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Finding anything with the ⌘K palette

Romualdo DasigJun 27, 20263 min read
Finding anything with the ⌘K palette

The fastest way to open anything in DevStash isn't a click — it's ⌘K. The command palette is the front door to your whole stash: items, collections, every type, all from the keyboard.

Search across everything

The palette matches on content, titles, tags, and types at once. Half-remember a snippet but know it mentioned AbortController? Type it. Only recall you tagged something deploy? That works too. You don't have to know where a thing lives to find it.

Tricks that make it fast

  • Search by intent — the words you'd think, not the exact title.
  • Lean on tags as a fuzzy filter when the title escapes you.
  • Hit ⌘K, type a few letters, and press Enter — the top result is usually the one you meant.

If it takes longer to find a snippet than to rewrite it, the tool has failed. The palette exists so retrieval always wins.

Give it a week and the palette becomes muscle memory. You stop browsing for things and start summoning them.

Romualdo Dasig

Building DevStash — one fast, searchable, AI-enhanced hub for developer knowledge.