Celerity Search: Navigate URLs, Shortcuts, and the Web

Use the Celerity search bar to navigate to URLs, trigger site-specific searches, and fall back to Google when nothing else matches.

The search bar is the heart of Celerity. Open any new tab, start typing, and Celerity instantly resolves your input — navigating to a URL, launching a shortcut, searching within a site, or falling back to Google — all without touching the mouse.

Opening and closing the search bar

Any character keypress on a new tab page opens the search bar and places the character you typed directly into the input field. Celerity will not intercept keystrokes while a modal (settings, help, feedback, or confirmation) is open, or while the cursor is already inside a text input or editable element.

Press Escape at any time to close the search bar and return to the shortcut grid.

The settings, help, and feedback buttons in the top-right corner are hidden while the search bar is open. They reappear when you close it.

How Celerity resolves your input

When you press Enter, Celerity evaluates your input in a fixed priority order:

1. Direct URL

   If your input looks like a URL (e.g. github.com or https://example.com), Celerity navigates there immediately. A missing https:// prefix is added automatically — you never need to type the protocol.

2. Exact shortcut key

   If your input exactly matches a shortcut key (e.g. g), Celerity opens that shortcut’s site.

3. Shortcut key + space + query

   If your input is a shortcut key followed by a space and a query (e.g. y lofi music), Celerity performs a site-specific search by substituting your query into that shortcut’s searchTemplate. The delimiter between the key and the query is always a single space.

4. Google fallback

   If none of the above match, Celerity sends your input to Google Search: https://www.google.com/search?q={}.

Live autocomplete suggestions

As you type, Celerity fetches up to 4 autocomplete suggestions and displays them below the input field. When you are typing a site-specific search (e.g. y lo), each suggestion is automatically prefixed with the shortcut key so selecting it triggers a site search rather than a web search.

Navigating suggestions

The available navigation keys depend on whether focus is on the text input or on a suggestion item.

From the text input:

Action	Keys
Move to next suggestion	↓ Tab Ctrl+N
Move to previous suggestion	↑ Shift+Tab Ctrl+P

From a focused suggestion:

Action	Keys
Next suggestion	↓ → Tab Ctrl+N
Previous suggestion	↑ ← Shift+Tab Ctrl+P
Select focused suggestion	Enter or click
Return focus to input	Navigate past the first or last suggestion

← and → are only available for suggestion navigation once a suggestion item is already focused. From the text input, use ↓ / ↑, Tab / Shift+Tab, or Ctrl+N / Ctrl+P to move into the suggestions list.

Example inputs

The table below shows common inputs and what Celerity does with each one.

Input	Result
g	Opens Gmail inbox
y javascript tutorial	Searches YouTube for “javascript tutorial”
gh react	Searches GitHub for “react”
s lofi hip hop	Searches Spotify for “lofi hip hop”
github.com	Navigates to https://github.com
what is rust lang	Google search for “what is rust lang”

URL navigation

Type any bare domain or full URL and press Enter — Celerity recognises the pattern and navigates directly without treating it as a search. The URL regex matches hostnames with optional ports and paths:

github.com            → https://github.com
docs.example.com/api  → https://docs.example.com/api
https://localhost:3000 → https://localhost:3000

https:// is prepended automatically unless a protocol is already present. Any scheme is accepted (including ftp:// and chrome://), so custom browser URLs pass through unchanged.