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Command palette 0:49
A 49-second explainer of Command palette, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
A command palette is a search box for actions: press a shortcut (often Cmd/Ctrl+K), type a few letters, and run any command, jump to any page, or find any item without hunting through menus. It collapses a whole interface's worth of navigation into one keyboard-driven box.
A few letters and the action surfaced, ready to run - no menus, no hunting, no mouse. That's the command palette's promise to people who live in an app: everything by name, a keystroke away. The catch is it only helps those who know it's there - which is why it's an accelerator, not the front door.
