Using Sinclair
Command palette & quick open
Two keyboard launchers put every action and plugin a few keystrokes away — so you never have to remember a shortcut you use once a month.
Quick open
Press ⌘P (quick_open) for a centered, Spotlight-style
launcher. Type to fuzzy-filter, use ↑/↓ to move,
↵ to run, and Esc to dismiss. It lists, in one place:
- every built-in action (with its keybinding shown as a hint);
- every command contributed by a plugin (as
Plugin name: Command); - each plugin's panel (
Open … panel); and - Plugins: browse & install, which opens the Plugins panel.
The list is rebuilt every time you open it, so a plugin you just installed shows up immediately.
On Linux, ⌘ maps to Ctrl — so quick open is Ctrl+P there.
Command palette
Press ⌘⇧P (command_palette) for the fuzzy command
palette over Sinclair's full action catalog — every built-in action (Notes,
copy/hint mode, the pickers, splits, recording, settings…) and the
commands and surfaces contributed by every installed plugin. Each row shows
the action's current keybinding, so the palette doubles as a way to learn
shortcuts. Type a subsequence of the label to filter (e.g. nst
matches “New Split”), then press ↵.
Anything in the palette can be bound to a key. Every action has a config token (shown on the Keybindings page), so keybind = cmd+shift+n=notes or keybind = cmd+j=open_webview:dashboard launches it directly. Notes is bound to ⌘⌥N by default.
Which one to use
| Quick open ⌘P | Command palette ⌘⇧P | |
|---|---|---|
| Built-in actions | Yes | Yes |
| Plugin commands & panels | Yes | Plugin commands only |
| “Browse & install plugins” entry | Yes | — |
| Built on | guise Spotlight overlay | The classic palette window |
Reach for quick open as your everyday launcher (it knows about plugins); the command palette remains a focused list of the core action catalog.
Plugins panel
Both launchers can jump to the Plugins sidebar panel (the ⧉ activity-bar icon), which lists your installed plugins — their commands (click to run) and panels (click to open) — and an Available section that installs catalog plugins with one click. See Plugins for the full story.
Rebind either launcher in your config — for example
keybind = ctrl+space=quick_open. See
Keybindings & actions.