Command palette & keyboard shortcuts
⌘⇧P opens the command palette — a fuzzy-searchable list of every action in the app. Type a few characters of what you want, hit ↵, done. Every menu-bar action, sidebar action, and major navigation move is accessible from here.
Why a command palette
Two reasons. (1) Discoverability — every action is reachable from one entry point, so you don't memorise menu structures. (2) Speed — three keystrokes is faster than mouse-tracking through a hierarchical menu, especially as the app gains features.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌘⇧P | Open command palette |
| ⌘N | Add host (manual) |
| ⌘R | Scan now (selected host) |
| ⌘⇧R | Scan all hosts |
| Esc | Cancel scan / Close sheet |
| ⌘E | Export findings (PDF / CSV / NDJSON) |
| ⌘⇧U | Reload custom checks |
| ⌘, | Open Settings |
| ⌘1 / ⌘2 / ⌘3 | Switch sidebar tab (Hosts / Findings / Dashboard) |
| ⌘F | Focus search field |
| ↑ / ↓ | Navigate hosts list |
| Delete | Remove selected host (with confirmation) |
| ⌘W | Close window |
| ⌘Q | Quit Noxen (cancels in-flight scan) |
Adding to the palette
The palette's action list comes from PaletteAction.all
in the source. New product features that should be discoverable
here are added by the Noxen team in the same PR that adds the
feature. There's no public extension API in v1.0 — custom
palette entries are tracked as a future feature request.
Recently used
The palette ranks results by (1) fuzzy-match score against what you typed, (2) most-recent / most-frequent local use. Frequently-used actions float to the top with no input — ⌘⇧P ↵ repeats the last action. Useful for the "scan all" → review → "scan all" loop.
Accessibility
The palette respects VoiceOver — each result is announced with
its action name, current keyboard binding, and category.
accessibilityReduceMotion short-circuits the
open/close animation so motion-sensitive users don't get the
slide-up effect. The fuzzy matcher is keyboard-navigable
end-to-end.