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Getting around

Undra is a workspace, not a single document, so a little orientation goes a long way. This page covers the things that make moving around fast: the command palette, slash commands, and the panels around your editor.

Press Ctrl/Cmd K, start typing, and jump straight to any command or item.

The command palette

The command palette is the fastest way to do almost anything. Open it with Ctrl/Cmd + K (on Windows you can also use Ctrl + P) and start typing.

From there you can:

  • Run any command by name, from layout and navigation to sidebar actions.
  • Jump to an item by title, with an icon showing its type.
  • Open a folder in your workspace.

Your recently used commands show up first when you open it, so the things you do often are always a keystroke away.

Slash commands

Inside a note or a canvas text box, type / after a space to pull up quick inserts without leaving the keyboard. Built-in ones cover the things you reach for constantly:

  • /date, /time, /now for stamping the current date and time
  • /callout, /table, /code for structure
  • /wikilink, /embed for connecting to other items

You can also save your own command templates with variables like {{date}} or {{selection}}, and invoke them by slash too.

Slash is context-aware

Slash completion only triggers after a space, and it stays out of your way inside code blocks. So a literal / in a path or a code snippet is left alone.

Panels around the editor

Your editor sits in the middle, and supporting panels dock around it on the left, right, and bottom. The main ones:

  • Explorer: your workspace file tree.
  • Context: what the current item links to, its tags, and related items.
  • Chat: the AI conversation panel.
  • Activity and Watchlists: keep an eye on runs and items you are tracking.
  • Terminal: a shell, when you want one.

Click a panel’s tab to switch to it, drag a tab to a different dock to move it, and drag a divider to resize. Your layout is remembered between sessions, so the workspace reopens exactly as you left it.

Arrange your editor

Everything you open is a tab. You can stack related tabs into a single slot, or split the editor to see two at once, both by dragging tabs around the editor area. The Tabs page walks through both moves, with a diagram you can drive.

Build your own commands

The Commands page (find it in the command palette) is where you create, edit, and organize your own command templates and snippets, so a sequence you repeat becomes one entry you can run anywhere.

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