Roam Research keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 66 Roam Research 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All shortcuts
- Slash — Bring up a menu of many core functions
- Ctrl+U — Search the database
- Ctrl+Enter — Jump back to page after search
- Ctrl+F — Search on the current page
- Shift+Enter — Open a new page created in search in the sidebar
- Ctrl+Shift+D — Jump to the Daily Notes page
- Ctrl+B — Toggle brackets
- Tab — Indent block
- Shift+Tab — Un-indent block
- Ctrl+Shift+ArrowUp — Move block up
- Ctrl+Shift+ArrowDown — Move block down
- Enter — Create a new block, bullet point
- Ctrl+Enter — Create a TODO checkbox
- Shift+Enter — Create a new line inside of a block
- Ctrl+Z — Undo
- Ctrl+Shift+Z — Redo
- Ctrl+Period — Zoom in, show only the current block enlarged
- Ctrl+O — Follow link under cursor, when editing a block
- Ctrl+Shift+O — Open a link under cursor in the sidebar
- Ctrl+ArrowUp — Collapse all child blocks under the current block
- Ctrl+ArrowDown — Expand all child blocks under the current block
- Shift+ArrowUp — Select the block above where the cursor is placed
- Shift+ArrowDown — Select the block below where the cursor is placed
- Ctrl+Shift+A — Select all blocks
- Ctrl+A — Jump to the beginning of the current block
- Ctrl+E — Jump to the end of the current block
- Ctrl+F — Move one character to the right
- Ctrl+B — Move one character to the left
- Ctrl+T — Swap all characters on either side of the cursor
- Ctrl+X — Show avatar of the last user to edit the block
- Ctrl+Shift+Period — Cycle versions to the right
- Ctrl+Period — Expand all versions, all versions will appear in their own blocks
- Ctrl+Alt+0 — Reset heading, or set to paragraph
- Ctrl+Enter — Toggle TODO or DONE
- Ctrl+B — Bold
- Ctrl+I — Italic
- Ctrl+K — Create an HTML link
- Ctrl+Y — Strike-through
- Ctrl+H — Highlight
- Backquote — Create an inline block of code
- Ctrl+J — Move down in autocomplete and search dropdowns
- ArrowUp — Move up in autocomplete and search dropdowns
- Ctrl+Alt+1 — Heading level 1 (Shortcut)
- Ctrl+Alt+2 — Heading level 2 (Shortcut)
- Ctrl+Alt+3 — Heading level 3 (Shortcut)
- ArrowDown — Move cursor to next block
- Alt+D — Go to Daily Notes page
- Alt+ArrowRight — Zoom in to current block
- Alt+ArrowLeft — Zoom out to parent block
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter — Go to last block on page (when nothing is selected)
- Ctrl+Home — Jump to start of block
- Ctrl+End — Jump to end of block
- ArrowRight — Move cursor forward
- ArrowLeft — Move cursor backward
- Shift+ArrowUp — Select current block and children
- Ctrl+Shift+C — Copy block reference(s) of selected block(s)
- Ctrl+Shift+9 — Open block search
- Ctrl+Backslash — Toggle left sidebar visibility
- Ctrl+Slash — Toggle right sidebar visibility
- Ctrl+C — Toggle display of double brackets
- Ctrl+C — Toggle display of all inline mentions
- Ctrl+C — Toggle all users' bullet colors
- Ctrl+C — Toggle other users' bullet colors
- Ctrl+C — Toggle block live preview
- Ctrl+C — Cycle namespace display
- Shift+Alt+H — Toggle help popup visibility
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