Zoxide

zoxide is a smarter cd: it remembers the directories you use and lets you jump to one by typing part of its name. z proj lands you in the projects folder you visit most, and zi opens an fzf picker when you're not sure. It's free, MIT-licensed, one Rust binary.

Install with brew install zoxide, winget install ajeetdsouza.zoxide or the install script, then add one line such as eval "$(zoxide init zsh)" to the end of your shell config. Bash, Zsh, Fish, PowerShell, Nushell, Elvish, Tcsh, Xonsh and any POSIX shell are covered. Coming from z, autojump, fasd or zsh-z, zoxide import brings your history along. The database is a small file in your user data folder. No paid tier, no service, no account: free for one person or a whole engineering org.

The catch: it only knows where you've been, so the first week feels like plain cd. Ranking weights recent visits heavily, so a folder you lived in last month can lose to one you touched an hour ago; add a second keyword (z foo bar) or use zi to pick. On Debian and Ubuntu, skip apt: the README warns those packages update very slowly.