Keyboard Shortcuts

This is supposed to be a complete list of keyboard shortcuts. Note that some of these may work only in certain contexts (e.g. in tree pane or note editor).

Configuring keyboard shortcuts#

It is also possible to configure most keyboard shortcuts in Options → Shortcuts.

On the Desktop Installation, it's also possible to make shortcuts global by pressing on the globe icon near the key combination, which makes the shortcut work even without Trilium being in focus.

Shortcut reference#

Tree#

See the corresponding section: Keyboard shortcuts

Note navigation#

  • Alt+←, Alt+→ – go back / forwards in the history
  • Ctrl+J – show "Jump to" dialog
  • Ctrl+. – scroll to current note (useful when you scroll away from your note or your focus is currently in the editor)
  • Backspace – jumps to parent note
  • Alt+C – collapse whole note tree
  • Alt+- (alt with minus sign) – collapse subtree (if some subtree takes too much space on tree pane you can collapse it)
  • you can define a label #keyboardShortcut with e.g. value Ctrl + I . Pressing this keyboard combination will then bring you to the note on which it is defined. Note that Trilium must be reloaded/restarted (Ctrl+R ) for changes to be in effect.

See demo of some of these features in note navigation.

Tabs#

  • Ctrl + 🖱 Left click – (or middle mouse click) on note link opens note in a new tab

Only in desktop (electron build):

  • Ctrl+T – opens empty tab
  • Ctrl+W – closes active tab
  • Ctrl+Tab – activates next tab
  • Ctrl+Shift+Tab – activates previous tab

Splits#

Split View can also be controlled through keyboard actions, such as:

  • Creating a new split
  • Closing the active split
  • Moving a split left/right
  • Focusing the split to the left/right.

All these keyboard shortcuts do not have a default set, go to Options → Shortcuts and look for the Split View category.

Creating notes#

  • Ctrl+O – creates new note after the current note
  • Ctrl+P – creates new sub-note into current note
  • F2 – edit the Branch prefix of current note clone

Editing notes#

  • Enter in tree pane switches from tree pane into note title. Enter from note title switches focus to text editor. Ctrl+. switches back from editor to tree pane.
  • Ctrl+. – jump away from the editor to tree pane and scroll to current note

Runtime shortcuts#

These are hooked in Electron to be similar to native browser keyboard shortcuts.

  • F5, Ctrl+R – reloads Trilium front-end
  • Ctrl+Shift+I – show developer tools
  • Ctrl+F – show search dialog
  • Ctrl+- – zoom out
  • Ctrl+= – zoom in

Other#

  • Alt+O – show SQL console (use only if you know what you're doing)
  • Alt+M – distraction-free mode - display only note editor, everything else is hidden
  • F11 – toggle full screen
  • Ctrl+S – toggle search form in tree pane
  • Alt+A – show note attributes dialog