Keyboard Shortcuts
Azynote is built to be driven from the keyboard during a meeting, when reaching for the mouse costs you a sentence. These are the shortcuts worth learning, grouped by where you are when you use them.
Everything here is also in the menu bar, so you never have to remember a shortcut to find the action.
Moving around the app
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
Ctrl 1 to Ctrl 5 | Home, Timeline, Tasks, Subjects, Calendar |
Cmd N | New session |
Cmd Shift K | Quick Capture |
Cmd T | New task |
Cmd O | Open subject |
Cmd R | Refresh the current view |
Ctrl Tab | Switch between light and dark |
Ctrl M | Enter or leave the mini player |
Ctrl H | Enter or leave stealth mode, which hides the chrome for screen sharing |
Cmd Shift N | New window |
Cmd W | Close window |
Cmd Shift W | Minimize all windows |
Two of these moved recently, and both for the same reason. The app used to claim Shift Tab and Cmd 1 through Cmd 5 globally, ahead of every text field, so neither could ever reach the editor underneath. Shift Tab now outdents and the theme toggle is on Ctrl Tab. Navigation has moved to Ctrl 1 through Ctrl 5, which frees Cmd 1 through Cmd 4 for headings where they belong, next to bold and italic.
Running a session
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
Ctrl R | Start transcription, or pause and resume it |
Ctrl Shift R | Stop transcription |
Ctrl N | New note in the current session |
Cmd Alt Left / Cmd Alt Right | Previous or next note tab |
Writing in a note
Most of these are the ones you would guess. The list behaviour is the part worth reading.
Headings, bullets, checklists and quotes apply to the whole line, so you do not need to select anything first. Applying one replaces whatever the line already was, and applying the one it already has takes it off again. Quotes are independent, so a quoted list stays a quoted list.
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
Enter | Continue the list you are in, with the same marker and indentation |
Enter on an empty item | End the list and leave you on a blank line |
Tab / Shift Tab | Indent or outdent the current item, or every line you have selected |
Cmd 1 to Cmd 4 | Heading, H1 through H4. Press it again to remove it |
Cmd B / Cmd I | Bold, italic. Select the word and press again to remove it |
Cmd ` | Inline code |
Cmd Shift 8 | Bullet list |
Cmd Shift C | Checklist |
Cmd Shift . | Quote |
Cmd S | Save |
Cmd Z / Cmd Shift Z | Undo, redo |
Cmd F / Cmd Shift F | Find, find and replace |
Cmd C | Copy as rich text, so it keeps its formatting when pasted into Mail or Slack |
Cmd V | Paste. A pasted Markdown table has its columns aligned for you |
Cmd K | Ask AI about the selection |
Cmd Enter | Run the #! instruction your cursor is on |
Cmd Shift I | Import a meeting |
@ | Insert a snippet, a timestamp, or a link to one of the session's files |
Talking to the chat
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
Cmd Delete | Clear the conversation |
Good to know
- The menu bar is the source of truth. Every shortcut above appears next to its action in the menus, so if one ever stops matching this page, believe the menu.
- Shortcuts that write text only work while the editor has focus. Clicking into the media strip or the chat moves focus out of the note, and
Tabgoes back to meaning what it means everywhere else. Ctrl Ris ignored while a file is being transcribed in the background. Live transcription and batch transcription share the same on-device worker, so only one can run at a time.