Keyboard Shortcuts

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Legible is built to be read with your hands on the keyboard. Press ? at any time to bring up this same list inside the app.

KeyAction
⌘ [Back
⌘ ]Forward
Previous note
Next note
bToggle the sidebar
tToggle the contents panel

Read

KeyAction
jScroll down
kScroll up
zZen mode
⌘ +Larger reading text
⌘ -Smaller reading text
⌘ 0Reset reading text size

Annotate

KeyAction
hHighlight the selected text
cComment on the selection (or toggle comment mode)
⇧ HHide or show all highlights

Select a passage and press h to drop a highlight without leaving your place — handy for marking up a page quickly. Press c instead to add a comment.

KeyAction
⌘ KSearch across every note
⌘ FFind in the current note

General

KeyAction
?Open this shortcut list
EscClose whatever is open

Single-key shortcuts (like j, z and h) are ignored while you are typing in a search box or a comment, so they never get in the way.