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

ActionShortcut
Open Evernote Helper (Quick Note)Ctrl ⌘ N
New Note WindowCtrl ⌥ ⌘ N
Paste to EvernoteCtrl ⌘ V
Capture screenCtrl ⌘ Delete
Search in EvernoteCtrl ⌘ 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 

ActionShortcut
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 ScreenCtrl ⌘ 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 

ActionShortcut
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 ScreenCtrl ⌘ 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

ActionShortcut
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 Dictationfn fn
Emoji & SymbolsCtrl ⌘ Space
Edit Tags⌘ ‘
Show/Hide Note Info⇧ ⌘ I
Copy Internal Note LinkCtrl ⌥ ⌘ C
Move To NotebookCtrl ⌘ 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 LevelTab
Decrease List Level⇧ Tab
Add Link⌘ K
Edit Link⌘ K
Remove Link⇧ ⌘ K
Bold⌘ B
Italic⌘ I
Underline⌘ U
StrikethroughCtrl ⌘ K
HighlightCtrl ⌘ H
SuperscriptCtrl ⌘ +
SubscriptCtrl ⌘ –
Insert Divider⇧ ⌘ H
Insert Date⇧ ⌘ D
Insert Time⌥ ⇧ ⌘ D
Simplify Formatting⇧ ⌘ F

Evernote for Windows Desktop

ActionShortcut
Open Evernote HelperAlt + Ctrl + H
New note windowCtrl + Alt + N
Search in EvernoteWin + Shift + F
Capture screenAlt + Ctrl + S
Paste to EvernoteCtrl + Alt + V

Shortcuts for navigating Evernote on Windows 

ActionShortcut
New NoteCtrl + N
Zoom inCtrl + +
Zoom outCtrl + –
Reset zoomCtrl + 0
Full screenF11
MinimizeCtrl + M
Quickly switch to note, notebook, tag, or searchCtrl + Q
Jump to search barCtrl + Alt + F
Move note to notebookCtrl + Shift + M
Show All Notes listCtrl + Alt + 1
Show Notebooks listCtrl + Alt + 2
Show Tags listCtrl + Alt + 3
Jump to shortcuts 1-9Ctrl + 1-9
Set focus to note listCtrl + Alt + \
Move backCtrl + [
Move forwardCtrl + ]
PrintCtrl + P
Show/Hide Navigation MenuF10
Rename selected notebook, note, tag, or saved searchF2
Set focus to the tag field of the active noteF3
Display note infoCtrl + Shift + I
Hide EvernoteCtrl + H
Quit EvernoteCtrl + Q

Shortcuts for editing your notes in Evernote 

ActionShortcut
UndoCtrl + Z
RedoCtrl + Y
CutCtrl + X
CopyCtrl + C
PasteCtrl + V
Paste and match styleCtrl + Shift + V
DeleteBackspace
Select AllCtrl + A
Find Within NoteCtrl + F
Find NextCtrl + G
Find PreviousCtrl + Shift + G
Replace Within NoteCtrl + H
Align LeftCtrl + L
Align CenterCtrl + E
Align RightCtrl + J
JustifyCtrl + Q
Increase IndentationCtrl + M
Decrease IndentationCtrl + Shift + M
Increase Font SizeCtrl + Shift + .
Decrease Font SizeCtrl + Shift + ,
Make selected text superscriptCtrl + Shift + Up arrow
Make selected text subscriptCtrl + Shift + Down arrow
Bulleted ListCtrl + Shift + B
Numbered ListCtrl + Shift + O
ChecklistCtrl + Shift + C
BoldCtrl + B
ItalicCtrl + I
UnderlineCtrl + U
StrikethroughCtrl + T
HighlightCtrl + Shift + H
Insert DividerCtrl + Shift + –
Add HyperlinkCtrl + K
Edit HyperlinkCtrl + K
Remove HyperlinkCtrl + Shift + K
Encrypt Selected TextCtrl + Shift + X
Simplify FormattingCtrl + Space
Insert dateAlt + Shift + D
Insert timeCtrl + Shift + D
Insert row belowTab 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. 

ActionShortcut
Go to to previous noteUp arrow
Go to next noteDown arrow
Scroll note list up one pagePage Up
Scroll note list down one pagePage Down
Move to TrashCtrl + Delete
Close active note windowCtrl + W
Set focus in the note editor of the selected noteEnter
Copy internal link to the clipboardCtrl + Alt + L

Keyboard Shortcuts for Chromebook & iPad

ActionShortcut (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)

ActionShortcut (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.