Search and shortcuts

Surrealist offers a range of shortcuts to help you navigate the interface more efficiently. You can find a list of all available shortcuts by pressing Ctrl + K or Cmd + K on your keyboard.

In the search modal, you can access all available shortcuts for open sessions, the views, all available tables in your connect database and the settings dialog.

Options	Description
`Connections`	Open a list of all available connections and create a new connection type.
`Views`	Open all available views in the current session. This can be the Query view, Designer view or the authentication view.
`Tables`	Shows all available tables in the connected database. If you have no tables in the connection load the surreal deal dataset, you can see the tables in the dataset.
`Query`	See all saved queries, view the query history and create a new query. Comment out a line in the query editor using `Cmd + /` or `Ctrl + /`.
`Explorer`	Import and export your database schema in a `.surql` file format.
`Authentication`	Create user permissions and roles for your connected database.
`API Docs`	Access the SurrealDB API documentation and access snippets for your queries in different SDK languages.
`Settings`	Access the settings dialog to customise the appearance and behaviour of Surrealist. Increase the view size of your editor with `cmd + Option + +` or reduce with `cmd + Option + -`.
`Navigator`	Reload the navigator to see all available shortcuts and open the search modal.
`Developer`	Open a new connection and reset tour settings.