The command menu

Press ⌘K or ⌘P to go anywhere, find any words, or do anything.

One box finds a page, an entity, a day or a block, and acts on the block you are in. On Windows, press Ctrl+K or Ctrl+P.

Open it

⌘K or ⌘P, anywhere. Press it again to close.
Search at the top of the sidebar.
On a phone: tap Search in the bottom bar or in the sidebar, or tap the screen with two fingers. See Search on a phone.

Note: with words selected in a block, ⌘K links them instead (as in Notion). ⌘P always opens the menu.

Find a page, an entity, a day or a block

The command menu, empty: the search box, the pages opened today, then Actions such as New page, Quick capture and Go to today; a preview of the first page at the right, and the keys at the foot — The command menu, empty.

Empty, the menu shows the pages you opened lately, under Today, Past week, Past 30 days and Earlier, then actions.
Type, and the results show as you type, in sections: days, pages, entities, blocks (the blocks whose words hold what you typed), and actions. Each section says how many it found. The section with the best match comes first.
In a section, the best match comes first: the name itself, then names that start with what you typed, then names with a word that starts with it, then names that hold it anywhere, then entities whose tag's name matches. The link ([[ and @), Move to and field pickers use the same order.
An entity is also found by its fields: words in a Text, Web link or Email field, and the name a Select, Multi-select, Select from tag or Select from query field shows. Its row names the field, such as “Author · Ursula K. Le Guin”, with your words marked.
Every page and entity whose name holds your words is found, however old it is. A long block shows from the word before your words.
Click a section's heading, or press Tab, to see only that section. Show all brings the rest back.
Type a day: today, tomorrow, fri, oct 15. It reads the same words as dates in blocks.

The command menu with “fri” typed: one day, Friday, October 16, under Days, with “only days” beside the heading, and its preview: nothing written on this day yet — Days read the same words as dates in blocks.

Beside the results, a preview shows the one you are on: where it is, who edited it and when, and its blocks, with your words marked.

Filters

Click the filter button at the end of the box. Each filter you pick shows in the box as a small chip, with × to take it off.

Filter	Shows	Or type
Kind	One section only: pages, entities, days, blocks or actions
Tag	Blocks and entities with any of the tags you pick	`#task`
In	A page, and what is under it	`in:`
When	Edited Today, in the Past week, Past 30 days or This year. Made, not edited goes by when it was made.	`after:` `before:`
Who wrote it	What a person or an agent last edited, or made	`by:`
Has a field	Entities with a value in that field	`has:`
Title only	Pages, entities and days, no blocks

Clear all takes every filter off.

Actions

Type > first to see only actions. When the caret is in a block, or blocks are selected, the first actions work on them:

Turn into each kind, with its ⌘⌥ key
Tag… (#), when blocks are selected: puts a tag on all of them, or takes one off them
Move to… another page (⌘⇧M)
Duplicate (⌘D)
Open as a page
Copy link, to the block
Delete the block, or Delete the blocks

Then, always:

Open or close every block on this page (⌘⌥↓ opens them, ⌘⌥↑ closes them)
New page (⌃⌥N)
Quick capture: write something down and send it to a day or a page. See Quick capture.
Go to today (⌃⇧D on a Mac)
Calendar
Op Log: every change, undo
Report a problem
Customize sidebar. See Customize the sidebar.
Getting started: brings back the checklist of first steps on today's page.
Trash
Make the sidebar small, Hide the sidebar or Show the sidebar (⌘\)
New tab (⌃⌥T)
Show the right panel or Hide the right panel (⌘⌥\), on a page
Show who wrote what or Hide who wrote what
Turn off themes and snippets, while a theme or a snippet is on, and Turn themes and snippets back on after. See Themes and snippets.
Sign in, when you are not signed in. It opens the same sign-in as Settings, Account. See If you already have an account.

Type part of an action's name to find it: move, head, trash, sign in. An action whose name starts with the words you typed comes before a page that matches as well.

On a phone, New page, Add to today, Go to today, Undo, Redo and Settings come first.

Keys in the menu

↑ ↓ move through the rows.
Enter opens the row, or runs it. ⌘Enter opens it in a new tab.
Tab steps to the next section.
⌘L copies a link to the row.
Esc, or a click outside, closes the menu and puts the caret back where it was.