Scrivener

Enjoy this cheat sheet at its fullest within Dash, the macOS documentation browser.

View

CMD+1

Document view

CMD+2

Corkboard view

CMD+3

Outline view

CMD+OPTION+F

Toggle view mode

Toggle between normal view and focused view.

CMD+OPTION+I

Toggle inspector

CMD+OPTION+B

Toggle binder

CMD+SHIFT+R

Hide format bar

CMD+OPTION+SHIFT+H

Project keywords

Toggle project keywords.

CMD+OPTION+SHIFT+P

Page view

Toggle page view.

CMD+OPTION+P

Project notes

Open project notes.

CMD+SHIFT+Enter

Scratch pad

Short cut works also outside Scrivener. So you can quickly take some notes without waiting for Scrivener to start.

Navigation

CMD+OPTION+Arrow Up

Previous item

Go to previous binder item

CMD+OPTION+Arrow Down

Next item

Go to next binder item

CMD+CTRL+R

Enclosing group

Go to enclosing group

CMD+OPTION+R

Reveal in binder

Select edited text in binder. Especially handy if binder window is closed.

CTRL+Tab

Switch focus

Switch between binder and editor.

CMD+CTRL+T

Typewriter mode

Toggle typewriter scrolling mode.

Searching

CMD+F

Find

CMD+G

Find next

CMD+SHIFT+G

Find previous

CMD+E

Find selection

Use selection for find.

Snapshots

CMD+5

Snapshot

Take a new snapshot.

CMD+SHIFT+5

Titled snapshot

Take snapshot with title.

Review

CMD+SHIFT+*

Comment

Add a comment.

CMD+CTRL+8

Footnote

Add a footnote.

CMD+SHIFT+H

Highlight

Highlight selected text.

Structuring Text

CMD+CTRL+Arrow Right

Group text

Make selected text(s) children of text or folder above.

CMD+CTRL+Arrow Left

Ungroup text

Bring selected text(s) on same hierarchy level as their current parent.

CMD+SHIFT+M

Merge texts

Merge selected texts into a single document.

CMD+OPTION+K

Split at selection

Split the text at selection and create a new text with the part below the split.

CMD+OPTION+SHIFT+K

Split with selection as title

Like Split at selection, but sets the selected text as title of the newly created split.

Notes