Keyboard shortcuts

Shady Notes is built to be driven from the keyboard. Every action below can be remapped in Preferences → Shortcuts, and any of them can be disabled outright if it clashes with something else you use.

Note

These are the defaults. If you have remapped an action, the app’s own overlay is the authority — press ⌘/ to see your current bindings.

Formatting

Action	Shortcut
Bold	⌘B
Italic	⌘I
Inline Code	⌘K
Highlight	⇧⌘H
Code Block	⇧⌘K
Bullet List	⌥⌘8
Numbered List	⌥⌘7
Toggle Checkbox	⌘T
Toggle Checkbox Prefix	⇧⌘T

Editor

Action	Shortcut
Close / Collapse	⌘W
Open Slash Menu	⌘.
Theme Picker	⌥⌘T
Shortcuts Overlay	⌘/
Toggle Read-Only	⌘E
Toggle Raw Markdown	⌃E

Navigation

Action	Shortcut
Next Tab	⌃⇥
Previous Tab	⌃⇧⇥
Next Tab Group	⌥⇥
Previous Tab Group	⌥⇧⇥
Move Lines Up	⌥↑
Move Lines Down	⌥↓

Zoom

Action	Shortcut
Zoom In	⌘=
Zoom Out	⌘-
Reset Zoom	⌘0

Headings

Action	Shortcut
Heading 1	⌥⌘1
Heading 2	⌥⌘2
Heading 3	⌥⌘3
Heading 4	⌥⌘4
Heading 5	⌥⌘5

Navigator

Action	Shortcut
Show in Finder	⇧⌘G
Show in Workspace	⌘G
Copy Path	⇧⌘C

Global hotkeys

Three shortcuts work from any app, not just inside the editor. All three are set in Preferences → Shortcuts.

Action	Default
Toggle the shade	⌃⌥⌘↓
New sticky note	unset by default
Open the Navigator	unset by default

Notes on a few of these

• ⌘W is Close / Collapse, not “quit”. It closes the current tab, or collapses the shade when only one tab is open.
• ⌃E toggles raw Markdown; ⌘E toggles read-only. They are easy to confuse — raw mode changes how the text is drawn, read-only changes whether you can type.
• ⌥⇥ and ⌥⇧⇥ move between workspaces, while ⌃⇥ and ⌃⇧⇥ move between tabs inside one workspace.
• The three Navigator shortcuts only apply inside the Navigator window.