Gnote is a very handy note taking app you can use on a Linux Desktop.
It has some nice keyboard shortcuts, but unfortunately Gnome is moving out from showing the shortcuts by default on every menu item, which to me was the only way to learn them.
Because when you open the menu everytime by mouse, you see immediately how you can do it faster by keyboard.
Not showing the shortcuts by default is designed for touchscreens or for mobile devices, but the default overview of shortcuts does have a big omission.
Plugin shortcuts are not displayed!
So how do you know you have to type CTRL + D to get the date.
I’m using Linux long enough to know that there was a shortcut for inserting the date/timestamp. BTW you need to enable the plugin for inserting the timestamp, but I forgot which shortcut to use.
I tried to look it up, but it’s not in the shortcut overview. How nice and handy.
Luckily I found this bug report, which explains that the shortcut is CTRL + D. (Which also more often is a shortcut for DELETE in other programs, so be careful)
Let’s wrap it up.
The shortcut for inserting the timestamp/date in Gnote is CTRL + D. Don’t forget to enable the plugin before in Preferences -> Plugins -> Insert Timestamp, and probably set your default format in the preferences of the plugin.
I always think that the date should be sortable by default so 2025-09-09 11:56 is the correct format.