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All of explore, surf and checkmark are equipped with < Ctrl-t > keyding to toggle between structural links -> structural task -> details -> (cycle) preview of current note or note subgraph respectively. This rendered p/print command somewhat redundant.

mds -h

``` meudeus v0.14.2 a skim shredder for plain-text papers

Usage: mds [OPTIONS]

Commands: debug-cfg print Debug representtion of config init initialize .sqlite database in notes dir, specified by config note create a note [aliases: n] tag create a tag (note without file body) [aliases: t] select select note S, i.e. print its name to stdout link link 2 notes A -> B, selected twice in skim interface [aliases: l] unlink unlink 2 notes A -> B, selected twice in skim interface [aliases: ul] remove remove note R, selected in skim interface [aliases: rm] rename rename note R, selected in skim interface [aliases: mv] print print subgraph of notes and links reachable downwards from selected note P [aliases: p] explore explore notes by (backlinks) , (links forward) [aliases: ex] surf surf through all links and code snippets found downwards from selected note S [aliases: s] checkmark checkmark, toggle state TODO/DONE of multiple task items, found in a selected note C [aliases: k] help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options: -c, --color whether color output should be forced -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version ```

Keybindings of explore command

• explore mode

  | Binding | Effect | |---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Ctrl-c | Abort | | ESC | Abort | | Enter | Open selected note in editor | | Ctrl-h | Populate skim selection with backlinks of selected note | | Ctrl-l | Populate skim selection with forward links of selected note | | Ctrl-t | Toggle preview type of notes | | Ctrl-w | Widen skim selection to full list of all notes | | Ctrl-s | Switch mode to surf with the selected note as the root of surfed subtree | | Ctrl-k | Switch mode to checkmark for task items of selected note | | Alt-r | Rename selected note | | Alt-l | Create a link from selected note to another, selected in next skim iteration | | Alt-u | Remove a link from selected note to one of its forward links | | Alt-d | Remove selected note | | Alt-c | Create a new note/tag, which will become one of selected note's forward links|

• surf mode

  | Binding | Effect | |---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Ctrl-c | Abort | | ESC | Abort | | Enter | Open selected link with a command, depending on link's type | | Ctrl-j | Jump to selected link's position in editor | | Ctrl-e | Return to explore mode (in explore command) or abort surf command |

• checkmark mode

  | Binding | Effect | |---------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Ctrl-c | Abort | | ESC | Abort | | TAB (skim) | Select and move down | | Shift+TAB (skim) | Select and move up | | Enter | Toggle state todo/done of multiple selected task items | | Ctrl-j | Jump to selected task item's position in editor | | Ctrl-y | Copy selected task item's subtree to clipboard | | Ctrl-w | Widen context of task items to all tasks, parse again from file | | Ctrl-l | Narrown context of task items to subtree of selected note | | Ctrl-e | Return to explore mode (in explore command) or abort checkmark command |

• common less obvious keybindings from vanilla skim

  | Binding | Effect | |---------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | PageUp| Move up by many items in skim selection | | PageDown|Move down by many items in skim selection | | Shift-ArrowUp| Scroll preview port up (without mouse) | | Shirt-ArrowDown| Scroll preview port down (without mouse) |

Colors

• Some color themes for markdown elements can be found at rainglow/sublime and previewed at this awesome website rainglow.io.
• if the patchwork in markdown irritates you, please remember, that settings.background value in a theme is editable

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