Sidebar, search, and keyboard shortcuts

Everything in Brick is one click from the left sidebar or one keystroke from the command palette.

The sidebar#

The top of the sidebar holds your main pages: Inbox, Tasks, Contacts, and Deals. Inbox carries a number: how many conversations are still open. Tasks carries one too: open tasks due today or overdue.

Every row is a real link, so you can also hold ⌘ (or Ctrl) and click to open a page in a new tab.

At the bottom of the sidebar is a row of small icons: your account, contact support, submit feedback, the light and dark theme switch, and Settings.

To give the page more room, press ⌘. to collapse the sidebar. While it is collapsed, move your mouse to the left edge of the screen and it slides back out. You can also drag the sidebar's right edge to make it wider or narrower, and double-click that edge to put it back to normal.

Favourites#

Star anything you keep coming back to and it appears in the Favourites section of the sidebar. You can favourite a page, a contact, a deal, a saved view, a list, a chat, or a note.

The star button sits on record pages, hover cards, list pages, and chats. Everywhere else, look for Add to favourites in the ⋯ menu.

Once you have a few, hover the Favourites heading and click the button that appears to make a folder. Folders are one level deep. Drag rows to reorder them, or to move them in and out of a folder.

Lists and chats#

Below Favourites, the Lists section shows the five lists you touched most recently, with a + to create another. Once you have more than five, an All lists row opens the full set with its own search box. See Lists.

The Chats section works the same way for your five newest Ask Brick chats. See Help and support.

Search and the command palette#

Press ⌘K anywhere to open the command palette. Pressing / opens it too, as long as you are not typing in a field, and the Search chip at the top of the sidebar does the same.

Start typing and Brick shows, in order: pages, saved views and lists that match the name; quick actions such as Add Contact, Add Deal, Create task and Create note; and then your records: contacts and deals. Highlight a row with the arrow keys to preview it on the right, and press Enter to open it.

Press Tab to switch the palette from Search to Ask, which sends what you typed to Ask Brick.

Keyboard shortcuts#

• ⌘K opens the command palette. ⌘. collapses or expands the sidebar.
• C creates a record while a table has focus (Contacts, Deals, Tasks).
• Space peeks at the focused row without leaving the page. Enter opens it properly.
• ⌘A (Ctrl+A on Windows) selects everything loaded on the page. Esc clears the selection.
• Z undoes the last action, while its toast is still on screen.
• ? opens the Help drawer from anywhere.
• In the Inbox: j and k move, Enter opens, e closes, Shift+E reopens, x selects, c starts a new email.
• ⌘Enter submits a form. Esc backs out one layer at a time.