zoxide

You need to use z instead of cd normally for a while at first to train up zoxide to then make more powerful navigation possible.

As you navigate around with z, zoxide will analyse your activity and assign weights to certain directory paths. The weighting is a function of frequency (number of visits) and recency (when last visited).

Once a path becomes frequently accessed enough, you can navigate to it using path fragments.

E.g. z projects foo can navigate you to ~/Projects/blah/foo if that path has the highest weighting out of all candidate paths that "projects foo" may match to.

• The matching rules are:

  • projects must appear before foo in the path.
  • foo must be the last directory in the path.

• z - — return to the previous directory.

Fzf Integration

Also see fzf, an independent tool that Zoxide has great integration with. When you have fzf, you can run zi to then view a list of the highest weighting paths and fuzzy finding the right destination.