Commands

The command palette is the quickest way round an application: press Ctrl + K (⌘ + K on a Mac), type a few letters, press Enter. It finds actions, pages and records together — “nwi” finds New invoice, “acme” finds the customer — and remembers what the reader ran last.

Commands come in groups with icons, shortcuts and badges. A command can open a page of its own choices, loaded when it is opened (Assign to… a person). Your own data is searched as the reader types, from as many sources as you give it, with slow answers abandoned when the query moves on. Shortcuts run their commands from anywhere on the page. It opens as a dialog over the page or sits in it, and the keyboard, the screen reader and right-to-left text are all looked after.