The field

Everything in Veb starts in one field. ⌘T opens it over the page for somewhere new, and ⌘L opens it with this page’s address. Type an address and you go there; type words and you search; type a few letters and it finds what you mean.

What it finds#

• Open tabs, in every window. ↩ switches to the tab instead of opening it twice.
• Pages you have been to, the ones you went to on purpose first, and the address it thinks you mean, filled in after your letters. ⇥ takes it.
• Commands, such as Reading Mode, Split View or Pin Tab, and Settings pages, by name.
• Answers: sums, units, currencies, times and dates.
• Quick Actions, a match from your clipboard history, and a search for your words when they aren’t an address.
• Under your words, in order: the search, Ask Claude, answered right in the field, and Task for Claude, a task in tabs of its own (ChatGPT, if your tasks run there); then up to three open or visited pages, then four suggestions from your search engine. What the words read as comes first: a question puts Ask on top, how long to boil an egg, and a task the task, find flights to lisbon.
• Files: type a path such as ~/Downloads/report.pdf and the file opens.
• Open Mail, with Mail on, and Back to Your Tabs while you are in it.

With text selected on the page, ⌘T lists the selection’s commands first. A row with a shortcut shows it at its end.

With nothing typed, the field shows what you’re likely to want now: a link you just copied, your next meeting, recent tabs and the sites you open most.

⇧⌘F keeps the row you are on under Favorites in the empty field, and again takes it off. ⌥⌘↑ and ⌥⌘↓ move a favorite up and down.

Keys#

After ⌘L, ↩ opens in this tab; after ⌘T, in a new one. After ⌘L, before you type, the field offers this page’s own actions: Copy Link, Copy Markdown Link and Duplicate Tab.

Actions#

The foot of the field shows what ↩ will do and Actions ⌘K. Press it for everything you can do with the row you are on: copy its link, open it in the background, close a tab, move it here, forget a page. The actions list has a search of its own.

Places#

Some lists live inside the field. Type the start of a place’s name and press ⇥, or use its key. Inside, ⌘P changes the filter and esc goes back.

In a private tab#

The field turns dark and says Nothing here is kept. The empty field lists nothing, your search engine suggests nothing, no clips are offered, and nothing you type is remembered.