Command palette

Press ⌘K to open the command palette — a fuzzy-filtered list of every action Shrike can perform. Start typing, press Enter, done.

Why it matters

The palette and the keymap are two front-ends onto the same set of commands. That has two nice consequences:

• You never have to remember where a command lives. If you can name it, you can run it — archive, snooze, switch account, compose, open settings, jump to the calendar, and so on.
• It teaches you the keyboard. Each result shows its shortcut hint, so every time you reach for the palette you’re nudged toward the faster bare key. Over a week, the palette trains your hands and then you stop needing it.

Using it

1. ⌘K to open.
2. Type a few characters of the action — matching is fuzzy, so “arc” finds Archive and “swacc” finds Switch account.
3. ↑ / ↓ to move, Enter to run, Esc to dismiss.

Search vs. palette

The palette runs actions. To search your mail, press / instead — that opens full-text search over your local store, which is instant because nothing leaves your machine to do it.