Using keyboard shortcuts to navigate and edit your outline.

Using shortcuts allows you to quickely navigate and edit your outline without lifting your hands from your keyboard.

'Modifier' means the modifier key that you press when using the respective shortcut: Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Cmd (Mac), or the letters 'O' or 'Q'. You can change your preferred modifier key within the settings bar at the bottom of each outline.

Navigating an outline#

Select the previous node

Up arrow

Select the next node

Down arrow

Jump up n levels

Modifier + 1-9

Hoist to the selected node's wiki

Modifier + W

Pull the current root down a level

Modifier + P

Node actions#

Reload the selected node

Modifier + R

Hoist the selected node

Modifier + U

Showing and hiding nodes#

Expand a branch

Expand all branches

Modifier + E

Collapse a branch

Collapse all branches

Modifier + C

Show the current node's toolbar

Show all node's toolbars

Modifier + S

Hide the current node's toolbar

Show all nodes' toolbars

Modifier + H

Creating and editing nodes#

Create a sibling node

Enter

Create a child node

Modifier + Enter

Edit the currently selected node

Space

Switch between the node text and wiki form

Tab (open form)

Save a Block text node

(Ctrl, Alt or Cmd) + Enter

Moving nodes#

Move the currently selected node up

Modifier + Up arrow

Move the currently selected node down

Modifier + Down arrow

Demote the currently selected node

Tab

Promote the currently selected node

Backspace

Copying and pasting nodes#

Duplicate the currently selected node

Modifier + D

Add the currently selected node to the clipboard

Modifier + D + C

Add the currently selected node to a multi-select session

Modifier + D + M

Select down from a multi-selected node, to the currently selected node

Modifier + D

Select up from a multi-selected node, to the currently selected node

Modifier + U

Create a copy of the clipboard contents after the currently selected node

Modifier + D + P

Gather the clipboard contents below the currently selected node

Modifier + D + G

Merging and Splitting nodes #

Merge the currently selected node

Modifier + M

Split the currently selected node

Modifier + N

Marking nodes#

Mark the currently selected node as checked/un-checked

Modifier + X

Mark the currently selected node with a label

Modifier + L + [1-7] (use 0 to clear the label)

Mark the currently selected node with a highlight

Modifier + H + [1-9] (use 0 to clear the highlight)

Mark the currently selected node with a text color

Modifier + T + [1-9] (use 0 to clear the text color)

Mark the currently selected node with a priority

Modifier + P + [1-7] (use 0 to clear the priority)

Show the currently selected node's tagging functionality

Modifier + T

Attach a file to the currently selected node

Modifier + F

Removing nodes from the tree#

Archive the currently selected node

Modifier + A

Delete the currently selected node

Modifier + Backspace

Please note that if you are navigating your outline using keyboard shortcuts then you will need to ensure that your mouse cursor isn't left over the outline, otherwise it will keep selecting the node at this location every time the body of the outline moves.

You can also view the keyboard shortcuts as a page.