A floating hotbox-style panel that lists all bookmarked nodes in your Nuke script and navigates to them instantly.
Nuke has a native bookmark system — any node can be flagged as a bookmark via its properties panel. The built-in J shortcut cycles through them one by one. Bookmark Navigator gives you a visual panel with all bookmarks at once, filterable and searchable, with starred favorites pinned to the top.
- Floating panel — appears at your cursor position, just like Nuke's hotbox
- All bookmark types — reads the native
bookmarkknob, works with any node class (Backdrop, Read, Write, Merge, custom gizmos, etc.) - Search / filter — type to filter the list in real time
- Starred favorites — pin important bookmarks to the top of the list; stars are saved per-project inside the
.nkfile and travel with your script - Right-click context menu — navigate, select node, or toggle star without opening the panel fully
- Toggle shortcut — a configurable shortcut to enable/disable the bookmark knob on any selected node directly from the keyboard
- Per-user settings — panel width, sort order, zoom level, filter bar toggle, all saved to
~/.nuke/bookmark_navigator_prefs.json - Settings dialog — configure everything from inside Nuke via
Edit > Bookmark Navigator > Settings
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Press Alt+B while the Node Graph is active. The panel appears at your cursor.
Click any bookmark in the list to center the Node Graph on that node. Press Enter to jump to the first result in the current filtered view.
Type in the search bar to filter bookmarks by name or node class. The list updates instantly.
Click the ☆ icon on any row to star it. Starred bookmarks move to the top of the list, separated by a divider from the rest. Stars are stored in a hidden knob on the script root, so they are saved with your .nk file.
Right-click any bookmark row for quick actions: navigate to it, select the node in the graph without navigating, or toggle its starred state.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Alt+B |
Open the panel |
ESC |
Close the panel |
Enter |
Navigate to the first result |
| Click outside | Close the panel |
Go to Edit > Bookmark Navigator > Settings and set a shortcut in the Toggle bookmark on selected node field (e.g. ctrl+alt+b). With one or more nodes selected, pressing that shortcut will enable or disable their bookmark knob instantly.
Any node in Nuke has a bookmark knob. To enable it:
- Select the node and open its properties panel (
Enter) - Look for the bookmark flag icon at the top of the panel (same area as the node color and tile controls)
- Enable it — the node is now visible in Bookmark Navigator
| Nuke version | Python | Qt binding |
|---|---|---|
| 12 and above | Python 3 | PySide2 |
1. Copy bookmark_navigator.py to your .nuke folder or to any folder already on your Nuke Python path.
~/.nuke/bookmark_navigator.py
2. Add the following lines to your existing ~/.nuke/menu.py:
import bookmark_navigator
nuke.menu('Nuke').addCommand(
'Edit/Bookmark Navigator/Show',
bookmark_navigator.show,
'alt+b'
)
nuke.menu('Nuke').addCommand(
'Edit/Bookmark Navigator/Settings',
bookmark_navigator.show_settings
)3. Restart Nuke (or source your menu.py).
Open Edit > Bookmark Navigator > Settings to configure:
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Panel width | Width of the floating panel in pixels | 320 |
| Max visible rows | Rows shown before the list scrolls | 14 |
| Sort bookmarks by | Name (A–Z), Node type, or Position in script | Name |
| Zoom level on navigate | Zoom factor applied when centering on a node | 1.0 |
| Show filter bar | Toggle the search input at the top of the panel | On |
| Toggle bookmark shortcut | Keyboard shortcut to toggle bookmark on selected nodes | ctrl+alt+b |
Settings are saved per user to ~/.nuke/bookmark_navigator_prefs.json.
bookmark_navigator.py # main script — copy this to your .nuke folder
menu.py # snippet to add to your existing menu.py
Eduardo Brandao
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