Shift-tab from the start of the text box should move focus to title (#2)

[combs]

Once you’ve done the above, delete everything above this line.

Steps to reproduce

1. Start a new note
2. Type the title
3. Press Tab to leave the title, notice a typo
4. Press Shift+Tab to return to the title. Nothing happens

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Yes

Expected result

Since you can press Tab to leave the title field, you should be able to press Shift-Tab to return to the title field

Actual result

Nothing happens

Environment

All platforms

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Additional information

I am aware there is a different key combo to move to the title field. That is not the same thing
I am aware there is a 2023 post about this issue that was auto-closed

Thank you!

[ariehen]

Having Shift-Tab move you back into the inline-title may be a feature request, but I did notice that arrow-up won’t get your there unless the metadata editor (“Properties in document”) is in the note.

top: no Properties in document, Live preview
middle: note set to Source mode
bottom: Properties in document displayed

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Make up arrow key from line 1 move to note title

Now that we have inline titles it would be – I believe – expected to be able to navigate from the first line of the note to the title when pressing an up arrow key. The current behavior is that it stays stuck at line no. 1 as note title is treated (and still is, on the backend) a separate field.

[dawni]

Related to ariehen’s addition:

ArrowUp from the first line doesn't go to the inline title when no properties present

Steps to reproduce Open the sandbox vault With the cursor on the first line, press ArrowUp Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N] Yes. Expected result The cursor should be on the inline title. Actual result The cursor stayed on the first line. Environment SYSTEM INFO: Obsidian version: v1.10.6 Installer version: v1.10.6 Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.6.0: Wed Oct 15 21:15:50 PDT 2025; root:xnu-10063.141.1.707.11~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 23.6.0 Login status: logged…

Despite my optimism (in the linked bug report) about acclimating, I still miss being able to up-arrow into the tab title bar, which stopped working with or without Properties in document.

[ariehen]

Ah! Good find. I vaguely recall seeing that report at some point (now that I’ve re-read it).

[combs]

thanks yall! and just for completion’s sake, here’s the previous issue about this,

Shift-tab from the start of the text box should move focus to title

Use case or problem Start a new note Enter the title of the note Hit tab to type the note body Notice that you want to edit the title Hit shift+tab, expecting it to function opposite step 3 and move focus to the title Notice that it does not; it does nothing Proposed solution This process should end with focus on the title of the note: With focus on the note title, press the tab key; focus moves to the note body Hit shift+tab key Current workaround (optional) I currently have to move to the…

in which someone suggested ctrl+shift+t to move to the title, which doesn’t fit in the standard muscle-memory model (at least for me)