1 Keyboard Shortcuts and Editor styling

Miguel Jacq edited this page 2025-12-12 18:43:44 -06:00

Table of Contents

• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Actions
• Styling
• Checkboxes
• Moving unchecked checkboxes from previous days

Keyboard Shortcuts

Bouquin supports various keyboard shortcuts:

Actions

• Ctrl+S: Save the notebook
• Ctrl+F: Find text on the current page
• Ctrl+Shift+H: Open the History dialog for a given date to view versions and diff/revert
• Ctrl+Shift+.: Open settings
• Ctrl+Shift+E: Export the notebook to different formats
• Ctrl+Shift+B: Backup the notebook to an encrypted database (that can be loaded by Bouquin again directly)
• Ctrl+Shift+P: Go to previous day
• Ctrl+Shift+N: Go to next day
• Ctrl+Shift+T: Go to today
• Ctrl+W: Close current tab
• Ctrl+Shift+S: Open Statistics
• Ctrl+Shift+D: Open this documentation page
• Ctrl+Shift+R: Report a bug
• Ctrl+Shift+L: Lock the screen immediately
• Ctrl+Shift+U: Unlock the screen
• Ctrl+Q: Quit the application

Styling

• Ctrl+B: Set selected text to bold
• Ctrl+I: Set selected text to italic
• Ctrl+-: Set selected text to strikethrough
• Ctrl+1: Set selected text to h1 (heading)
• Ctrl+2: Set selected text to h2 (heading)
• Ctrl+3: Set selected text to h3 (heading)
• Ctrl+.: Set selected text to normal size (paragraph)
• Ctrl+Shift+-: Decrease size of normal text
• Ctrl+Shift++: Increase size of normal text
• Ctrl+`: Set selected text to be in a <code> block

Checkboxes

It's possible to add checkboxes into the editor.

You can also start a line with the word TODO (in capitals) and it will automatically convert that word into a checkbox.

Moving unchecked checkboxes from previous days

Do you like to move any TODOs that were unfinished from yesterday to your list of today's TODOs?

There is an option for that in the settings. When turned on, any unchecked checkboxes in the last 7 day's notes will be automatically moved to the next weekday after the last day's unchecked TODO. This occurs on startup or on rollover of midnight.