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Obsidian keyboard shortcuts

Default hotkeys for notes, search, navigation, and formatting.

16 shortcuts Mac and Windows

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About Obsidian and its shortcuts

Obsidian is a local notes application built on plain files, and its keyboard centres on the command palette, the quick switcher between notes, and the panes and tabs you arrange around them. Linking notes is the action it is designed around, and it has keys for it.

Community plugins add bindings freely and every default can be changed, so two installations rarely match. Obsidian also changes defaults between major versions.

Where the Obsidian keys came from

Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of Obsidian. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as Obsidian, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task