Command palette and keyboard shortcuts

The command palette

In the dashboard, press Ctrl+Shift+P (Cmd+Shift+P on Mac). A dialog titled Command palette opens with a Search commands box.

• Type to filter by name. Matching ignores case and looks anywhere in the command name.
• ↓ and ↑ move the highlight, and wrap around.
• Enter runs the highlighted command. Esc closes the palette without running anything.
• Tab stays inside the dialog. When it closes, focus returns to where you were.
• If another dialog is already open, the shortcut does nothing, so you cannot stack dialogs by accident.

The shortcut was chosen to avoid Ctrl+K, which browsers use for search.

The thirteen commands

Commands that change bookmarks keep their normal confirmations; the palette is only a faster way to reach them.

Command	Library tools group	What it does
Saved views	Organize	Save, open or delete a smart view
Bulk tags	Organize	Add, remove, rename or merge tags with preview and undo. See Organizing
Duplicate preview	Organize	Choose survivors and merge duplicates. See Cleaning up
Delete selected	Organize	Delete the selected bookmarks (asks first)
Resumable scan	Check links	Start, pause, resume or cancel a saved link scan. See Link health
Inspect visible	Check links	Check the selected, or else all visible, bookmarks once
Repair redirected	Check links	Update redirected bookmarks to their final address (asks first)
Export snapshot	Backup and import	Download a snapshot file. See Backup and restore
Restore snapshot	Backup and import	Choose a snapshot file and restore it into a new folder
Import bookmarks…	Backup and import	Choose a file to import, with preview
Export visible as CSV	Backup and import	Download the visible bookmarks as a spreadsheet-safe CSV file. See Backup and restore
Diagnostic export	Troubleshoot	Preview and download a privacy-filtered diagnostic file. See Diagnostics
Clear cached health data	Troubleshoot	Forget cached link-health results (asks first)

The same commands appear under the Library tools button, grouped as shown. The palette is the quickest route to them from the keyboard.

Keyboard shortcuts

Dashboard

Keys	Does this	Notes
Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P	Open the command palette	Works even when a text box has focus; ignored while another dialog is open
/	Focus the search box	Only when you are not already typing in a field
Ctrl+A / Cmd+A	Select all bookmarks in the current view	Selects the whole filtered view, not only drawn rows
↓ / ↑	Move the active row down or up	The detail panel follows the active row
Enter	Open the active bookmark in a new tab
E	Edit the active bookmark	Then Ctrl+Enter saves and Esc cancels
Space	Select or unselect the active row
Delete / Backspace	Delete the selected bookmarks	Only if something is selected; asks to confirm
Esc	Back out one layer	See below
1 2 3	Page, Host, Domain scope	Only when the dashboard was opened from a right-click entry; see below

The 1, 2 and 3 keys switch the dashboard between the page, host and domain scope of an address. They need an address to work from, which only a right-click entry (see the popup guide) provides. On a dashboard you opened normally they show This page is not supported with an empty list; reload the dashboard to get your whole library back.

When single-key shortcuts are paused

• While you are typing in the search box, a title field or a tag field. (The exceptions are Ctrl + Shift + P , Esc to cancel an edit, and Ctrl + Enter to save one.)
• While focus is on a button, link, checkbox, menu item or other control, so Space and Enter keep their normal meaning on it.
• While any dialog (confirm, Library tools, palette) is open.

Escape clears things one layer at a time

With the cursor outside any text box, each press of Esc undoes the innermost thing that is active. In order:

1. Cancel editing a bookmark.
2. Clear the search text.
3. Clear the active filter chip.
4. Clear the selection.
5. Dismiss the toast (which also removes an Undo button you have not used).

Menus close on Esc first. Inside any dialog, Esc closes the dialog.

Tag field on a row

Enter or , adds the tag and Esc clears the field. See Organizing.

Popup

The popup has no custom shortcuts. Esc closes its menu or dialog, and Tab moves between controls. Chrome lets you assign a shortcut to open the popup at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

In the settings page

Standard form behavior: Tab between fields, Enter in a field submits Save settings.

Accessibility notes

• Dialogs have accessible names, trap Tab while open, close on Esc or a backdrop click, and return focus to the control that opened them.
• Each row checkbox is named with the bookmark's title and address.
• Screen-reader behavior and contrast have not been formally audited. If you find a barrier, please report it (opens in a new tab) .