Mar 8
Back / Forward Buttons in iOS
So you can navigate back in the history of notes you have opened previously.
Pending
last week
That's an interesting idea, but I fear few would discover this gesture and therefore the feature (at least I have never tried a three finger swipe anywhere and haven't heard of users trying that).
GuestDec 27, 2025
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The Command Bar “CMD+J” shows notes recently edited.
Nov 21, 2025
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I want to support this feature request. “switch to the previously opened window” function like Visual Studio Code (“go back to last editor/tab”) would be incredibly helpful.
Nov 29, 2023
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Can I pay more to get this implemented? =)
Aug 1, 2022
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Supporting swipe gestures on the trackpad would be nice as well.
Jul 29, 2022
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Jon Plummer: Thanks. Seems like this was requested long ago. Upvoted. Btw, saw the comment about the keyboard shortcuts (CMD+[ and CMD+]), I think I'll program those on my MX Master as a workaround. :)
Jul 27, 2022
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Wanted to add that it's been clearer that this would definitely help me being productive. As now that I'm using the Weekly Planner on my process sometimes I click and get navigated into the weekly plan note, and my first reaction is to click back to go back, but nothing happens.
Jul 23, 2022
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Just realized that back and forward buttons currently work as undo and redo actions.
Feb 18, 2022
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Another thought on how an iOS- specific implementation of this could be done: Use swipes left/right from offscreen. Eduard had pointed out to me that this is already used to expose the sidebar, and deal with showing/hiding panes on iPad, but I think there's an option to distinguish swipes on the upper vs lower part of the screen. In iOS 15, Safari does this to allow a swipe on the address bar (bottom of screen) to switch tabs, vs the usual fwd/back navigation on the upper part of the screen. So in NotePlan, this could be: - lower 1/3: left/right swipe from offscreen would expose/hide sidebar as it does now - upper 2/3 of screen: use for fwd/back navigation. I think this nicely mirrors the same "shuffling pages" operation in Safari and similar apps with History navigation, PLUS feels similar to the on-screen swipes between days of the NP daily view (And, iOS Multitask uses bottom-edge swipes to switch apps ("context switch", like bringing in the sidebar is) so this paradigm isn't too unusual)
Oct 5, 2021
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Seems like cmd+[ and cmd+] are indent and outdent on iPadOS instead of navigation. Why the discrepancy? I would much rather have a shortcut for navigation than in/outdent which has an easy alternative with tab/delete.
Jul 31, 2021
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"Go back" ( `cmd+[` and `cmd+]` ) doesn't work between daily notes, there shouldn't be a difference between daily and project notes. I should be able to just "go back" to previous note. :)
Mar 25, 2021
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On mobile, this is sorely missed. But I recently (re)discovered that the command bar pops up a recent note history. These appear to be non-daily notes only
Mar 25, 2021
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There is only one history back/forward and thats bottom right of the sidebar. The other arrows are for switching days or months. Not sure how to change this? All arrows have a purpose.
Mar 25, 2021
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Eduard Metzger: This didn't do what I expected when I first tried it a while back, so I stopped. Maybe it does what I expect now. I'll give it another whack. Is there a key command for it?
Mar 25, 2021
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Jon Plummer: Yes, it's `CMD+[` and `CMD+]`. Let me know if it's what you are looking for. It just doesn't cover the days. So if you switched from yesterday to tomorrow it won't give you that as back option, but if you switch between anything you can click on in the sidebar.
Mar 25, 2021
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Eduard Metzger: "it just doesn't cover the days" – why not? Because "daily notes" is thought of as a single place?
Mar 26, 2021
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Eduard Metzger: Okay. Here's a behavior that seem odd that relates to the "back" action. 0) I'm on a named note [[Bob]] 1) I click "Daily Notes", arriving at today's note 2) I type a link to a new note, for example [[Alice]] 3) I click the link, thus creating and navigating to the [[Alice]] note 4) Clicking on "Daily Notes" does nothing, as it is already selected 5) "Back" goes to [[Bob]], not my daily note 6) "Forward" from [[Bob]] takes me to today's daily note I expected "back" from [[Alice]] to take me to today's note. (I also expected to be able to create [[Alice]] in a new window, but that's a different request.)
Mar 29, 2021
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Jon Plummer: Yes, it breaks a bit with the logic. The arrows in the sidebar control the history of the sidebar selections. Switching between daily notes doesn't change the sidebar selection.
Mar 29, 2021
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Jon Plummer: Saw this also recently, apparently creating new notes has a timing problem (I guess). The note is added to the sidebar too late, after the selection command has been issue. And that messes up the order with the back button I guess. It's noted.
Apr 3, 2021
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Jon Plummer: Have fixed this bug (creating a new note from a link was not selecting it in the sidebar, hence the issues with the back button you experienced), will be in the next update!
Jul 31, 2021
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Eduard Metzger: will it be possible to go back between daily notes?
Aug 13, 2021
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s__d: Yes, this needs to be added to the back/forward algorithm. Thanks for pointing it out.
Mar 12, 2021
And also in MacOS
Mar 12, 2021
Arne: On Mac you have forward/back buttons bottom left in the sidebar.
Mar 15, 2021
Eduard Metzger: Unbelievable I just find out now :) Wow... that will save me time. Don't tell me there's also a keyboard shortcut for it??
Mar 15, 2021
Arne: Yes, CMD+[ and CMD+] :)
Mar 8, 2021
Navigation on iOS used to be one of the main pain points for me actually. When you have iPhone 7 Plus, it is hard to tap the button at the top-left corner of the screen to see the menu. I understand that you use swipe actions to switch between day notes but it is quite hard to swipe them, I don’t know why. Some navigation buttons at the bottom of the screen would also help, of course, so voting up this one. But not for “back/forward” mainly but for opening the menu and switching between consequential daily notes and consequential project notes.
I'm not looking for buttons, but a three-finger swipe for back and forward is the kind of fluid interaction I miss to jump between recently open notes.