Editing & Markdown

Every note is plain Markdown under the hood — what you type is what gets saved to disk, rendered live as you go instead of shown as raw symbols.

Markdown syntax

Headings that fold

Every heading can collapse the section beneath it — handy once a note gets long.

• Option+Z — collapse or expand the section your cursor is in
• Shift+Option+Z — expand every section in the note, or collapse everything if it’s already fully expanded

Folding is purely visual and fully undo-safe: delete a collapsed heading and everything hidden underneath it goes with it, but Cmd+Z brings it all back exactly as it was.

Lists and tasks

Turn the current line into a list — or cycle it to a different kind — with Cmd+L (forward) and Shift+Cmd+L (backward):

none → checkbox → numbered → bullet → none

Tables

Insert one with the /table slash command (below), then:

• Option+Enter — add a row
• Shift+Option+Enter — add a column
• Delete / Backspace — deletes the whole table, but only when your cursor is inside an empty one

Tables are resizable by dragging column borders.

Images

Paste or drop an image straight into a note. It’s saved as a real file in an images folder next to the note — not embedded as a data blob — so your vault stays a normal, inspectable folder on disk.

Links and wikilinks

Regular Markdown links ([text](url)) work as you’d expect for external URLs. For linking one note to another, use a wikilink ([[Note Name]]) instead — see Linking Notes for autocomplete, aliases, and backlinks.

Slash commands

Hit / anywhere in a note to insert something without leaving the keyboard:

• /time — insert the current time
• /date — insert the current date (format is configurable in settings)
• /table — insert a table; type a size like 4x7 (rows × columns) and it’s remembered as your default for next time

Custom slash commands work like personal templates that live right inside your vault:

1. Type /, then a name for your command (use - or _ between words), and hit Tab to open its editor.
2. Write whatever Markdown you want — a meeting template, a daily-note format, a set of links you paste in often.
3. To use it later: /, the name, then Enter or Space.

Use the arrow keys to move through any autocomplete menu, for slash commands or otherwise.