editor-reference.md

Navigation

• Use keyboard arrow keys to move around.
• Use Ctrl+ArrowLeft and Ctrl+ArrowRight to move by words.
• Use Home and End to move to line start and line end.
• Use PageUp/PageDown to jump by blocks.
• When opening a different note, you can use browser Back/Forward button to navigate. By default, Alt+ArrowLeft goes back. Alt+ArrowRight goes forward. It may differ across browsers.
• When you place cursor inside the () portion of a link, use Enter to open the link.

Using command bar

• Use Ctrl+Space to open command bar. You can type the character in bracket to select/active an item.

Editing

Text manipulation

• Use Alt+ArrowUp and Alt+ArrowDown to move a line.
• Use Alt+Shift+ArrowUp and Alt+Shift+ArrowDown to duplicate a line.
• Use Alt+, and Alt+. to decrease/increase indentation.
• All manipulations also support vim keys: H/J/K/L

Knowledge capture

Create a new note

Create by title

1. Use Ctrl+o (a shortcut for Ctrl+Space, o) to open command input.
2. Type in the name of note.
3. Press Enter to confirm.

Create by url capture

1. Use Ctrl+o to open command input.
2. Paste the url you want to capture.
3. Press Enter to confirm.

Search existing notes

Full text search

1. Use Ctrl+o to open command input.
2. Type in search query.
3. Use ArrowUp and ArrowDown to select result.
4. Press Enter to confirm. If you don't select any result, a new note will be created with your query as the title.

Tag search

1. Use Ctrl+o to open command input.
2. Type in your text query, followed by -t, then tags. The combined query looks like: <text_query> -t <tag1>, <tag2>, <tag3>.
3. Use ArrowUp and ArrowDown to select result.
4. Press Enter to confirm. If you don't select any result, a new note will be created with your query as the title.

Link to a note

Add link to selected text

1. Select text (Shift+Arrow keys)
2. Use Ctrl+i (Shortcut for Ctrl+Space, k) to open command input.
3. Type in your query to search notes.
4. Use ArrowUp and ArrowDown to select result.
5. Press Enter to confirm.
6. If you don't select any result and press Enter, you will to taken to create a new note.
   1. Edit the new note. Press Enter to save. You may close the newly saved note.
   2. The previous note will automatically link to the newly created note. Remember to save it as well.

Replace selected text with the title of a note and link to it

1. Select text.
2. Use Ctrl+Space, i to open command input.
3. Same steps as above.

Add tags

1. Move the caret to the metadata line that starts with #+tags:
2. Place the caret as the end of line
3. Use Ctrl+Space, t to open command input.
4. Type in tag name.
5. Select a search result or add a new tag.
6. After adding one tag, the command input will re-open so you can quickly add more tags.
7. When you finished add all tags, press Escape to exit command input.

Chores

Version management

Save file locally

• Use Ctrl+s (shortcut for Ctrl+Space, fs) to save the file you are editing.

Sync with remote

• Note this won't work until you configured Git hosting.
• Use Ctrl+Shift+s (shortcut for Ctrl+Space, fa) to save the file and sync all files.

Undo, redo

• Use Ctrl+z to undo.
• Use Ctrl+Shift+z to redo.

Find on page

• Use the browser find on page (Ctrl+F) feature.
• Use Escape key to exit find on page mode. Your caret should select the matching phrase.

Vim users

1. In the short term, a vim-like keybinding is very limited:
   • Command bar movement with Ctrl + J and Ctrl + K
   • Editor block movement with Ctrl + [/] for block travel. Combine with Shift for selection
2. In the long term:
   • Allow custom key binding.
   • Support modal vim.