diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1720b866e6..24ff111ca3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
# QOwnNotes Changelog
+## 24.1.3
+- you now can also use Ctrl + = to increase the text size
+ in the note text edit (for [#2941](https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/issues/2941))
+
## 24.1.2
- the Snap version of QOwnNotes was (in a Herculean effort) migrated from Core18 to Core22
to cause less problems on Ubuntu 23.10 systems (for [#2876](https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/issues/2876))
diff --git a/src/mainwindow.cpp b/src/mainwindow.cpp
index 46283bc761..63d493aea7 100644
--- a/src/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/src/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) : QMainWindow(parent) {
connect(ui->noteEditTabWidget->tabBar(), &QWidget::customContextMenuRequested, this,
&MainWindow::showNoteEditTabWidgetContextMenu);
+ // Set the two shortcuts for the "increase note text size" action
+ const QList shortcuts = {QKeySequence(Qt::CTRL + Qt::Key_Plus), QKeySequence(Qt::CTRL + Qt::Key_Equal)};
+ ui->action_Increase_note_text_size->setShortcuts(shortcuts);
+
initTreeWidgets();
initNotePreviewAndTextEdits();