Keyboard shortcuts for howt.io
Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to speed up your workflow. howt.io offers a variety of shortcuts to make your life easier.
First and foremost, you can always toggle CTRL + K
to open and close the jump-to-modal from which you can navigate to any point or element of the app which a few keystrokes.
Beside that, most of the actions worth key-stroking can be applied on the editor .
These shortcuts work from everywhere in the app:
Action
Windows / Linux
macOS
Open / toggle jump-to-modal
Ctrl K
⌘ K
Toggle color mode (also works here on the website)
F9
F9
Here is a list of all the shortcuts you can use inside the editor :
Action
Windows / Linux
macOS
Open / toggle jump-to-modal
Ctrl K
⌘ K
Save current document
Ctrl S
⌘ S
Undo last action
Ctrl Z
⌘ Z
Clear undo history
Press Alt and click the undo button
Press ⌥ and click the undo button
Copy selected annotation
Ctrl C
⌘ C
Paste annotation
Ctrl V
⌘ V
Remove selected annotation
← Backspace or Del
⌫ Backspace or ⌦
Remove selected step (in sidebar)
← Backspace or Del
⌫ Backspace or ⌦
These shortcuts can be used when editing text, for example using paragraph step-items :
Action
Windows / Linux
macOS
Toggle bold
Ctrl B
⌘ B
Toggle italic
Ctrl I
⌘ I
Toggle underline
Ctrl U
⌘ U
Toggle strikethrough
Ctrl Shift S
⌘ Shift S
Toggle highlight
Ctrl Shift H
⌘ Shift H
Toggle code
Ctrl E
⌘ e
Apply normal text style
Ctrl Alt 0
⌘ Alt0
Apply heading style 1
Ctrl Alt 1
⌘ Alt1
Apply heading style 2
Ctrl Alt 2
⌘ Alt2
Apply heading style 3
Ctrl Alt 3
⌘ Alt3
Apply heading style 4
Ctrl Alt 4
⌘ Alt4
Apply heading style 5
Ctrl Alt 5
⌘ Alt5
Apply heading style 6
Ctrl Alt 6
⌘ Alt6
Ordered list
Ctrl Shift 7
⌘ Shift7
Blockquote
Ctrl Shift B
⌘ ShiftB
Center align
Ctrl Shift E
⌘ ShiftE
Subscript
Ctrl,
⌘,
Superscript
Ctrl.
⌘.
General text manipulation shortcuts can be used in the editor as well:
Action
Windows / Linux
macOS
Select all
Ctrl A
⌘ A
Extend selection one character to left
Shift ←
Shift ←
Extend selection one character to right
Shift →
Shift →
Extend selection one line up
Shift ↑
Shift ↑
Extend selection one line down
Shift ↓
Shift ↓
Extend selection to the beginning of the document
Ctrl Shift ↑
⌘ Shift↑
Extend selection to the end of the document
Ctrl Shift ↓
⌘ Shift↓
When working with images and annotations, these are your options:
Action
Windows / Linux
macOS
Cycle trough annotations type
A
A
Cycle backwards trough annotations
Shift A
Shift A
Select "select" annotation
V
V
Select line annotation
L
L
Select rectangle annotation
R
R
Select circle annotation
C
C
Select highlight annotation
H
H
Select sequence annotation
S
S
Select clipart annotation
P
P
Select text annotation
T
T
Move annotation by 1px
↑→↓←
↑→↓←
Move annotation by 10px
Shift↑→↓←
Shift↑→↓←
Move annotation by 100px
Ctrl↑→↓←
⌘↑→↓←
Rotate annotation by 15 degree
Shift while rotating
Shift while rotating
Keep scale when resizing annotation
Ctrl while resizing
⌘ while resizing
Move annotation one layer up
+ while selected
+ while selected
Move annotation one layer down
- while selected
- while selected
Updated 1 year ago
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