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Emoji and quicklinks
Type a colon and a name for emoji anywhere in Cleat, and use keyword quicklinks like g, yt, so and mdn to search the sites you use without opening a browser tab first.
Emoji
Type : and a name: :rocket, :party, :eyes. Matches appear in the root palette and Return pastes the character. emoji followed by a space opens the full list. Names come from Unicode’s own character names, so there is no list to keep up to date.
Quicklinks
A quicklink is a keyword and a URL with {query} in it. g swift concurrency searches Google. These ship by default:
| Keyword | Site |
|---|---|
g |
|
ddg |
DuckDuckGo |
yt |
YouTube |
wiki |
Wikipedia |
maps |
Apple Maps |
so |
Stack Overflow |
mdn |
MDN Web Docs |
npm |
npm |
github |
GitHub |
apple |
Apple Developer Docs |
amazon |
Amazon |
imdb |
IMDb |
Edit Quicklinks opens ~/.config/cleat/quicklinks.json. Add an entry with a keyword, a name and a URL. Raycast quicklinks import with the rest of a Raycast export.
Pins, habits and hints
⌘K on any emoji offers Pin to the top. Pinned emoji lead the list when the emoji field is empty and float to the front of any search they match. Below the pins, the empty field shows what you actually use, ranked by how often and how recently, so the row you reach for every day arrives without a pin.
A custom hint is an alias: select the emoji, ⌘K, Set Alias, type shrug. From then on shrug in the root field lands on that one, above anything the name search would have picked. Emoji also appear in the root list for any query of two letters or more, two at most and well below apps; Settings › Search turns that off.
Skin tones
⌘K on an emoji that takes a modifier lists the five skin tones; Return pastes that variant.