# Navigate links via simple keyboard shortcut

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/navigate-links-via-simple-keyboard-shortcut/14322>\
**Category:** Feature Request\
**Tags:** features\
**Created:** [November 27, 2024, 6:54am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/navigate-links-via-simple-keyboard-shortcut/14322 "2024-11-27T06:54:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![marlonjames](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/marlonjames/32/1229_2.png) [@marlonjames](https://community.bear.app/u/marlonjames)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 6:54am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/navigate-links-via-simple-keyboard-shortcut/14322/1 "2024-11-27T06:54:38Z")

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Things 3 has a feature that I think would fit into Bear perfectly.

That is the ability to visit links via a simple keyboard shortcut. If the caret is within a link, pressing cmd + option + return will navigate you to that link. Bear currently does nothing with that shortcut as far as I’m aware.

This would work with wikilinks (linking to other notes) as well as take you to external links.

Here’s a video showing it off in Things:

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**Author:** ![trix180](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/trix180/32/588_2.png) [@trix180](https://community.bear.app/u/trix180)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 8:24am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/navigate-links-via-simple-keyboard-shortcut/14322/2 "2024-11-27T08:24:57Z")

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Bear has the CMD+SHIFT+K ( `View > Open Link` ) keystroke for opening links and wiki links. CMD+OPT+SHIFT+K opens the wiki links in another window.

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**Author:** ![marlonjames](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/marlonjames/32/1229_2.png) [@marlonjames](https://community.bear.app/u/marlonjames)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/navigate-links-via-simple-keyboard-shortcut/14322/3 "2024-11-27T15:24:20Z")

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Oh nifty! Thanks for letting me know.
