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Cmdk – CD anywhere and open anything in your terminal

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The ⌘-k "access anything" shortcut is awesome on Notion, Slack, etc.

The terminal, by comparison, is a dinosaur: tons of repeated cd and ls and TAB just to get anywhere.

This is ⌘-k for the terminal: access anything on your filesystem, from anywhere, with previews before you open:

When you press enter...

Directories get cd d to

d to Text files get opened in vim

Images and PDFs get opened in the Preview app

.key files get opened in Keynote

I'm extremely grateful to fzf; this project wouldn't be possible without it. I'd been fed up with terminal navigation for a decade, and fzf was the missing piece needed to make cmdk possible.

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