Google Keep keyboard shortcuts
Note creation, navigation, pinning, archiving, and list shortcuts.
21 shortcuts Mac and Windows checked September 14, 2026
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- Google Keep Documented
| Action | Keys | Row actions |
|---|---|---|
| Compose a new note Notes view | Mac C 1 more variant | Source |
| Compose a new list Notes view | Mac L 1 more variant | Source |
| Search your notes Notes view | Mac / 1 more variant | Source |
| Select every note Notes view | Mac CmdA 1 more variant | Source |
| Show the keyboard shortcut list Notes view | Mac ? 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the next note Notes view | Mac J 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the previous note Notes view | Mac K 1 more variant | Source |
| Move the note to the next position Notes view | Mac ShiftJ 1 more variant | Source |
| Move the note to the previous position Notes view | Mac ShiftK 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the next list item List open | Mac N 1 more variant | Source |
| Go to the previous list item List open | Mac P 1 more variant | Source |
| Archive the note Note selected | Mac E 1 more variant | Source |
| Move the note to the bin Note selected | Mac # 1 more variant | Source |
| Pin or unpin the note Note selected | Mac F 1 more variant | Source |
| Select the note Notes view | Mac X 1 more variant | Source |
| Open the note Note focused | Mac Enter 1 more variant | Source |
| Switch between list and grid view Notes view | Mac CmdG 1 more variant | Source |
| Finish editing Editing a note | Mac Esc 1 more variant | Source |
| Show or hide checkboxes Editing a note | Mac CmdShift8 1 more variant | Source |
| Indent the list item Editing a list | Mac Cmd] 1 more variant | Source |
| Outdent the list item Editing a list | Mac Cmd[ 1 more variant | Source |
About Google Keep and its shortcuts
Google Keep is deliberately simple, and its keyboard matches: create a note or a list, move between notes, archive, and search. The navigation commands follow the pattern of other Google applications, so they will already feel familiar.
Keep is a web application and loses some combinations to the browser. The mobile applications do not share this keyboard at all.
Where the Google Keep keys came from
Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of Google Keep. Report a key that is wrong
To see how one action is done in other apps as well as Google Keep, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task