Formatting and the toolbar

While you're editing, a formatting toolbar sits above the document for every block and inline style Context Raven supports.

How to reach it

The toolbar appears automatically when you enter editing mode. It's sticky — it stays visible as you scroll — and collapsible: a chevron button hides it, and your choice persists across documents and app restarts.

What's on it

• Headings H1–H3 (H4–H6 are supported in the document itself, but not as separate toolbar buttons — type ####, #####, or ###### at the start of a line instead).
• Bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code.
• Bullet list, numbered list, task list, blockquote, horizontal rule.
• Code block, with a language picker for syntax highlighting.
• Link, which opens a link dialog.

Bullet and numbered lists nest, and an empty bullet survives a save instead of being cleaned up. Task lists nest too (Tab indents a task under the one above it, Shift-Tab undoes that); see Reading and editing for which nested checkboxes toggle with a single click in reading mode. Blockquotes nest too — each level of nesting draws its own bar. A horizontal rule is written back to the file as ---.

Keyboard shortcuts

⌘⇧X is Context Raven's own binding for strikethrough, chosen because ⌘⇧S is already Save As….

Links

Click the link button, or select text first and then click it, to open the link dialog: enter the URL and, if you didn't select text, the display text. Editing an existing link works the same way — click into it and use the same button.

Only http://, https://, and mailto: links are clickable once you're back in reading mode or in an export; other link forms are stored but not clickable there.

Code blocks

A code block gets its own language picker in the toolbar. Setting a language enables syntax highlighting for that block in both editing and reading mode, and carries through to exports.

Limits

• The toolbar is hidden entirely on windows narrower than 768 px; formatting still works through Markdown syntax and keyboard shortcuts at that width.
• Strikethrough only recognizes the ~~text~~ form.