# What actionButtons do you use?
**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552
**Category:** Tricks & Techniques
**Created:** [July 2, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552 "2024-07-02T13:52:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/1 "2024-07-02T13:52:40Z")
For a little while now, the action buttons (top right buttons in the UI) have been configurable in SETTINGS: [SETTINGS](https://silverbullet.md/SETTINGS)
What are y’all using it for? My only adjustment is adding a button for Quick Note:
```yaml
actionButtons:
- icon: file
command: "{[Quick Note]}"
- icon: home
command: "{[Navigate: Home]}"
description: "Go to the index page"
- icon: book
command: "{[Navigate: Page Picker]}"
description: Open page
- icon: terminal
command: "{[Open Command Palette]}"
description: Run command
```
Anybody using this for something surprising or useful?
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### Author:  [@pihentagy](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/pihentagy)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/2 "2024-07-02T18:45:56Z")
What is your plan, if you will add a new icon in the future?
If you were customized the buttons with `actionButtons`, it wouln’t appear and you would miss that.
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/3 "2024-07-02T18:55:14Z")
No plan. Just collecting creative uses of this feature. This is not a “I’m looking for stuff to remove” thread 😉
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### Author:  [@pihentagy](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/pihentagy)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2024, 9:53am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/4 "2024-07-03T09:53:50Z")
Fine, but my take would be to let plugins add their own buttons to actionButtons. Maybe there should be a way to disable or reorg buttons, but primirarly I expect buttons to “magically” apper from plugins.
I literally feared to override the buttons because I feared to miss out new buttons.
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### Author:  [@Knah-Tsaeb](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Knah-Tsaeb)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 8:18am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/5 "2024-07-04T08:18:35Z")
Nothing special
```auto
actionButtons:
- icon: home
command: "{[Navigate: Home]}"
description: "Go to the index page"
- icon: book
command: "{[Navigate: Page Picker]}"
description: Open page
- icon: terminal
command: "{[Open Command Palette]}"
description: Run command
- icon: sidebar
command: "{[Tree View: Toggle]}"
description: "Toggle Tree View"
- icon: moon
command: "{[Editor: Toggle Dark Mode]}"
description: "Toggle Dark Mode"
- icon: eye
command: "{[Markdown Preview: Toggle]}"
description: "Toggle Preview"
```
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 8:39am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/6 "2024-07-04T08:39:04Z")
> [@Knah-Tsaeb](#):
>
> ```auto
> - icon: eye
> command: "{[Markdown Preview: Toggle]}"
> description: "Toggle Preview"
>
> ```
Hah! You’re using markdown preview! [Who’s using markdown preview?](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/who-s-using-markdown-preview/550)
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### Author:  [@dsegonds](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/dsegonds)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/7 "2024-07-04T13:51:08Z")
Here are mine. Nothing original. 🙂
```auto
actionButtons:
- icon: home
command: "{[Navigate: Home]}"
description: "Go to the index page"
- icon: search
command: "{[Search Space]}"
description: "Search"
- icon: book
command: "{[Navigate: Page Picker]}"
description: Open page
- icon: terminal
command: "{[Open Command Palette]}"
description: Run command
- icon: sidebar
command: "{[Tree View: Toggle]}"
description: "Toggle Tree View"
- icon: arrow-left
command: "{[Navigate: Back in History]}"
description: "Go to the previous page"
mobile: true
```
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### Author:  [@i\_am\_dangry](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/i_am_dangry)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/8 "2024-07-04T22:30:55Z")
Similar to everyone else.
```auto
actionButtons:
- icon: home
command: "{[Navigate: Home]}"
description: "Go to the index page"
- icon: file
command: "{[Quick Note]}"
description: "Create a quick note"
- icon: book-open
command: "{[Todays Note]}"
description: "Open today's journal entry"
- icon: book
command: "{[Navigate: Page Picker]}"
description: Open page
- icon: terminal
command: "{[Open Command Palette]}"
description: Run command
- icon: sidebar
command: "{[Tree View: Toggle]}"
description: "Toggle Tree View"
mobile: false
```
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### Author:  [@meain](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/meain)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 6:06am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/9 "2024-07-13T06:06:48Z")
In addition to the usual, I have buttons to go back and forward and one for daily note. These come in handy on mobile devices.
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### Author:  [@paletochen](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/paletochen)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/10 "2024-07-13T15:25:01Z")
Here are mine in mobile
```auto
actionButtons:
- icon: Home
command: "{[Navigate: Home]}"
description: "Go to the index page"
- icon: shopping-cart
description: "Shopping List"
command: '{[Navigate: To Page]("Shopping List")}'
mobile: true
- icon: Book
command: "{[Navigate: Page Picker]}"
description: Open page
- icon: Terminal
command: "{[Open Command Palette]}"
description: Run command
- icon: sidebar
command: "{[Tree View: Toggle]}"
description: "Toggle Tree View"
mobile: false
- icon: arrow-left
command: "{[Navigate: Back in History]}"
description: "Go to the previous page"
mobile: true
```
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### Author:  [@choddles](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/choddles)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/11 "2024-07-14T21:04:41Z")
Very new to to silverbullet, looking at editing these action buttons, I guess editing ! [SETTINGS](http://silverbullet.md/SETTINGS) should not be done as its grey and comes up in a red banner could not save page, retrying in 10 seconds.
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### Author:  [@Ross](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/Ross)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/12 "2024-07-14T21:48:27Z")
This is where you would make those edits. Any chance you can tell if there are any errors in your logs or console?
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/13 "2024-07-15T04:06:12Z")
You edit them in your space’s SETTINGS page. Since this is a meta page, you get to it via the Meta Picker (Ctrl-Shift-k or Cmd-Shift-k on Mac) or by running the `Navigate: Open SETTINGS` command
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### Author:  [@choddles](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/choddles)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/14 "2024-07-15T20:17:36Z")
there is a SETTINGS page and a ! [SETTINGS](http://silverbullet.md/SETTINGS) page, the 2nd is populated with the stock settings, the 1`st is just a link to the 2nd i think
there are no errors on the logging ( docker ) on linux.
edit :–
ok sorted, there are user settings and system settings pages ) which are protected )
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### Author:  [@adambeltz2](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/adambeltz2)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2026, 2:42am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/15 "2026-05-14T02:42:50Z")
In V2 how do you implement the quick note? to display as an actionButton?
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### Author:  [@schroederc](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/schroederc)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/16 "2026-05-17T19:21:18Z")
If you mean add the "Quick Note" command to your hotbar, you can add something like this to your `CONFIG` page:
````
```space-lua
actionButton.define {
icon = "edit3",
run = function()
editor.invokeCommand("Quick Note")
end,
}
```
````
Or if you're past version 2.7.0:
````
```space-lua
actionButton.define {
icon = "edit3",
command = "Quick Note",
}
```
````
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### Author:  [@cladv](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/cladv)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/what-actionbuttons-do-you-use/552/17 "2026-05-27T14:41:21Z")
In my case.
- Today's journal.
- Navigate home/index.
- History page (back/forward).
- Document picker.
- Silversearch
- Link to this community.
- Link to my home dashboard.
- Run command.
- Set read-only/write mode.