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Navigation

Zensical Studio's navigation features allow you to navigate your project's files in a number of ways that make use of the folder structure, filenames, and heading structure within the content.

Open the outline

Visual Studio CodeCursorZedJetBrains IDEs has an Outline viewOutline viewoutline paneloutline view that shows the headings in the current Markdown file.

  1. Open the explorerOpen the explorerOpen the project panelCtrl+Shift+EmacOSCmd+Shift+EWindowsCtrl+Shift+ELinuxCtrl+Shift+E.
  2. Expand Open the OutlineOpen the OutlineOpen the Outline PanelOpen File Structure.
  3. Click a heading to jump to that section.

The Outline view shows the heading structure of the current Markdown file. You can fold and expand entries and click on them to scroll to a specific heading.

the outline view shows the heading structure of the current page

Use breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs show the path to the current file and the path within the file to the section the cursor is in. Not only can you see your current location, by clicking on the breadcrumbs you can navigate to parents and siblings of the breadcrumb elements displayed.

This is useful when you are working in a long document and want a quick sense of where you are without losing the rest of the page.

If Visual Studio CodeCursorZedJetBrains IDEs does not show breadcrumbs, you can turn them on with View → Appearance → Breadcrumbs.

Jump to a heading

You can list the headings in your current Markdown file and jump to one of them by using Ctrl+Shift+OmacOSCmd+Shift+OWindowsCtrl+Shift+OLinuxCtrl+Shift+O. You can type in part of the heading title to narrow down the list and browse, then select the heading you want to go to. This is the fastest way to move through a long page with ease.

jump to any heading in the current file

Search headings across files

Use Ctrl+TmacOSCmd+TWindowsCtrl+TLinuxCtrl+T when the target you are looking for is in another file. Pick the file and heading you want and jump straight to it.

search headings across files

Inspect references

Use find all referencesfind all referencesfind referencesfind usagesShift+F12 to see where a heading is used in links. If there is more than one location then you get a window overlay that allows you to choose one occurence to jump to as well as giving a preview of the location of the link.

inspect references lets you search for headings in all files

Folding

As Zensical Studio identifies headings and other Markdown block elements, you can use the folding functionality in Visual Studio CodeCursorZedJetBrains IDEs to hide away content. To get a preview of what is inside a folded-away heading, for example, hover over it.

you can fold away blocks and then use hover to preview their content

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