Formatting
The format bar sits above the page (View ▸ Hide/Show Format Bar). It works on rich text pages and on the formatted view of Markdown Pages. On pages it can't format — plain text, attachments, locked pages — it stays in place but grays out, so the window never reshuffles as you move between pages.
The controls, left to right
- Paragraph style — Body, Heading 1–3. Follows your cursor, so it always shows what you're in. In Markdown pages, headings round-trip to
#syntax. - Font and size — also follow the cursor. The document default lives in Settings ▸ Editing.
- B / I / U / S —
⌘B,⌘I,⌘U, and strikethrough. - Text color and highlight color — ink and highlighter.
- Alignment, bulleted / numbered lists, outdent / indent (
⌥⌘[/⌥⌘]). - Spacing — line spacing for the selected paragraphs.
Checkboxes
Format ▸ Make Checkbox Item turns the line into a clickable checkbox item.
Checked items dim. Pair with Plugin ▸ Strike Out and Move to Bottom (⌃⌘⌫) for a
very satisfying done-with-this gesture.
Tables
Format ▸ Table… inserts a table; Tab and ⇧Tab move between
cells, and Tab in the last cell adds a row.
Images
Paste or drag images straight into a page. Right-click ▸ Image Size scales to 25 / 50 / 75 / 100% of the page width. Double-click an image to edit it in your image editor (saves flow back into the page automatically); option-double-click saves it out as a file. See External Editors.
Sketch
⇧⌘K opens a drawing canvas — pencil colors, four nib sizes — and Insert drops
the sketch into the page as an image. Double-click a sketch to reopen the canvas
with your strokes intact and keep drawing.
Plain-text niceties
Plugin ▸ Alphabetize sorts the selected paragraphs, list items, or lines.
Edit ▸ Paste and Match Style (⌥⇧⌘V) pastes without funky formatting.