#tut: fixing notion shortcuts

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Minitorial: shift+command+k not opening images in Figma

Recently, I had noticed the issue that when I was working in Figma and tried to open/place images, the keyboard shortcut shift+command+k was not opening an image but instead a search mask to search my space.

I was confused as to why it was doing this and assumed that maybe there was a bug where the same shortcut was used for two different tasks. However, when I clicked on "edit shortcut" in the search mask today, I was taken to the settings of Notion and not of Figma.

As it turns out, when you have Notion open in the background, even if the window is inactive and hidden, the shortcut shift+command+k is still called for Notion, despite actively working in another app.

Now, the simplest solution would be closing Notion entirely while working in Figma, but that's a hassle if you work a lot with both like I do. Instead, I went to settings -> my settings and disabled the toggle "activate direct search", which allows searching Notion via the shortcut even if the app is not active. Alternatively, if you want to keep this enabled (it is enabled by default), you could also set a new shortcut for opening Notion's direct search.

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TL;DR: Notion's direct search (enabled by default) uses the same keyboard shortcut as Figma does for opening images. As the direct search for Notion works even when the app is inactive, this can cause unexpected behavior. You can fix this by turning off the direct search feature or changing its shortcut in Notion's settings.