getting around
Finding the session you want when there are twenty of them.
Past about six sessions the sidebar stops being something you scan. These are the ways through it.
Jump to whatever needs you
⌘⇧J focuses the next session waiting on you, and cycles through them. It turns “check on everything” into a key you press until there is nothing left.
The most pressing comes first: a failed turn, then a permission prompt, question or plan, then a finished turn, and within each the one that has waited longest. It reaches into collapsed groups too.
Quick Switcher — ⌘K
Type part of a session’s name, directory or branch and land in it. Each match shows its folder; one that needs you adds what it is about, or its status when there is nothing more to say, and how long it has waited. Sessions inside a collapsed group are listed like any other.
Command Palette — ⌘⇧P
The app’s actions, searchable, with the shortcut beside those that have one — and your sessions, so it doubles as the switcher when you cannot remember which you wanted. It also reaches a few things with no key of their own, like toggling the resource bar or opening Profiles.
Search every scrollback — ⌘⇧F
Searches the output of every open session at once, with a hit count and a matching line for each. Useful for “which of these printed that error”.
⌘F searches the focused terminal only.
Session Overview — ⌘↩
Zooms out to one live tile per session, each with its status and a rolling preview — the conversation for a Claude session, the last lines of output for a shell. Click a tile to land in it, escape to go back.
Walking in order
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌥⌘↑ / ⌥⌘↓ | Previous / next session |
| ⌥⌘← / ⌥⌘→ | Previous / next group |
| ⌘1–9 | Focus by position |
The arrows follow the order the sidebar is showing, so they stay right when sessions needing you float to the top, and they step over collapsed groups. ⌘1–9 count in the list’s own order instead, which is the order sessions were opened and dragged into, so with groups or floating in play a number does not always match the row’s place on screen.
From outside Fleet — ⌃⌥⌘↩
Spawns a session running whatever you type, from any app, with no Fleet window open. Useful when the thought arrives while you are somewhere else. It can be switched off under Settings → Terminal, and ⌃⌥⌘N opens the same panel from inside Fleet.
Something here wrong or missing? help@fleet-terminal.app.