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Power mode: the ⌥ Alt reveal & latch

Jun 2026 · 3 min read

Open Linkman and you get almost nothing: a search bar and your links. No toolbars, no row of buttons, no stats bar. That calm is on purpose — most of the time you're either searching or opening something, and everything else is noise.

The rest of the interface is one keypress away. Hold (Option / Alt) and the chrome fades in:

Let go and it all tucks away again. If you want it to stay open — say you're tidying up and reaching for edit/delete a lot — double-tap ⌥ to latch it on. Double-tap again to drop back to the minimal view.

The lock

A small lock in the lower-left corner shows whether the latch is on (lit) or off (dim). Click it to toggle, or open the command palette with ⌘K and run Lock / Unlock Alt mode — three ways to the same switch.

Keyboard all the way down

Alt mode pairs with a vim-style keyboard model, so you rarely need the mouse: j/k move, o or opens, e edits, d deletes, 09 jump to a link, and n starts a new one. Type @ to filter by collection, # by site, or hit ⌘K to jump to anything.

Try it — open Linkman