Formatting

Every command writes ordinary Markdown into the note. You can always type the Markdown yourself instead.

Toolbar and shortcuts

Toolbar	Shortcut	Writes
Text style: Normal text, Heading 1 to Heading 6		# to ######
Bold	Ctrl+B	**text**
Italic	Ctrl+I	*text*
Strikethrough	Ctrl+Shift+X	~~text~~
Inline code		`text`
Link	Ctrl+K	[text]()
Bulleted list		-
Numbered list		1.
Task list		- [ ]
Quote		>
Insert table		See Tables

Commands without a shortcut also run from the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).

• Bold, Italic and Strikethrough wrap the selection. Use them again on wrapped text to remove the marks.
  • With the cursor inside a word and nothing selected, they wrap that word. Elsewhere with nothing selected, they insert the pair and put the cursor between.
  • With the cursor or selection inside bold, italic or struck-through text, the same command removes that whole mark.
  • A selection over several lines is wrapped line by line, leaving out list markers, quote marks and heading marks, so each line stays valid Markdown.
• Link with a selection writes [text]() with the cursor in the parentheses. Without one it writes []() with the cursor in the brackets. To link to a note, type [[ instead. See Links.
• Text style opens a list that shows each level in its own size, with the current one ticked. Click a level, or use the arrow keys and Enter. Esc closes the list. The level replaces the heading marks the line already has.

Lists

• Enter continues a list on the very next line with the next number, or with - [ ] in a task list, even when the list has blank lines between items. Enter on an empty item ends the list.
• Tab and Shift+Tab indent and outdent list items, when every selected line is a list item.
• Etonym does not renumber a numbered list for you.
• Nested items show one step further in for each level. The file keeps the spaces you typed.

Checkboxes

Click a checkbox to tick it, in editing or reading view. Only the one character changes and the cursor stays where it was. Ctrl+Enter ticks or clears the checkbox on the cursor line, or makes the line a task if it is not one. [x] and [X] both count as ticked.

Quotes, rules and code

• A quote shows with a bar on the left. Nested quotes work.
• A line with only ---, *** or ___ shows as a horizontal rule.
• A fenced code block gets a box and syntax colors for its language. All languages are built in, so no download is needed. A mermaid block becomes a diagram.

Paste

• An image is saved into the folder and linked. See Images.
• Cells from a spreadsheet, or a table copied from a web page, become a Markdown table.
• Formatted text from a web page, a document or an email becomes Markdown: headings, lists and tasks, links, bold, italic and strikethrough, inline code and code blocks, quotes and rules. Images, colors and fonts are left out. Only web and mail links stay links; other links keep just their text.
• Text and tables together go in as that text and those tables, in order.
• Text copied in Etonym pastes as its Markdown, exactly as written.
• Anything else is pasted as plain text. Inside a code block or the frontmatter, everything is pasted as plain text.

To paste only the text, without any formatting, press Ctrl+Shift+V or run Paste as plain text from the command palette.