Bear keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet

Printable cheat sheet covering all 61 Bear 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.

All shortcuts

  • Alt+Meta+S — Line separator
  • Meta+B — Bold
  • Meta+I — Italic
  • Meta+U — Underline
  • Shift+Meta+E — Strikethrough
  • Meta+K — Link
  • Meta+L — Unordered list
  • Shift+Meta+L — Ordered list
  • Shift+Meta+U — Quote
  • Meta+T — Todo
  • Alt+Meta+C — Inline code
  • Ctrl+Alt+C — Code block
  • Shift+Meta+M — Marker/Highlighter
  • Shift+Meta+V — Insert file
  • Shift+Meta+T — Toggle Todo
  • Alt+Meta+T — Mark Todo as completed
  • Ctrl+Meta+T — Mark Todo as incomplete
  • Meta+BracketRight — Shift line right
  • Meta+BracketLeft — Shift line left
  • Alt+Meta+ArrowUp — Move line up
  • Alt+Meta+ArrowDown — Move line down
  • Tab — Shift the list element right
  • Shift+Tab — Shift the list element left
  • Shift+Enter — End the list
  • Shift+Meta+7 — Long Form Date with time (11 Jul 2017, 10:43)
  • Shift+Meta+8 — Long Form Date (11 Jul 2017)
  • Shift+Meta+9 — Short Form Date (11/07/2017)
  • Shift+Meta+0 — Hours (11:43)
  • Meta+A — Select all
  • Meta+Enter — End editing
  • Meta+P — Print note
  • Meta+Minus — Zoom out
  • Meta+0 — Actual size
  • Shift+Meta+I — Toggle information panel
  • Meta+F — Search inside the current note
  • Alt+Meta+F — Search and replace inside the current note
  • Shift+Meta+F — Search inside the note list
  • Meta+N — Create a new note
  • Alt+Meta+N — Create a new note in a new window
  • Enter — Edit the selected note
  • Alt+Meta+F — Search in the current note list
  • Meta+Backspace — Delete selected note
  • Shift+Meta+R — Restore selected note
  • Shift+Meta+P — Pin/unpin selected note
  • Meta+A — Select all the notes in the list
  • Shift+Meta+Backspace — Empty Trash
  • Meta+1 — Select Notes in the sidebar
  • Meta+2 — Select Untagged in the sidebar
  • Meta+3 — Select ToDo in the sidebar
  • Meta+4 — Select Today in the sidebar
  • Meta+5 — Select Archive in the sidebar
  • Meta+6 — Select Trash in the sidebar
  • Alt+Meta+ArrowLeft — Navigate back in visualized notes history
  • Alt+Meta+ArrowRight — Navigate forward in visualized notes history
  • Shift+Meta+S — Export selected notes
  • Shift+Meta+O — Import notes
  • Ctrl+1 — Show sidebar, note list and editor
  • Ctrl+2 — Show note list and editor
  • Ctrl+3 — Show editor only
  • Ctrl+Meta+F — Enter fullscreen
  • Meta+Backslash — Open main window

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Related pages

  • Bear shortcuts
  • Bear cheat sheet
  • Learn Bear shortcuts
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