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Picking Elements

Two ways to start picking, several elements at once, and how to back out.

Start picking

Pick whichever fits what you're doing:

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LauncherClick in a corner.Until you pause it or close the launcher.
Alt keyHold Alt (⌥ Option on a Mac).Only while you hold the key. Good for a quick pick while you use your app.

Either way, selection mode starts: an outline follows your cursor, and clicking an element opens its note panel instead of reaching your app.

Pick several elements

For a request about more than one element, such as "make these two buttons match":

  1. Click the first element. The note panel opens.
  2. Shift+click each other element. Each gets an outline, and a chip in the panel's header: h3.title Home.jsx:36.
  3. To take one off (even the first, as long as one is left), Shift+click it again or press its chip's ×.
Two buttons selected, each outlined, with one note panel: chips span.btn Home.jsx:17 and span.btn Home.jsx:22, and the typed request Make these two buttons match

Hover a chip to light up its element on the page.

Back out with Esc

Each press closes one thing, front first:

  1. the note panel, the notes list or Settings (whichever you used last)
  2. the other one, if it's open
  3. selection mode (the launcher stays open, paused)

When panels overlap, click the one behind to bring it to the front.

Next

Notes: edit, delete and find your notes.

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