System-Wide
- Ctrl+F12
- Capture selected text from active application as a new note. Title of the source application window is used as note’s title. This hot key is configurable.
- Ctrl+Alt+F12
- Activate CintaNotes window. This hot key is configurable.
- Ctrl+Shift+F12
- Create a new note and opens the editor window with it. This hot key is configurable.
Main Window
- Ins or Ctrl+N
- Create a new note.
- F1
- Display this help.
- Esc
- If a tag or text search filter is set, clear current filter to display all notes; otherwise minimize CintaNotes.
- Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab
- Ctrl+Left Arrow/Ctrl+Right Arrow (only when sectionbar.keys.ctrlleftright.enabled = 1) Switch view to next/previous section.
- Ctrl+1..0
- Switch view to section #1..#10.
- Ctrl+Shift+1..0
- Add or remove section #1..#10 to/from selection.
- Ctrl+Shift+Space
- Add all unselected sections to the current selection on the Section bar. If all sections are already selected, reset selection back to one section (the one that had been single-selected last).
- Ctrl+I
- Toggle current notebook section’s “inbox” status: an inbox section collects all clipped notes.
- Ctrl+Shift+Ins
- Create new notebook section.
- Ctrl+Shift+Del
- Delete currently selected notebook sections.
- Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Left/Right
- Move currently selected section to the left or to the right.
- Alt+Shift+D
- Sort notes list by Creation Time
- Alt+Shift+M
- Sort notes list by Modification Time
- Alt+Shift+T
- Sort notes list by Title
- Alt+Shift+S
- Sort notes list by note size
- Alt+Shift+U
- Use manual sort order
- Ctrl+U
- Display untagged notes.
- Esc
- By default: if text search filter is active, clear text search box. Otherwise, if tags filter is active, clear tags filter. Otherwise, if Options/Window/Minimize on ESC is checked, minimize window. (Please note that this behavior can be tweaked using the following cintanotes.settings parameters: filters.reset.onescape.enabled, filters.reset.onescape.multistep, app.mainframe.minimizeonescape.immediate.
- Shift+Esc
- Minimize window (keeping text and tag filters).
- F12
- Start/cancel Simplenote synchronization process.
Notes List
- Up
- Down
- PageUp
- PageDown
- Home
- End
- Move cursor, selecting the note under cursor.
- Right
- Left
- Shift+Right
- Shift+Left
- Scroll focused note’s text inline. With Ctrl scrolls by page, without Ctrl scrolls by line.
- Ctrl+Up
- Ctrl+Down
- Ctrl+PageUp
- Ctrl+PageDown
- Ctrl+Home
- Ctrl+End
- Move cursor without affecting selection.
- Shift+Up
- Shift+Down
- Shift+PageUp
- Shift+PageDown
- Shift+Home
- Shift+End
- Shift+Click
- Move cursor extending selection.
- Ctrl+Spacebar
- Ctrl+Click
- Toggle selection on current note.
- Ctrl+A
- Select all notes which currently appear in the list.
- <any character key>
- Start substring search using current search filter settings.
- Ctrl+F
- Move focus to the search box.
- Enter
- F2
- Double click
- Open a window for editing the current note.
- Shift+Enter
- Open a window for editing the current note and hides the main window.
- Alt+Enter
- Open the note properties window of the currently focused note.
- Del
- Delete selected notes.
- Ctrl+X
- Cut the selected notes into clipboard.
- Ctrl+C
- Copy the selected notes’ text into clipboard.
- Ctrl+Shift+C
- Copy selected notes into clipboard as text. Notes are copied in a format which includes note’s creation time, title, text, and link.
- Alt+Shift+C
- Copy links to selected notes into clipboard.
- Ctrl+V
- Paste clipboard contents as a new note. If the clipboard contents did not originate from CintaNotes, the creation time will be taken from the current time, and a copy of the first text line as will be used as the note title.
- Ctrl+M
- Merge two or more selected notes together. Text of the second and subsequent notes is appended to the text of the first (earliest) selected note, then the appended notes are removed since they are no longer necessary.
Only enabled when two or more notes are selected.
- F3
- If text search is active, focus next search highlight in current note’s preview.
- Shift + F3
- If text search is active, focus previous search highlight in current note’s preview.
- F7
- Alt+Click
- If currently focused note has a link, open this link using the default web browser.
- Alt+Up
- Alt+Down
- Alt+Home
- Alt+End
- Move selected notes up and down.
- BkSp or Alt+Left
- Go back in filter history.
- Shift+BkSp or Alt+Right
- Go forward in filter history.
- Ctrl+Shift+BkSp
- View filter history.
- Ctrl+BkSp
- Display similarly tagged notes. This command changes the tag selection on the Tag Sidebar to match the tags
of the currently focused note.
- Ctrl+Enter
- Middle click
- Paste selected notes’ text into previously active application. (Only with PRO License)
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter
- Paste selected notes’ Title, Text, and Link into previously active application. (Only with PRO License)
- Spacebar
- Focus next note.
- Holding Spacebar + Navigation Keys (Arrows, Home/End, PgUp/PgDown)
- Make all navigation keys apply to note’s previewed text instead of the note list. E.g. holding spacebar and pressing the Down key will scroll the text by one line.
- Hold Left Mouse Button + Mouse Wheel
- Hold Spacebar + Mouse Wheel
- Scroll note’s text inline.
Search Box
- Down
- Move focus to the notes list.
- Ctrl+Up
- Ctrl+Down
- Ctrl+PageUp
- Ctrl+PageDown
- Navigate search mode menu without opening it.
- Alt+Down
- Open the search mode menu.
- Ctrl+Home
- Ctrl+End
- Focus the notes list and moves cursor to start/end.
- Enter
- Ctrl+Enter
- Alt+Enter
- Shift+Enter
- Search for tags with the active search term and, if found, extract and select these tags on the Tag Sidebar. The modifier key, if present, determines which operation should be applied to the already existing tag selection: Ctrl=Intersect(AND), Alt=Negate(NOT), Shift=Union(OR).
If the search term is empty, “Untagged” is assumed.
Note Editor
- Ctrl+Down
- Move focus to the Tags field.
- Alt+Home (Alt+End)
- Move focus to the Text field and put caret to the very beginning (end) of the text.
- F3 (Shift+F3)
- Find and select next (previous) instance of the currently selected text (if present).
- F7
- If currently edited note has a link, open this link using the default web browser.
- Ctrl+Enter
- Save the note and close the editor window.
- Ctrl+Del
- Move edited note to Recycle Bin and close the editor window.
- Alt+Enter
- Open the note properties window of the edited note.
- Ctrl+S
- Save the note without closing the editor window.
- Ctrl+Shift+S
- Save the note without updating its modified time.
- Alt+C
- Close the editor window without saving the note (equals pressing Cancel button).
Note Editor – While Editing Note Text
- Ctrl+B
- Ctrl+I
- Ctrl+U
- Ctrl+K
- Ctrl+H
- Ctrl+M
- Toggle various formatting on currently selected text.
- Ctrl+L
- Cycle selection between no list, bulleted list and numbered list styles.
- Ctrl+D
- Clear currently selected text of any formatting.
- Alt+Shift+N
- Add a note link to currently selected text. If selection is empty adds title of linked note.
- Alt+Shift+F
- Add a link to a file on a disk.
- Alt+Shift+U
- Add a link to a URL.
- Alt+Shift+D
- Delete note links from currently selected text.
- Alt+Shift+V
- Paste note links from the clipboard.
- Ctrl+Z (Ctrl+Y)
- Undo (redo) last typing actions.
- F5 (When focus is in the Title, Text or Remarks field)
- Inserts current time stamp in the format defined in the system Control Panel.
- Shift+Enter
- Add a line break to the current list item.
- Ctrl+Tab
- Insert a TAB character. If the caret is at the paragraph’s start, or selection spans
more than one paragraph, indents selected paragraphs.
- Shift+Ctrl+Tab
- Outdent selected paragraphs.
- Alt+Shift+Left / Down / Right
- Align current paragraph (or selected paragraphs, if selection is not empty) left / center / right.
Tags Edit Field
- Ctrl+Spacebar
- Display the list of all existing tags minus the tags which are already entered in the textbox.
Tag Sidebar
- Middle Click
- Quickly add/remove a tag to/from selected notes.
- Ctrl+Click
- Intersect a tag with currently selected tags (tag AND operation).
- Shift+Click
- Add an alternative to currently selected tags (tag OR operation).
- Alt+Click
- Cross-out a tag and thus exclude notes with this tag from view (tag NOT operation).
- Ctrl+Alt+Click
- Cross out all tags except the clicked one (to display notes having this tag only and no other tags)
- Shift+Alt+Click
- Cross out all children of a parent tag to display notes having this parent tag but not having any of the child tags (see the Tag Hierarchy section for more details about parent and child tags)
- Ctrl+R
- Toggle the “Only Related” tag filter mode.
- Double-click on Up/Down scroll buttons
- Quickly scroll to start/end of the tag list.