I’d like to have a global hotkey within Windows so that I can create a note or search for a note using a hotkey from any application. For example, with my Evernote-client I do Win+N to automatically create a new Evernote-note with any application in focus.
Global system-wide hotkeys for creating and searching Obsidian will help me to really make it my second brain.
There are already two other posts on this:
- Meta Post - Hotkeys (Global Hotkeys within Windows)
- Global hotkey to add note
@lizardmenfromspace, should I post my suggestion here or create a new post about it and link to this post.
I really think that is a great ideia to aggregate all hotkeys in one place.
Create your own post then paste a link to said post as a comment to this one.
Got It!
Thanks!
This my post about a switching Panels:
Hotkey for turning Pin on/off:
Hotkey for navigating notes:
Styling shortcuts
(select text and hit shortcut to apply text styling)
bold (CMD + B)
italic (CMD + I)
url (CMD + K)
==highlight== ( no shortcut )
>code ( no shortcut )
$math$ ( no shortcut )
Would it be possible to get keyboard commands for the missing ones? Or is there a way to write new macros? CMD + SHIFT + H for highlight or something?
Typora has cmd-K for link, option-` for code, option-command-C for code block and command-option-B for math block (Mac).
I really need this keyboard shortcuts too. Mainly for ==highlight==
- Moving selected text up/downwards.
- Un/Collapse the blocks (lists, headings etc )
- Many VSCode ones
It should be implemented as VSCode way cmd+1, cmd+2 etc.
i would love to be able to jump to the previous day’s note and the next days note from any given days note
Another styling/formatting shortcut:
- convert selection to ordered and unordered list
lots of show-hide or ‘go to’ commands are needed. Toggle left-sidebar/right-sidebar is useful, but more specific commands are needed for
- go to backlinks
- go to tags
It seems like the items in the left sidebar have this, but right do not.
edit: also missing “go to file explorer”.
You can do duct tape together a highlight shortcut with Keyboard Maestro:
%CurrentClipboard%
is just a variable for the clipboard, so inserting ==%CurrentClipboard%==
is just pasting whatever you just copied… but with the ==
's added to each side.
According to a discussion here I can probably remove the pause, actually.
edit: obviously, this doesn’t remove the highlight, but you could probably actually cobble that together with keyboard maestro too with an if/then search for the ==
s within the selection or on each side of the selection. If there, remove them.
Not sure if this has been mentioned already - but cotemaxime from Discord mentioned that I should post as a feature request here. There should be a shortcut hotkey customization for creating a link, currently it is bound to Cmd+K but would like to use that hotkey for a diff. functionality.
Given that Maestro is MacOS only, I created a shortcut with Autohotkey:
Just create a new script with the following:
; Markdown Highlight
^+e::
Send,^c
ClipWait
Send, ==^v==
Return
; Syntax
; ^ = CTRL
; ! = ALT
; + = SHIFT
; # = WIN
; :: = run when pressed keys together
Works without delays even for large selections of text, only issue is that to revert styling you have to hit CTRL+Z thrice as the script can’t apply the styling in one action (instead pastes “==”, then the selected text, then “==” again).