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Command Palettes

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 will make command palettes increasingly powerful

• Eventually these may become conversational interfaces

Maggie Appleton discusses this pattern in her article on Command K Bars

• 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
• Visual Studio Code