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💡 Only need the essentials? Check out Seven of our Favorite Amplenote Shortcuts.

link🖨️ Need a compact, printable version of this page?

link💡 Need to determine the hotkey for a clickable action?

Just remember: "hover to discover." Any icon/button on Amplenote that has a hotkey will show you the hotkey if you hover on it for a couple seconds. 😎

link📍 Navigation

Shortcuts for moving between notes and linking to notes.

linkQuick Open

Navigate by note titles, recent notes, or tag hierarchy. More on Quick Open here: How do I use Quick Open navigation?.

linkOpen Peek Viewer

Check out the Peek Viewer: Sidebar for multi-note viewing.

linkBrowse navigation history (backburger menu)

Arrow keys and Enter to navigate this menu using the keyboard.

linkOpen an existing note or PDF inside the Peek viewer

Notes can also be dragged from the note list and into the Peek Viewer pane.

linkOpen a new note inside the peek viewer

linkClose every other note in Peek Viewer, except the selected note

linkMove from/to note title to the note tags section

linkMove to note tags section from anywhere inside the note body

linkCreate a new note

linkVisit link at cursor

linkReturn to the previous note

In most cases, you can also use your browser's "back" shortcut, which tends to be

linkSearch for content inside a note

link🔗 Note linking

Create a new or link to an existing note Demo

Create or link to an existing note, transferring all the tags from the current note. Read more or see demo

Link to a new or existing note

link↗️ Import/Export

The below only work on the desktop client.

link🖥️ Display & Layout

Increase or decrease the number of panes shown

Toggle Right-To-Left mode

link✅ Tasks

All of the following shortcuts apply when the cursor is inside a task.

The easiest way to remember most of the Task Context shortcuts is that the first letter/number of the task context, plus Alt-Shift on Linux/Windows or Ctrl on macOS. We'll run down each of those individually below, but just think of them as the first letter/number.

Most task-related operations can be achieved Using the Keyboard-driven ! Task Commands Menu.

linkCreate a task

Alternately, you can press Ctrl-Enter twice on any block. The first press will transform your current block into a bullet list item; the second press will transform it into a task:

linkTask commands

Use this to see the available task commands when the cursor is inside a task:

linkMark task complete

Get full credit for completing a task by marking it complete. Read about task completion: Creating tasks & to-do lists, and configuring task options#✅ Completing tasks.

linkDismiss task

Get partial credit for getting rid of a task by dismissing it. Read about task dismissal: Creating tasks & to-do lists, and configuring task options#✏️ Dismissing tasks.

Tasks can also be dismissed by holding Alt and clicking the task's checkbox.

linkCross out task

Read about crossing out tasks: Creating tasks & to-do lists, and configuring task options#☑️ Crossing out tasks.

Tasks can also be crossed out by holding Shift and clicking the task's checkbox.

linkOpen/close Task Details

linkMark task Urgent

Alternately, tasks can be marked "Urgent" Using the Keyboard-driven ! Task Commands Menu

linkMark task Important

Alternately, tasks can be marked "Important" Using the Keyboard-driven ! Task Commands Menu

linkMark task duration

Alternately, task duration can be designated Using the Keyboard-driven ! Task Commands Menu

linkCreate a new line in a task

linkPaste into a task

linkExpand or collapse sub-tasks

Works when cursor resides within the parent task.

link🔮 Evaluation (calculator)

Using the evaluation menu, you can invoke a mini-calculator, a natural text date interepreter or the plugin command menu.

linkMath calculation

e.g., 2 314.15

linkDate and time calculation

💡 Quick tip: date and time calculation works in the Ctrl-O Quick-open menu too! Try it out or read more at How do I use Quick Open navigation?#Jump to a Daily Jot using date expansion.

Relative date calculation

Absolute dates

Past and future dates

Time calculation

Date and time calculation

linkPlugin command menu

The same menu can be used to invoke plugin actions from your list of installed plugins:

open_in_new

Type { followed by the name of the plugin to see all of that plugin's available actions. Press Enter to run it.

link🎨 Formatting

Most of these are available via the formatting toolbar when viewing note content. We've sorted roughly in order of how often they come in handy.

linkRich Footnotes

Link or Rich Footnote

Jump in or out of Rich Footnotes

Tab is the quickest way to start editing a Rich Footnote. When your cursor is over a Footnote's text, Tab enters the RF editor for you. When your cursor is inside the RF, Tab saves the changes you made to the RF and minimizes it for you.

linkOther text formatting

linkHeader 1

linkHeader 2

linkHeader 3

Convert header to standard paragraph

Horizontal Line

linkCreate a hard break/new line inside the current block

link🤼 Mix and match

Note that you can combine inline styling (bold, italic, strikethrough, code snippets, and links/rich footnotes) to block elements (headers, list items, and block quotes).

linkHere's an example of inline styling applied to a block element

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