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For (relevant) prior art, see Notational Velocity (which appears to have successors in various states, nvAlt and nvUltra).

There's also Alfred, Quicksilver and Enso



Additionally, Superhuman seems to be doubling down on this approach for their productivity inbox and VS Code has this type of input/UI available with Cmd-P. Spacemacs kind of does this when helping you navigate emacs modes.

It's a fantastic marriage of traditional search box feature discovery and keyboard shortcuts.


These are the places where we got our inspiration from :) But we couldn't find any relevant attempts to implement something like this in a browser, especially for non-technical users.




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