Keyboard Shortcuts for Bullet Points in Notes Editor

james.dunn@yale.edu · June 19, 2017

Dear Zotero Community,

Is there anyway to assign Keyboard Shortcuts to toggle a bullet-point list on and off, as well as Indent and Outdent the bullets? This would make a massive difference to my productivity, life, and over all well-being!

Jamie

octavabasso · July 28, 2017

I hope I'm not hijacking this, but I want to broaden this question. Is there a way in 5.0 to edit/set keyboard shortcuts for notes editor, including toggling bullet points as Jamie is asking?

One feature that was removed in the transition from v4 to v5 is the ability to change the note style from Paragraph to various headers. In v4, you could hit CTRL+1 (or 2, 3, etc) to change the style to the corresponding header. That feature is now gone. Is there a way to change settings and bring it back?

Gracile · July 29, 2017

One feature that was removed in the transition from v4 to v5 is the ability to change the note style from Paragraph to various headers. In v4, you could hit CTRL+1 (or 2, 3, etc) to change the style to the corresponding header. That feature is now gone.

This is still possible in 5.0, cf. https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/keyboard_shortcuts#notes
Windows/Linux: Shift+Alt+1/6 ; Mac: Ctrl+Alt+1/6

james.dunn@yale.edu · July 4, 2019

Dear all,

Just discovered (on a mac at least) that using the 'Tab' key now further indents bullets. 'Shift + Tab' brings them the other way. Hooray! Several years saved over the course of a lifetime, I'm sure!

All best,

Jamie

mjbaldwin · September 12, 2020

I too am looking for this functionality!

Zotero uses TinyMCE which means it currently comes with the keyboard shortcuts defined here:

https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/advanced/keyboard-shortcuts/

However TinyMCE also has the ability for Zotero to add custom shortcuts:

https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/api/tinymce/tinymce.shortcuts/

I would personally also find shortcuts for bulleted and numbered lists super useful. In an ideal world for me, they'd be the same as in Google Docs (Cmd+Shift+7/8), but maybe whatever shortcut Word uses could be a parallel shortcut?