Sketch Wanderer Plugin

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December 8, 2019

A small SketchApp extension that introduce frictionless Finder like navigation in layer list by using beloved arrow keys and simple shortcuts. No more shift/shift-tab nightmare!

Huge thanks to Sasha Okunev who inspired me to build this plugin! 🙂

Install with Sketch Runner

With Sketch Runner, just go to the install command and search for Wanderer. Runner allows you to manage plugins and do much more to speed up your workflow in Sketch. Download Runner here.

Manual Installation

Download the plugin.
Unpack the archive and double click on Wanderer.sketchplugin file to install it into Sketch plugins folder.
Enjoy! 🙂

Usage

Wanderer is very simple to use, just recall how navigation works in Finder and use any arrow keys with control-option modifiers.

The complete list of supported commands:

Command	Shortcut	Description
Move Up	`ctrl` + `option` + `↑`	Selects layer above
Move Down	`ctrl` + `option` + `↓`	Selects layer below
Expand Group	`ctrl` + `option` + `→`	Expands selected group, shape group or artboard
Collapse Group	`ctrl` + `option` + `←`	Collapses selected group, shape group or artboard. When run on already collapsed group, it’s parent will be collapsed.
Select Up	`ctrl` + `shift` + `↑`	Finder like multi-select by holding shift and selecting files via arrows.
Select Down	`ctrl` + `shift` + `↓`	Finder like multi-select by holding shift and selecting files via arrows.
Expand Artboard	`ctrl` + `shift` + `→`	Expands all child groups in the current artboard.
Collapse Artboard	`ctrl` + `shift` + `←`	Collapses all child groups in the current artboard and artboard itself.
Select Artboard Above	`ctrl` + `option` + `shift` + `↑`	Selects artboard above current arboard. In case some child layer is selected, this command will select artboard itself.
Select Artboard Below	`ctrl` + `option` + `shift` + `↓`	Selects artboard below current artboard.

Simple Shortcuts Schema & Mission Control

By default Wanderer uses control-option+arrows shortcuts for the most common commands like Move Up, Move Down and Expand/Collapse Group:

It’s quite nice, but not perfect – the better solution is to use shorter set control+arrows, which is by default occupied by macOS: Mission Control. Just in case you don’t use these shortcuts, you could quickly replace them by using a special command by doing these simple steps:

Open System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Mission Control and disable the following highlighted system shortcuts:

In Sketch select Plugins -> Wanderer -> Shortcuts Schema -> control+arrows command:

Wait 10-15 seconds while Sketch reloading changes and check whether new shortcuts are setup correctly:

Note: In case you’ll need to revert changes, just run Plugins -> Wanderer -> Shortcuts Schema -> control-option+arrows command.

Version history

Wanderer – 1.0.1: 3/16/2018

Sketch 49 support
New plugins auto-updating system support

Wanderer 1.0.0: 12/5/2016

First version

Feedback

If you discover any issue or have any suggestions for improvement of the plugin, please open an issue or find me on twitter @turbobabr.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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