What is the shortcut to add a comment in Notion?

Notion · Editing & Formatting · updated 2026-08-23

Ctrl + Shift + M — Create a comment

Select the text or block and press Ctrl + Shift + M (Cmd + Shift + M on Mac) to open a comment on it. Comments attached to a block appear in the page's comment thread in the right-hand panel.

Related Notion shortcuts: Editing & Formatting

ShortcutActionNotes
EnterInsert a line of text
Shift + EnterCreate a line break within a block of text
Ctrl + Shift + MCreate a comment
Ctrl + BBold text (text selected)
Ctrl + IItalicize text (text selected)
Ctrl + UUnderline text (text selected)
Ctrl + Shift + SStrikethrough (text selected)
Ctrl + EInline code (text selected)
Shift + TabUn-nest content
Ctrl + Alt/Shift + 0Create text
Ctrl + Alt/Shift + 1Create an H1 heading
Ctrl + Alt/Shift + 2Create an H2 heading
Ctrl + Alt/Shift + 3Create an H3 heading
Ctrl + Alt/Shift + 4Create a to-do checkbox
Ctrl + Alt/Shift + 5Create a bulleted list
Ctrl + Alt/Shift + 6Create a numbered list
Ctrl + Alt/Shift + 7Create a toggle list
Ctrl + Alt/Shift + 8Create a code block
Ctrl + Alt/Shift + 9Create a new page, or turn whatever you have on a line into a page
Ctrl + +Zoom in
Ctrl + -Zoom out
Ctrl + Shift + UGo up one level in the page hierarchy
Ctrl + R or Ctrl + DFill cells right or down (respectively) when you have multiple cells selected (a table)

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