Quick Search

Two commands and a bookmark system, covering everything that ends up in a browser.

Search Internet

Sends whatever you typed to your search engine. Choose it under Settings → Plugins → Quick Search:

Google (the default), DuckDuckGo, Bing, Brave and Ecosia are built in. Custom takes a URL template of your own, with %s where the query goes:

https://example.com/search?q=%s

Search Internet is one of the default pinned commands, so it stays in the results no matter what you type. Anything you type that nothing else claims can always be sent to the web.

Open URL

Recognises when what you typed is an address and offers to open it, so github.com/pivit goes straight there rather than through a search.

Bangs

Prefix a query with ! and a trigger to send it to a specific site instead of your search engine. !yt synthwave searches YouTube, !w typescript goes to Wikipedia.

Pivit ships with the full DuckDuckGo bang list — thousands of sites, already there, nothing to configure.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks turn your own sites into commands, under Settings → Plugins → Quick Search → Bookmarks. Each has a name and a URL, and two optional pieces:

• A bang. Give a bookmark the bang gh and typing !gh jumps to it. Your own bangs take precedence over the built-in list, so you can override one.
• %s in the URL. This turns the bookmark into a search rather than a plain link. https://github.com/search?q=%s makes !gh effect ts a GitHub search; without %s, !gh just opens the page.

Every bookmark also appears as a normal command in the bar, findable by name, so you do not have to remember the bang.

Settings

All three sync across devices if you have cloud sync on.