Use the page picker to find a page by name or create one. For searching inside notes, use Search. The published documentation is read-only: use your own space for the creation steps below.

The page picker has two main functions:

1. Enables quick navigation between Page
2. Enables creation of new pages
   • Based on the entered name
   • Based on linked to, but not yet created page names

The page picker can be invoked by clicking the 📔 icon in the top bar, or by pressing Cmd-k on Mac, or Ctrl-k on Windows/Linux.

The main input is the filter phrase and can be used to narrow down the list of page results.

If the filter phrase contains #tags the results will be filtered based on matching those tags.

If the filter phrase starts with $, the picker switches to navigating anchors instead of pages: everything after the $ filters anchor names from across your Space, and each result shows a formatted snippet of the anchored content along with the host page it lives on. Deleting the $ returns you to the page list. This works from any of the pickers.

warning Warning Tool pages (every page under Library/), even though technically regular pages, will not appear in the page picker. To navigate to them, use the Tool Page Picker instead or find them in the File Tree.

Pressing the Enter key will open/create the selected page. Pressing Shift-Enter will open or create (if it doesn’t already exist) the page exactly matching the filter phrase. In anchor and tag mode there is nothing to create, so it does nothing there.

Therefore, if you intend to create a new page, simply type the name of the new page and hit Shift-Enter.

Result ordering

When no filter phrase is entered, pages are ordered by their latest activity in descending order. For each page, the picker uses whichever is newer: the last time it was opened on this client or its last modified date.

When entering a filter phrase, the best matches should appear closer to the top, however the second option will always be an option to create a new page with exactly the page name entered as the filter phrase.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Enter: selects the highlighted page from the list and navigate there. If that page is marked with a Create chip it will create that page.
• Shift-Enter: navigate to the page entered in as the filter phrase, creating it if it doesn’t already exist. Does nothing in anchor or tag mode, where there is nothing to create.
• Space: with an empty filter phrase will attempt to do something intelligent:
  • If the currently opened page is nested in a folder, it will auto complete the current folder name in its place.
  • If the currently opened page name starts with an emoji, it will complete that emoji in its place.
  • Otherwise, it will complete the full page name of the currently open page.
• Typing $ at the start of the filter phrase switches to anchor navigation
• ArrowUp/ArrowDown: move up and down the highlighted page list
• PageUp/PageDown: move up and down 5 entries in the page list in one go
• Home: moves to the start of the list
• End: moves to the end of the list
• Escape: clears the filter phrase. On an empty phrase it closes the page picker
• Typing ^ when the filter phrase is empty switches to the Tool Pages segment (Tool Page Picker). Tab/Shift-Tab step through all four segments

Mouse/touch operation

You can scroll and select an item from the list by clicking with the mouse, as well as close the page picker by clicking outside of it.