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The palette

The palette goes anywhere in desk from the keyboard: a card’s panel, a server, a running session, or an action like New card. Press Ctrl+K.

The palette over the board: a search box, the scopes All, Cards, Servers, Sessions and Actions, the list of cards, and DESK-1’s preview on the right

Ctrl+K works on the board and from a session’s message box. It doesn’t work while a dialog or the settings are open.

Type to search. The palette matches with the same syntax as the board’s search, on each item’s key, title and what follows it (the organization, a server’s group). The best match comes first, as Top result, then the rest, grouped by kind. The words you typed are highlighted.

The palette searching “acme”: Top result DESK-3, then the Acme cards DESK-6 and DESK-8, then the actions New card in Acme and Open Acme settings

“acme” finds Acme’s cards and Acme’s actions.

With the search empty, the palette lists the eight items you opened last under Recent, then everything else by kind.

Key Does
↑ ↓ move the selection
Enter open the selected item
Tab / Shift+Tab next / previous scope
Esc close

A click on an item opens it too. A click outside the palette closes it.

The tabs under the search box narrow the list to one kind. Click one, or cycle through them with Tab.

Scope Lists Opening one
All everything below
Cards every card on the board, Done included, with its key and organization opens its session panel
Servers each organization’s infra Claude, and every server with its state (connected, with Claude, waiting, alert) opens it in the servers workspace
Sessions the cards whose session or terminal is running now opens its full window
Actions New card, New card in each organization, Settings, Open organization settings, Search folders runs it

The Actions scope: New card with Ctrl+N, New card in Acme, Globex, Initech, Settings, Open Acme, Globex and Initech settings, Search folders

The Actions scope.

The right side of the palette describes the selected item.

  • For a card: its column, organization, status (with its reason) and how many links it has.
  • For a server: its address, its group and its status.

Archived cards aren’t in the palette. Find them in the Done archive.