2022/08/19

Essential Evernote Shortcuts to Boost Your Productivity

For all the work you’ll do with Evernote, there’s a keyboard shortcut that can help you do it faster. Productivity hacks, both big and small, can make all the difference when it comes to getting a project completed. Keyboard shortcuts are extremely useful when you’re working away in Evernote.

Here’s the ultimate list of Evernote shortcuts to create, organize, and customize your content, whether you’re using a Mac desktop, Windows desktop, iPad, or Chromebook.

Evernote for Mac Desktop

Action	Shortcut
Open Evernote Helper (Quick Note)	Ctrl ⌘ N
New Note Window	Ctrl ⌥ ⌘ N
Paste to Evernote	Ctrl ⌘ V
Capture screen	Ctrl ⌘ Delete
Search in Evernote	Ctrl ⌘ E

Power tip: You can also open and close the keyboard shortcut menu from the Help menu or use the shortcut Cmd + / (Mac) or Ctrl + / (Windows).

Shortcuts for navigating Evernote on a Mac

Action	Shortcut
New Note	⌘ N
New Notebook	⇧ ⌘ N
Close active note window	⌘ W
Print	⌘ P
Show/Hide Navigation Menu	⌥ ⌘ S
Notes	⌥ ⌘ 1
Notebooks	⌥ ⌘ 2
Tags	⌥ ⌘ 3
Quickly switch to note, notebook, tag, or search	⌘ J
Select Note List	⌘ \
Back	⌘ [
Forward	⌘ ]
Enter Full Screen	Ctrl ⌘ F
Go to Shortcuts 1-9	⌘ 1-9
Hide Evernote	⌘ H
Quit Evernote	⌘ Q
Minimize	⌘ M
Zoom in	⌘ +
Zoom out	⌘ –
Reset zoom	⌘ 0

Simple shortcuts to remember

Action	Shortcut
Print	⌘ P
Show/Hide Navigation Menu	⌥ ⌘ S
Notes	⌥ ⌘ 1
Notebooks	⌥ ⌘ 2
Tags	⌥ ⌘ 3
Quickly switch to note, notebook, tag, or search	⌘ J
Select Note List	⌘ \
Back	⌘ [
Forward	⌘ ]
Enter Full Screen	Ctrl ⌘ F
Go to Shortcuts 1-9	⌘ 1-9
Hide Evernote	⌘ H
Quit Evernote	⌘ Q
Minimize	⌘ M
Zoom in	⌘ +
Zoom out	⌘ –
Reset zoom	⌘ 0

Expert tip: Editor-related shortcuts, such as copy (Cmd/Ctrl + C) and paste (Cmd/Ctrl + V), and text formatting shortcuts, such as bold (Cmd/Ctrl + B), are used by many different apps and are therefore not editable.

Customers using Evernote Free can customize global keyboard shortcuts. If you have a Personal, Professional, or Teams subscription, you can customize application-wide keyboard shortcuts as well.

Shortcuts for editing a note

Action	Shortcut
Undo	⌘ Z
Redo	⇧ ⌘ Z
Cut	⌘ X
Copy	⌘ C
Paste	⌘ V
Paste and Match Style	⇧ ⌘ V
Select All	⌘ A
Encrypt Selected Text	⇧ ⌘ X
Search Notes	⌥ ⌘ F
Find Within Note	⌘ F
Find Next	⌘ G
Find Previous	⇧ ⌘ G
Start Dictation	fn fn
Emoji & Symbols	Ctrl ⌘ Space
Edit Tags	⌘ ‘
Show/Hide Note Info	⇧ ⌘ I
Copy Internal Note Link	Ctrl ⌥ ⌘ C
Move To Notebook	Ctrl ⌘ M
Merge Notes	⇧ ⌘ M
Align Left	⌥ ⌘ {
Center	⌥ ⌘ +
Align Right	⌥ ⌘ }
Justify	⌥ ⌘ –
Increase Indent Level	⇧ ⌘ ]
Decrease Indent Level	⇧ ⌘ [
Toggle Bulleted List	⇧ ⌘ U
Toggle Numbered List	⇧ ⌘ O
Toggle Checklist	⇧ ⌘ C
Increase List Level	Tab
Decrease List Level	⇧ Tab
Add Link	⌘ K
Edit Link	⌘ K
Remove Link	⇧ ⌘ K
Bold	⌘ B
Italic	⌘ I
Underline	⌘ U
Strikethrough	Ctrl ⌘ K
Highlight	Ctrl ⌘ H
Superscript	Ctrl ⌘ +
Subscript	Ctrl ⌘ –
Insert Divider	⇧ ⌘ H
Insert Date	⇧ ⌘ D
Insert Time	⌥ ⇧ ⌘ D
Simplify Formatting	⇧ ⌘ F

Evernote for Windows Desktop

Action	Shortcut
Open Evernote Helper	Alt + Ctrl + H
New note window	Ctrl + Alt + N
Search in Evernote	Win + Shift + F
Capture screen	Alt + Ctrl + S
Paste to Evernote	Ctrl + Alt + V

Shortcuts for navigating Evernote on Windows

Action	Shortcut
New Note	Ctrl + N
Zoom in	Ctrl + +
Zoom out	Ctrl + –
Reset zoom	Ctrl + 0
Full screen	F11
Minimize	Ctrl + M
Quickly switch to note, notebook, tag, or search	Ctrl + Q
Jump to search bar	Ctrl + Alt + F
Move note to notebook	Ctrl + Shift + M
Show All Notes list	Ctrl + Alt + 1
Show Notebooks list	Ctrl + Alt + 2
Show Tags list	Ctrl + Alt + 3
Jump to shortcuts 1-9	Ctrl + 1-9
Set focus to note list	Ctrl + Alt + \
Move back	Ctrl + [
Move forward	Ctrl + ]
Print	Ctrl + P
Show/Hide Navigation Menu	F10
Rename selected notebook, note, tag, or saved search	F2
Set focus to the tag field of the active note	F3
Display note info	Ctrl + Shift + I
Hide Evernote	Ctrl + H
Quit Evernote	Ctrl + Q

Shortcuts for editing your notes in Evernote

Action	Shortcut
Undo	Ctrl + Z
Redo	Ctrl + Y
Cut	Ctrl + X
Copy	Ctrl + C
Paste	Ctrl + V
Paste and match style	Ctrl + Shift + V
Delete	Backspace
Select All	Ctrl + A
Find Within Note	Ctrl + F
Find Next	Ctrl + G
Find Previous	Ctrl + Shift + G
Replace Within Note	Ctrl + H
Align Left	Ctrl + L
Align Center	Ctrl + E
Align Right	Ctrl + J
Justify	Ctrl + Q
Increase Indentation	Ctrl + M
Decrease Indentation	Ctrl + Shift + M
Increase Font Size	Ctrl + Shift + .
Decrease Font Size	Ctrl + Shift + ,
Make selected text superscript	Ctrl + Shift + Up arrow
Make selected text subscript	Ctrl + Shift + Down arrow
Bulleted List	Ctrl + Shift + B
Numbered List	Ctrl + Shift + O
Checklist	Ctrl + Shift + C
Bold	Ctrl + B
Italic	Ctrl + I
Underline	Ctrl + U
Strikethrough	Ctrl + T
Highlight	Ctrl + Shift + H
Insert Divider	Ctrl + Shift + –
Add Hyperlink	Ctrl + K
Edit Hyperlink	Ctrl + K
Remove Hyperlink	Ctrl + Shift + K
Encrypt Selected Text	Ctrl + Shift + X
Simplify Formatting	Ctrl + Space
Insert date	Alt + Shift + D
Insert time	Ctrl + Shift + D
Insert row below	Tab at end of table

Shortcuts for toggling between notes

These shortcuts will work when the note list has focus, and are only available on Windows.

Action	Shortcut
Go to to previous note	Up arrow
Go to next note	Down arrow
Scroll note list up one page	Page Up
Scroll note list down one page	Page Down
Move to Trash	Ctrl + Delete
Close active note window	Ctrl + W
Set focus in the note editor of the selected note	Enter
Copy internal link to the clipboard	Ctrl + Alt + L

Keyboard Shortcuts for Chromebook & iPad

Action	Shortcut (Chromebook / iPad)
Create new note	Ctrl + Alt + N / ⌘ + N
Jump to search bar	Ctrl + Alt + F / Ctrl + ⌘ + E
Add a task	Ctrl + Alt + T / ⌘ + T
Show all notes list	Ctrl + Alt +1 / ⌘ + Option +1
Move back (as if taping back button)	Ctrl + [ / ⌘ + [

Note editor Shortcuts (only applies to note editor)

Action	Shortcut (Chromebook / iPad)
Bold	Ctrl + B / ⌘ + B
Italic	Ctrl + I / ⌘ + I
Underline	Ctrl + U / ⌘ + U
Strikethrough	Ctrl + T / Ctrl + ⌘ + K
Highlight	Ctrl + Shift + H / ⌘ + Ctrl + H
Bulleted List	Ctrl + Shift + B / ⌘ + Shift + U
Numbered List	Ctrl + Shift + O / ⌘ + Shift + O
Checklist	Ctrl + Shift + C / ⌘ + Shift + C
Undo	Ctrl + Z / ⌘ + Z
Redo	Ctrl + Y / ⌘ + Y
Increase indent	Ctrl + M / Shift + ⌘ + ]
Decrease indent	Ctrl + Shift + M” / Shift + ⌘ + [

Preferences/Settings keyboard shortcut

A new keyboard shortcut is available for opening (and closing) the preferences and settings menu: Cmd + on Mac or Ctrl + on Windows and Linux. *Desktop only

Power tip: If you connect an external keyboard to an iOS device, you can also use keyboard shortcuts! Check out this article for more information.

Originally published on January 12, 2015. Updated on August 19, 2022.