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<h1 class="p-name">Command Palettes</h1>
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Command palettes are a design pattern where apps expose functionality through a search bar

Typing what you want is almost certainly easier and faster than finding the action in some submenu or remembering an arcane hotkey
- Especially with fuzzy search that also looks through descriptions of actions
- Command palettes scale very well with large amounts of actions

[Artificial Intelligence](/garden/artificial-intelligence/index.md) will make command palettes increasingly powerful
- Eventually these may become conversational interfaces

Maggie Appleton discusses this pattern in her article on [Command K Bars](https://maggieappleton.com/command-bar)
- The name comes from the fact many apps use the ctrl/cmd k shortcut to open the command palette

Many softwares I use have some form of command palette
- Linear
- [Logseq](/garden/logseq/index.md)
- Visual Studio Code