the note editor. Press `?` anywhere outside a text field and the same list opens in the app. On Windows and Linux, read `⌘` as `Ctrl`. > **On the phone:** On a phone or tablet the app hides these hints, since there is no keyboard > to press them on. Quick capture there is the feather button in the header. ## Anywhere | Keys | What it does | | ------- | ---------------------------------- | | `⌘ K` | Search and commands | | `/` | The same panel, without a modifier | | `⌘ ⇧ P` | Straight into commands | | `⌘ ⇧ K` | Quick capture to the Inbox | | `⌘ J` | Margin Intelligence | | `?` | This list | | `⌘ Z` | Undo, across the app | | `⌘ ⇧ Z` | Redo | `⌘ 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](https://themarginapp.com/docs/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. ![G then B for Boards, G then C for Calendar, G then T back to Today (14 seconds, silent).](https://themarginapp.com/docs/media/loops/dl165/dl165-poster.webp) _G then B for Boards, G then C for Calendar, G then T back to Today (14 seconds, silent)._ | Keys | Goes to | | ----- | ---------- | | `G T` | Today | | `G B` | Boards | | `G C` | Calendar | | `G L` | Checklists | | `G S` | Settings | Everything else is in the palette by name, which is why this list is short and stays short. ## On a board | Keys | What it does | | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------- | | `V L` | Toggle list view | | `⌘` `Click` | Add or remove a card | | `⇧` `Click` | Select a range, in list view | | `⌘` `Click` on a column header | Select the column | | `Enter` | Open the focused card | | `Esc` | Clear the selection | | `Del` | Delete what is selected | | `⌫` | Delete what is selected | > **Tip: Select first, then act** Build a selection with `⌘` `Click`, then move, label or delete the whole set > at once. One `⌘ Z` undoes the whole set. ## 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. ![J and K move through the Inbox, and N keeps a capture as a note (14 seconds, silent).](https://themarginapp.com/docs/media/loops/dl167/dl167-poster.webp) _J and K move through the Inbox, and N keeps a capture as a note (14 seconds, silent)._ | Keys | What it does | | --------- | ---------------------------- | | `J` / `K` | Move through the queue | | `N` | Keep it as a note | | `B` | Send it to a board | | `A` | Append it to a note you keep | | `E` | Edit it first | | `⌫` | Delete it | | `Q` | Jump to the capture field | 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. > **Side note:** Delete is `⌫`, not `D`. D is the letter people hit by accident while > reading. ## In a note These live in the note editor, so the `?` list leaves them out. | Keys | What it does | | --------------- | ------------------------------------------ | | `⌘ B` | Bold | | `⌘ I` | Italic | | `⌘ E` | Inline code | | `Tab` / `⇧ Tab` | Indent or outdent | | `Enter` | Carry a list on to the next line | | `Esc` | Close a suggestion menu, then stop editing | 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. | Keys | What it does | | ----------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Hold `Ctrl ⇧ Space` | Talk while you hold, and let go to finish. On a Mac it is `⌃ ⇧ Space` | | `Enter` or `Space` on the mic | Start, then press again to finish | See [Talking instead of typing](https://themarginapp.com/docs/voice). 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. **Where to next** - [Notes](https://themarginapp.com/docs/notes): capture, the Inbox and linking notes together - [Boards and cards](https://themarginapp.com/docs/boards-and-cards): what a selection can do once you have one - [Margin Intelligence](https://themarginapp.com/docs/margin-ai): what `⌘ J` opens --- Section: Control and connections. Checked against the running product on October 5, 2026. Web page: https://themarginapp.com/docs/keyboard-shortcuts. Every docs page: https://themarginapp.com/docs/llms.txt