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Obsidian Keyboard Shortcuts

17 Jul 2026 — 1 min read

Obsidian has great support for keyboard shortcuts. Most commands can be invoked using shortcuts, and most of those can be customized.

Obsidian Community Plugins also introduce additional shortcuts that can be customized at will.

Here are my favorite ones.

Key shortcuts

Create a note: CTRL/Cmd + N
Create a note in a new tab: CTRL + Shift + N
Open the link you're hovering over in a new pane (in edit mode): CTRL/Cmd + Click
Quick switcher: CTRL/Cmd + O
Command palette: CTRL/Cmd + P
Toggle edit/preview mode: CTRL/Cmd + E
Force save the current note: CTRL/Cmd + S
Rename the current file: F2
Search in current file: CTRL + F
Global Search: CTRL/Cmd + Shift + F
Graph view: CTRL/Cmd + G
Open settings: CTRL/Cmd + ,
Add a property to the current note: CTRL/Cmd + ;

Undo, cut, copy, paste, bold, italicize: CTRL/Cmd + Z, X, C, V, B, I
Swap lines up/down: CTRL + Win + Up/Down
Add link: CTRL/Cmd + K
Toggle comment: CTRL/Cmd + /
Create multiple cursors: ALT (or OPTION)
- https://help.obsidian.md/multiple-cursors
Multiple selection: ALT-SHIFT (or OPTION-SHIFT) for multiple selection

To change the keyboard shortcuts, go to Settings > Hotkeys.

In that panel, you can change any shortcut or even set multiple ones for the each command.

I recommend defining shortcuts for the following: