Keyboard Shortcuts
Metis Shortcuts for Mac
Every shortcut is also shown next to its command in the menu bar, and the Command Palette (Shift-Cmd-P) lists every command.
Navigate
- Quick Switcher - open a note by title
- Cmd-O
- Command Palette
- Shift-Cmd-P
- Show or hide the Inspector (outline and local graph)
- Opt-Cmd-I
- Agenda
- Shift-Cmd-D
- Review
- Shift-Cmd-Y
- Ask Vault (on-device AI)
- Shift-Cmd-A
- Open a vault
- Shift-Cmd-O
- Reveal the note in Finder
- Shift-Cmd-R
Find and search
- Find in the open note
- Cmd-F
- Next / previous match
- Cmd-G / Shift-Cmd-G
- Use the selection for Find
- Cmd-E
- Find and replace in the note
- Opt-Cmd-F
- Search the whole vault
- Shift-Cmd-F
Tabs
- Open in a new tab
- Cmd-Return
- Next / previous tab
- Ctrl-Tab / Ctrl-Shift-Tab
- Jump to a tab
- Cmd-1 ... Cmd-9
- Close the tab (the window, on the last tab)
- Cmd-W
Notes and files
- New note
- Cmd-N
- Today's daily note
- Cmd-T
- New folder
- Shift-Cmd-N
- Lock the note
- Shift-Cmd-L
- Save a version (git vaults)
- Shift-Cmd-S
- Import
- Shift-Cmd-I
- Export the note
- Shift-Cmd-E
- Cmd-P
- Settings
- Cmd-,
- Check for updates
- Cmd-U
Formatting
- Bold
- Cmd-B
- Italic
- Cmd-I
- Strikethrough
- Shift-Cmd-X
- Link to a note
- Cmd-K
While editing
- Next / previous table cell
- Tab / Shift-Tab
- New table row
- Return (in a table)
- Accept a [[ link or # tag suggestion
- Return or Tab
From the menus
Live, Wysiwyg and Reading: Switch modes with the picker in the note toolbar. Settings > Editor sets the default mode for new notes.
Tables: Format > Table > Insert Table. The same submenu adds and removes rows and columns, sets alignment, and tidies the table.