Based on my searches here, it doesn’t look like there are keyboard shortcuts for some actions that I use a lot — “back”, “forward”, and “copy internal link for current note to clipboard”. Any chance of those being added in the future?

There’s currently no shortcuts for these, but there might be a GSoC project to add keyboard shortcut customisation, and that will most likely cover these actions.

Nice coincidence - I just came here to look if there's some plans for keyboard shortcuts, and find this topic as the topmost one :slight_smile: What I'm mostly looking for is "Jump to previous note" and "Jump to next note". I assume that's what Rob means with "back" and "forward"? I often edit some…

@Rob @philip-n I also request you guys to list out the shortcuts you use HERE for the future reference and implementation of the idea, so that we can list the shortcuts used most by users for different actions. Thanks. :smile:

Alternatively, adding navigation and copy-link to the menu bar would make it easy to create your own shortcuts via the OS. I would really like some way, any way of adding shortcuts for these operations.

Do you think it would be useful if the editor remembers the cursor position of the previous and next notes? Is it something that bothers you when working on multiple notes in parallel?

[image] naviji: Do you think it would be useful if the editor remembers the cursor position of the previous and next notes? I'd like it to do that. (No need to persist this between sessions tho, given the extra metadata that would need)

In general: Yes, jumping forth and back to the specific cursor position would probably be helpful! In addition to this, you got me thinking about additional shortcuts for quickly moving through a structured note: “go to previous/next main heading” (or subheading) a shortcut similar to the global …

[image] laurent: There’s currently no shortcuts for these, but there might be a GSoC project to add keyboard shortcut customisation, and that will most likely cover these actions. I just checked in the latest beta and I don't see these in the new shortcut editor - I don't know how much troubl…

Has something changed? I think there is a shortcut for 'Back', but what about 'Forward'?

Keyboard shortcuts for "back", "forward", and "copy internal link for current note to clipboard"?

Features

muzak 28 April 2024 17:34 12

I'm not aware of a keyboard shortcut for copying internal links yet. As for back and forward:

Topic		Replies	Views
Back and Forward-Button Support	4	740	24 December 2025
Feature request: Back button Features	14	2267	11 December 2020
Shortcut for previous/next note Features	4	1307	27 December 2020
Suggestion re: note navigation for those using programmable mice Lounge	4	489	9 September 2026
Shortcut for moving back/forward between notes Support	2	553	6 September 2022

Keyboard shortcuts for "back", "forward", and "copy internal link for current note to clipboard"?

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