Horse has Back and Forward controls in the toolbar. They travel through the current page’s navigation history and across the visible Trail when appropriate.
That answer is less dramatic than it once was. Earlier versions of Horse asked Trails® to do nearly all of this work, which was philosophically interesting right up until somebody simply wanted to go back one page. The buttons are here. Civilization continues.
Four ways to go back or forward
- Choose Back or Forward in the toolbar.
- Use ⌘+[ for Back.
- Use ⌘+] for Forward.
- Select a visible page in the Trail when that is the context you want.
The right choice depends on what “back” means in that moment:
- Use the toolbar or shortcut to retrace navigation within the current sequence.
- Select a visible Trail page when you want to return to a specific branch of the task.
- Collapse a Trail when you want the whole branch out of sight without deleting it.
Trails® reduce the need to reconstruct a path from one long Back stack because pages opened as branches remain visible in the sidebar. The toolbar controls handle the cases a visible tree cannot fully express, including same-page application navigation, redirects, and a sequence you want to retrace immediately.
Back is not undelete
For a deleted Trail, use Undo Delete Trail or ⌘+⇧+T. See the undelete guide.