Find, outline, and writing modes

Find text in this document

Press Cmd+F and start typing. Find works on the document in front of you — it does not look inside your other files, and it does not change text, it only takes you to it.

Matches light up as you type — yellow for all of them, orange for the one you are on — and the counter beside the field keeps score: 3 of 17, or No matches. Press Return to jump to the next match; past the last one it wraps back to the first. Esc closes the bar and puts you back in the text.

Action	Shortcut
Find	Cmd+F
Next match	Cmd+G or Return
Previous match	Shift+Cmd+G or Shift+Return
Search for the selected text	Cmd+E
Close the find bar	Esc

Select a word before pressing Cmd+F and Inkstone searches for it straight away. Capitals are ignored; everything else matches exactly what you typed.

To find a file rather than text inside one, press Cmd+P — Quick Open and the start page’s search field match file names. See [[tabs-panes-and-quick-open|Tabs, panes, and Quick Open]].

Jump to a heading

Click the outline button at the right end of the toolbar — the icon of short indented lines, the one whose tooltip reads Outline. A panel opens beside the editor listing every heading in the document, indented by level. Click one to scroll there.

The highlighted row is whichever heading you have scrolled to. To have it follow your cursor as you type instead, turn on Outline follows cursor in Settings › General.

You can also link from one part of the document to another. Write the heading after a #, in lower case, with spaces as dashes and punctuation dropped:

See [the setup notes](#setup-notes) below.

Clicking that scrolls to ## Setup Notes rather than opening anything.

Write with fewer distractions

Action	Shortcut
Focus Mode — dim everything but what you’re writing	Shift+Cmd+D
Typewriter Mode — hold your line at the middle of the screen	Shift+Cmd+T

Press Shift+Cmd+D and everything but the paragraph you are in goes faint. With the cursor inside a list, the whole list stays bright.

Press Shift+Cmd+T and the page scrolls as you type, holding the line you are writing at the vertical middle of the pane — including the first and last lines of the document.

Both are in the View menu and the toolbar’s ellipsis (…) menu, both apply to every open document, and both switch off when you quit Inkstone. Press the same shortcut again to switch one off.

Show the file you’re editing in the sidebar

Action	Shortcut
Show or hide the sidebar	Shift+Cmd+L
Reveal in Sidebar	Opt+Cmd+\

Press Opt+Cmd+\ and the sidebar opens, expands the folders down to the document you are editing, selects it, and hands the arrow keys to the sidebar so you can keep moving without the mouse. Reveal in Sidebar is in the toolbar’s ellipsis (…) menu too, for any document you have saved — save a new one first and it works there as well.

Word count, block type, and task progress

Along the bottom of the editor:

• The name of the block you’re in — Paragraph, Heading 2, Bullet List, and so on. It is a menu: pick another entry to turn the block into that. To hide it, turn off Block type picker in status bar in Settings › General › Editing.
• Word, character and line counts. Characters leave out spaces.
• Task progress, a checkmark with 3/8. It appears once the document has a task in it.

Hide the tasks you’ve finished

Click the task counter to hide every checked item. Nothing is deleted — click the counter again and they come straight back.

- [x] Book the room
- [ ] Send the agenda
- [ ] Print the handouts

Only the two unchecked lines stay on screen; the checked one is still in the document. Hiding applies to every open document, and everything is showing again the next time you launch Inkstone.