This page is a reference card. The in-app Cmd+/ overlay has the same content; this version is shareable.
The chorded shortcuts below (Cmd+letter and friends) are the defaults, and every one of them is rebindable in Settings → Keyboard shortcuts — per device, so each machine can dodge its own browser's conflicts. The in-app overlay always shows your live bindings. Structural keys (Enter, Tab, arrows, Backspace) are fixed; they're the outline's grammar.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Enter | New sibling bullet |
| Shift+Enter | New child "note" bullet (annotation style) |
| Option+Enter | Literal newline inside the current bullet |
| Tab | Indent |
| Shift+Tab | Outdent |
| Backspace at start of bullet | Merge into previous |
| Alt+Shift+Up / Down | Move bullet within its siblings |
| Enter on a selected row | New bullet below it — click an attachment (PDF, email, image…) to select it first; this is how you add a line after an attachment |
| n with nothing focused | New bullet — on the Stream it lands on today; in the Library it lands at the end of the visible (or zoomed) level |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Shift+Up / Down | Extend selection across bullets |
| Cmd+A | Select all bullets on the page |
| Cmd+X / Cmd+C / Cmd+V | Cut / copy / paste, multi-bullet aware |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Cmd+B | Bold (wraps in **...**) |
| Cmd+I | Italic (wraps in *...*) |
| Cmd+U | Underline |
| Backticks | Inline code |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Cmd+Enter on a task | Toggle done |
/task then space |
Convert bullet to task |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Cmd+K | Palette — search pages, bullets, tags; type / to capture |
| Cmd+. | Zoom into the current bullet |
| Cmd+Shift+. | Zoom out (was Cmd+, — that chord belongs to the browser's settings on macOS) |
| Cmd+' | Go home |
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Cmd+Z | Undo — per-page, batches rapid edits within 500ms |
| Cmd+Shift+Z | Redo (Cmd+Y is unbound by default — it's the browser's History shortcut — but you can bind it back in Settings) |
Exporting a subtree (Markdown / OPML / Plain Text / Formatted HTML) lives in the bullet's ••• menu.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Escape | Exit edit mode |
| Cmd+/ | Open the in-app shortcut overlay |
(( — opens the reference picker. Pick any bullet to embed a live link to it. The popover also has a Create new node… action.
#word — inline tag. Word-boundary anchored, so a heading starting with # is not a tag.
Type the slash command followed by space at the start of a bullet to convert its type:
/note — the default/task/event/draw — under More…/ask — under More…The same kinds are the buttons at the top of a line's ••• menu, so none of these need typing.
Start a bullet with # , ## , or ### to render it as a heading.
Standard **bold**, *italic*, and inline code with backticks.