Tutorial - n8n Keyboard Shortcuts
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workflow.json
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"content": "# Tutorial - n8n Keyboard Shortcuts!\n\nWelcome! This workflow is an interactive playground to help you master the most useful keyboard shortcuts in n8n.\n\n**How to use this tutorial:**\nFollow the main path from top to bottom. Each step will give you a small task to complete using a keyboard shortcut. Just do what the sticky notes say!\n\nLet's begin!"
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"content": "## Chapter 1: Node Basics\n\nLet's start with the fundamentals of interacting with a single node."
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"content": "## Chapter 2: Canvas Navigation & Selection\n\nNow let's learn how to move around the canvas and manage multiple nodes like a pro."
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"content": "## Chapter 3: Advanced Actions\n\nTime for some powerful moves:\n- Repositioning (Tidy Up)\n- Creating sub-workflows.\n- Canvas Zoom Control"
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"content": "## Chapter 4: Execution & Debugging\n\nThese shortcuts are essential when you're testing your workflows."
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"content": "## 🎉 You've Mastered the Basics!\n\nThe most important shortcut of all?\n\n## `Ctrl + S`\n### to Save your workflow!**\n\nDo it often. Congratulations!"
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"content": "**Task:** Select this node.\n\nPress **`Space`** to rename it.\n\nCall it \"My First Node\" and press Enter."
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"content": "**Task:** Select this Set node.\n\nPress **`Enter`** to open its settings panel.\n\nChange the value from \"Hello World\" to your name!"
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"content": "**Task:** Select this node.\n\nPress **`D`** to deactivate it.\n\nNotice how it turns grey and would be skipped during an execution."
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"content": "**Task:** Press **`Tab`** anywhere on the canvas.\n\nThis opens the node search menu. Type \"Set\" and press Enter to add a new Set Node."
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"content": "**Task:** Select multiple nodes.\n\n**Method 1:** Hold **`Ctrl`** and click on Node A, B, and C.\n\n**Method 2:** Click and drag a selection box around all three nodes.\n\n**Method 3:** Click on the first or last node, then hold **`Ctrl`** and press the Left or Right arrow key."
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"content": "**Task:**\n1. Click \"Execute Workflow\" on the left of the \"Execute Set Node\".\n2. After it runs, select **this** Set node.\n3. Press **`P`** to **Pin** its data.\n\n\nPinned data stays visible even after you run the workflow again, which is great for comparing results or avoiding run costs and delays!"
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"content": "**Task:** Select the nodes in this node.\n\nPress **`Shift + Alt + T`** to tidy up selected nodes.\n\nPress **`Alt + X`** to create a sub workflow with selected nodes."
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