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Commands

All Lighthouse commands are accessible from the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl+P). Type “Lighthouse” to filter them.

Detaches Obsidian’s native file explorer and opens the Library (left sidebar) and Inspector (right sidebar), Lighthouse’s dedicated layout for long-form writing. The main editor area is untouched.

Closes the Library and Inspector and restores the native file explorer.

Opens or closes just the Library panel, without affecting the rest of the Writing Workspace. Useful for bringing the panel back if you closed its tab manually.

Opens or closes just the Inspector panel, without affecting the rest of the Writing Workspace.

The ribbon’s compass icon toggles the whole Writing Workspace on and off in one click.

Opens the project creation modal. Walks you through setting a name, root folder, goals, deadline, citations, and more.

Opens a fuzzy-search picker listing all your projects. Start typing to filter by name. Selecting a project makes it active immediately across the Library, Inspector, and status bar.

Opens the export dialog for the active project — compile it to PDF, DOCX, EPUB, or Markdown. See Exporting & Compiling.

Splits the active file at the cursor position: everything before stays, everything after moves into a new sibling note. See Splitting & Merging Notes.

Toggles Flow Mode on or off. When active, Flow Mode hides sidebars, tabs, breadcrumbs, and (configurably) the status bar and ribbon, and can optionally enable typewriter scrolling, a custom reading font, adjusted line height, and a narrower line width. See Flow Mode.