Jump to a note by name
When you already know which note you want, the quick switcher is the fastest way to get to it. Open it, type a few letters of the title, and press Enter.
The shortcut differs between the two apps, because each one is working around a key the platform had already claimed:
- Desktop: Cmd/Ctrl+T. It is also in the File menu, as Quick Switcher. Cmd/Ctrl+O opens a file from disk here, the same as it does in most desktop apps.
- Web: Cmd/Ctrl+O. Your browser owns Cmd/Ctrl+T for opening a new tab and will not hand it over.
Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts lists every shortcut in the app.
The quick switcher is available in the web app and the desktop app.
Typing a title
You do not have to type the title exactly, or even continuously. The letters you type are matched in order, so qbr finds Quarterly Budget Review without you typing the words in full. Titles that contain what you typed as a run of letters are ranked above ones that merely contain the letters scattered through, so the closest match is usually the first one.
Each result shows the folder the note is in underneath the title, which is what tells two similarly named notes apart.
Use the up and down arrows to move through the list, Enter to open the highlighted note, and Escape to close without opening anything.
How it differs from search
The quick switcher looks at note titles only, and it covers every note you have, in every workspace. That is the opposite of the Search tab, which reads the full text of your notes and stays inside the workspace you are in unless you tell it otherwise.
So the two answer different questions:
- “Open the note called something like this.” Quick switcher.
- “Which of my notes mention this?” Search.
If you cannot remember a note’s title but you remember something it says, search is the one you want.