Keyboard shortcuts
Every keyboard shortcut in the Tree Editor, exactly as listed in the app under Help, plus the annotation editor's keys. Print this page or keep it open in a second window while you learn Treetor.
Create / Open
- Ctrl+Enter — Create text item / Move selection down
- Ctrl+Shift+I — Create picture item from a file
- Ctrl+Shift+C — Capture and annotate a screen region as a picture item
- Ctrl+→ — Open/Create child tree
Browse
- ↑ / ↓ — Move selection (inside a multi-line item, move between its lines first)
- Ctrl+← — Go back to parent
Arrange / Move
- Ctrl+↑ — Move item up
- Ctrl+↓ — Move item down
- Alt+→ — Move item one level down (into above item)
- Alt+← — Move item one level up (to grandparent)
Work on Item
- Right-click an item — Show all actions available for that item
- Ctrl+D — Duplicate selected item and children
- Picture toolbar button — Add a managed picture item
- Double-click a picture — Open the annotation editor
- Ctrl+Delete — Delete selected item
- Ctrl+Insert — Merge children into above item
- Enter — New line within item text
- Ctrl+Z — Undo (your typing first, then tree changes such as move, indent or delete)
- Ctrl+Y — Redo (Ctrl+Shift+Z also works)
Formatting
- Ctrl+B — Bold the selection, or the word at the caret (press again to remove)
- Ctrl+I — Italic (press again to remove)
- Ctrl+E — Inline code (press again to remove)
- Ctrl+Shift+X — Strikethrough (press again to remove)
- Bold, italic, strike — Or type bold, *italic* or ~~strike~~ yourself
- Highlight — Wrap text in ==double equals== to mark it
- Inline code — Wrap text in backticks for a monospace run
- Code block — Put ``` on its own line before and after the code; add a language after the opening fence
- Math (LaTeX) — $x^2$ inline, or $$ on its own line before and after a display formula
- Tab — Insert two spaces inside a code block
- Enter — New line inside a code block keeps the indentation
- Esc — Show the selected item rendered; any key or click returns to editing
- Rendered item (click) — Edit its text; click a link inside it to open the link
Annotation editor
- Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y — undo / redo
- Del — delete the selected annotation
- Ctrl+A — select all annotations
- Ctrl+S — insert the annotated picture into the tree
- Esc — cancel a screen-region capture