Roam Research Quick Dev Reference

A visual cheat-sheet for the 45 keyboard shortcuts found on Roam Research.

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

/ — 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

Shift (click) — Open link in sidebar

Ctrl B — Toggle brackets

Lists and Blocks

Tab — Indent block

Shift Tab — Un-indent block

Ctrl Shift Up — Move block up

Ctrl Shift Down — 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 . — Zoom in, show only the current block enlarged

Ctrl , — Zoom out, restores the normal view

Ctrl O — Follow link under cursor, when editing a block

Ctrl Shift O — Open a link under cursor in the sidebar

Ctrl Up — Collapse all child blocks under the current block

Ctrl Down — Expand all child blocks under the current block

Shift Up — Select the block above where the cursor is placed

Shift Down — 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 C Ctrl X — Show avatar of the last user to edit the block

Version Control

Ctrl , — Add a version

Ctrl Shift . — Cycle versions to the right

Ctrl Shift , — Cycle versions to the left

Ctrl . — Expand all versions, all versions will appear in their own blocks

Formatting

Ctrl Alt 1-3 — Toggle between heading styles

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

` — Create an inline block of code