What keyboard shortcuts exist for Notes app is OS X?

I can do cmd-N to create a new note. What I'd like to learn how to do is:

  • get the cursor in the search field, then use up down arrows with enter to select the right note
  • it would be great to also cycle through notes with the keyboard, similar to cmd+shift+[ and cmd+shift+] in Chrome

How can I learn to do these things?


The app I use for this is CheatSheet since some shortcuts come from the system (screen shot, etc..), some come from third party apps, and some are from the app itself.

I count 51 keys active in Notes on my Mac, so I'm not going to list them all. Yours are probably different than mine, since I have third party apps that have services with default keys enabled.

The movement request is best served by Mouse Keys - which came from X11 days and has been chosen/implemented as Apple's accessibility solution for using a number pad instead of the mouse/trackpad for you to navigate to the search field.

  • https://www.apple.com/accessibility/osx/
  • http://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/

  • to get the cursor on the search bar you can press the 'Note List Search...' shortcut (cmd+option+f)
  • to focus on the Notes list, you can go to the search bar first by pressing cmd+option+f, and then press tab. That will bring your focus on the list, but i didnt figure out a way to bring the focus to the note from the notes list.