Every essential Obsidian hotkey for notes, markdown, search, graph view, and the command palette. Defaults below match Obsidian Help for Command palette and editing shortcuts. Customize anything in Settings → Hotkeys. Compare with Notion shortcuts and VS Code shortcuts.
Obsidian splits keys into two layers. Hotkeys (command palette, quick switcher, graph, toggle reading view) are customizable. Editing shortcuts (copy, move by word, paste without formatting) come from the OS and cannot be changed in Settings → Hotkeys. This page lists both, with Windows/Linux and macOS tabs. Plugins can add more commands—search them from the palette even when they have no default combo.
Also see: Notion • VS Code • Linear • Raycast • OBS Studio
Press Ctrl+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd+P on macOS. Type a command name (fuzzy match works) and press Enter. Recently used commands appear at the top. If a hotkey is assigned, it shows next to the command.
Open Settings with Ctrl/Cmd+comma, then go to Hotkeys. Search the command, click plus, and press the combination you want. You can assign more than one combo per command. Copy, paste, and arrow-key editing shortcuts come from the OS and cannot be remapped inside Obsidian.
Ctrl/Cmd+P opens the command palette (run any command). Ctrl/Cmd+O opens Quick Switcher to jump to a note by name. They are the two shortcuts most people learn first.
Some overlap (bold, italic, find), but Obsidian’s power keys are different: command palette, wiki links [[ ]], graph view, and global search. See our Notion shortcuts page if you switch between both apps.
Another app or OS shortcut may own the combo, or the command has no default binding. Open Command palette and check whether a hotkey is listed. Non-US layouts still fire based on the physical keys you pressed when you set the hotkey.