zoxide
A smarter cd command that remembers frequently used directories and jumps to them.
Liked for quick, fuzzy jumping between frequently used directories1234, and some commenters call it one of their most-used tools.56 The one caveat raised is that parent directories of a deep path are not indexed unless you cd into each one.7
Why people recommend it
Quick navigation · 3
Commenters say it moves between directories quickly and is faster than an alternative cd shortcut.
“intelligent cd to move between directories incredibly quickly”
“I use Zoxide to replace the alt+d cd shortcut as it's much faster”
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“I have been a very big fan of zoxide.”
Daily habit · 2
Users call it one of their most used tools and say they miss it on systems without it.
“I have been a very big fan of zoxide.”
Fits terminal setups · 3
It is listed alongside tools like tmux, neovim, fish and starship in preferred terminal setups.
“Fish, zoxide, tmux, helix, ripgrep, fd-find, htop. There are many more, but these are the ones that I enjoy using.”
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Fuzzy matching · 1
One user jumps around their system fuzzily, including on remote systems with it installed.
“Big fan of gron[0] and zoxide[1]”
Caveats and dissent
Index gaps · 1
Jumping straight into a deep path does not add its parent directories to the database.
“Also nice for when I use Zoxide to CD into a deep nested directory.”
Often compared with
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Also written as Zoxide. Data: zoxide.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“Also nice for when I use Zoxide to CD into a deep nested directory.”
“zoxide is also probably my most used tool”
“Big fan of gron[0] and zoxide[1]”
“using vifm with some zoxide/fzf extra commands”
“Fish, zoxide, tmux, helix, ripgrep, fd-find, htop. There are many more, but these are the ones that I enjoy using.”
“intelligent cd to move between directories incredibly quickly”
“I have been a very big fan of zoxide.”
“zoxide for the a command”
“I use Zoxide to replace the alt+d cd shortcut as it's much faster”
“I use WezTerm, tmux, neovim, Zoxide”