Keyboard shortcuts

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Keyboard shortcuts

Everything Lettuce binds today, grouped by where it applies. Most also appear in the menu bar (with the shortcut shown) or as a toolbar button tooltip.

App & window

Shortcut Action
⌘, Settings
⌘W Close window
⌘+ / ⌘= Zoom the text larger
⌘− Zoom the text smaller
⌥⌘C Compose mode — hide the side panels
⌥⌘I Toggle the inspector
⌘/ Show this keyboard-shortcuts cheat sheet

File

Shortcut Action
⌘N New note in the current folder
⌃⌘N New quick note — instant empty note in the Inbox, ready to type
⌃⌘C Quick Capture — jot a note (→ Inbox) or a task, without leaving your note (⌘↩ to add)
⇧⌘N New group (folder)
⌥⌘D Open today’s note (daily note)
⌥⌘T Open Tasks — the vault-wide open-to-do rollup
⌃⌘T Quick Capture in Task mode — append a - [ ] (with optional due date) to today’s note
⌘O Quick Open — jump to a note by name
⇧⌘O Open a vault folder
⌘S Save the current note

Import, Insert Template, Open Inbox, Open Recent, and Export live in the File menu without a shortcut.

View

Shortcut Action
⌘E Edit mode
⌘R Read mode
⇧⌘E Enhanced (AI) mode

Note

Shortcut Action
⇧⌘K AI actions — run an AI action on the current note (the command palette)
⌘F Find in note (find & replace while editing, the find bar while reading)
⌥⌘1⌥⌘9 Jump to pinned note 1–9

Pin, Rename, Duplicate, Reveal in Finder, Version History, and Move to Trash are on the Note menu and the right-click menu.

Formatting (in the editor)

Shortcut Action
⌘B / ⌘I Bold / italic
⌘K Insert link
⌘1 / ⌘2 / ⌘3 Heading 1 / 2 / 3
⇧⌘8 Bullet list
⇧⌘7 Numbered list

The editor & find bar

The note editor is CodeMirror 6, so its standard text-editing shortcuts apply — ⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z undo & redo, ⌘A select all, plus the usual arrow/word motions. Lettuce doesn’t remap these.

Shortcut Action
⌘F Open find & replace
⌘G / ⇧⌘G Next / previous match (find panel)
/ ⇧↵ Next / previous match (reader find bar)
Tab Indent
Esc Close the find panel, otherwise leave Edit mode
Shortcut Action
Move the selected note to trash (file tree focused)
Rename the selected note (file tree focused)
/ Move the selection in Quick Open / the command palette
/ Esc Open the selection / dismiss the dialog

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