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Emoji, colours and other tools

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Mochi includes several small tools: an emoji picker, a colour picker, a process viewer, a file browser, and a mode for cleaning your keyboard.

Emoji and symbols

Type emoji: or e: followed by a common name. Terms such as happy, lol, shrug, party and fire work, as well as official names. Press ↩ to copy the emoji.

Set a default skin tone in the picker. It is applied wherever you copy an emoji from, including the search results and the actions menu.

The colour picker

  1. Press ⌥⇧P

    The screen freezes and a magnifier follows your pointer.

  2. Move to the pixel you want and click

    The colour is copied to your clipboard. Press ⎋ to cancel.

Processes and ports

Type kill followed by a search term to list running processes. Select one and press ↩ to quit it. Searching by port is useful when a port is in use and you do not know which process has it.

kill :3000

The process listening on port 3000

kill port 5432

The same search, written out

kill node

Processes named node

kill 4821

Matches on name, process ID and port

Browsing files

Type f: followed by a name to search files and folders. Press ⌘Y to preview the selected file, or ⌘K for actions such as copying its path or revealing it in Finder.

Clean Keys

Clean Keys disables your keyboard so you can wipe it without typing anything. Open it from the menu bar under Tools. Your mouse or trackpad keeps working, and a card appears on each screen showing that the mode is active and how many keypresses have been blocked.

  • The mode ends after two minutes. The ring on the card shows the time left, and you can extend it from the card.
  • Click the card, or click Stop, to end it at any time.
  • Your screens will not sleep while it is running.
  • It cannot start while a password field is active, and it tells you so.
  • The function row is disabled too, so wiping across the top of the keyboard does not change the brightness or open Mission Control.

The menu bar

Click the Mochi icon in the menu bar to open a panel with system information at the top and all commands below it: screen capture, both editors, recent screenshots and recordings, the tools above, and Settings. Use the arrow keys to move through it, or ⌘1 to ⌘9 to run a command directly. The icon turns into a red dot while a recording is in progress.