zoxide

zoxide is a command line tool that works as a smarter version of cd. It remembers the folders you use and lets you jump to them with a short partial name.

Each time you change directory, zoxide records the visit and ranks folders by how often and how recently you used them. Typing z followed by part of a name moves you to the best match. It installs as a small binary plus a short shell integration, so the rest of your shell works as before.

• Learns the directories you visit most often
• Jump with a few keystrokes using partial names
• Works with bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell and nushell
• Interactive selection when several folders match
• Shell integration that keeps cd behaviour unchanged

Developers and sysadmins who move between many project folders in a terminal. It helps most when the same folders are visited again and again.

zoxide is open source under the MIT license and free to install. It is available for macOS, Linux and Windows, and installs through common package managers. The first few uses take some time to build history, so the jumps become more accurate over time.