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And I'm here to say that it has completely changed the way I use my Mac.

QS is indeed extremely powerful, but even after several months, I still couldn't completely grok it to the point where I felt that its productivity gains were worth the time it takes to completely harness all its features.

#Launchbar address mac

I tried QS for several months, after seeing it mentioned on dozens of Mac geek blogs as if it was created by God or something. QS question is a total religious war on par with Emacs vs. It's that significant a paradigm shift in the way you interact with your OS. Now, I simply can't use a Mac that doesn't have either LaunchBar or Quicksilver installed on it. I think its completely useless, in fact.Īt first, I (like angrymodem) thought these "launcher" apps seemed "pretty useless." But then I actually sat down and actually used them for awhile. Spotlight-in almost all regards-is highly inferior to either Launchbar or Quicksilver. Posted by easyas圓k at 9:13 PM on September 28, 2005 Spotlight is all about finding crap that could be anywhere slooowly. I don't think you can do that with LB, but I haven't used LB that much, as I've said. And if you really need spotlight, you can call it from within QS. Most of the workflows given above you can do with Launchbar, it's just a bit more complicated.Īnyways: QS - More extensible, actually has a developer community, and is free. Quicksilver you just type the action abbreviation.Įverything you can do with Quicksilver you can do with Launchbar, but that's just like saying everything you can do with Launchbar you can do with iTunes/Finder/Safari/etc to a lesser degree. Launchbar binds every item's three actions to the same three keys, but the actions vary per item. > VLC" for example, but Quicksilver is still going to be more extensible and easier to use various actions. Both can do the workflow "Find AVI -> Open With. Launchbar has actions, but only 3 per item (or at least that's what it looks like - I don't use, I just got it quick). QS: Find an app on a disk image and copy it to somewhere else. QS: Find a text file and append a line you inserted into QS to it. LB: Find a text file and open it to edit it QS: Browse through your iTunes library and upload a song using transmit to your web site (my favorite workflow) LB: Browse through your iTunes library to play a song Quicksilver is all about finding things and performing actions with them. Posted by majick at 6:55 PM on September 28, 2005 QuickSilver has a great price and nifty eye candy, and Spotlight is built right in, but you'll pry my LaunchBar from my cold, dead hands. LaunchBar's ability to learn how you want to find your stuff is it's killer feature. Quite a few of these features are missing from QuickSilver, most notably the adaptive shortcut feature.

Spotlight is basically LaunchBar with all the usefulness drained out of it.

Spotlight doesn't learn initialisms as search shortcuts.

Spotlight lacks the "Find items by kind" features of LaunchBar.

Spotlight doesn't allow file manipulation (although "Smart Folders" mitigates this somewhat.

Spotlight doesn't have a web search interface.

Spotlight finds all kinds of random and usually useless files (unless strictly configured).

Spotlight doesn't index browser histories, bookmark lists, the iTunes database, or the iPhoto database.

The Spotlight UI is annoying (and ridiculously slow!) and lacks almost all of LaunchBar's features.

I'm tempted to disable Spotlight completely in /etc/hostconfig because it's so inferior. I've tried the others, and I always come back to LaunchBar.LaunchBar wins hands-down. Quite simply, LaunchBar is one of my absolutely essential applications. It comes with a slew of search engines built in, and adding your own is simple. Do you use search engines? LaunchBar will let you create searches right from within itself. LaunchBar also has a built-in calculator and clipboard history. Or maybe you have an image that normally opens with Preview but you want to edit it in Pixelmator Instant Send makes it easier and quicker. If you 'open with' your mail client, it will create a new message with the file attached. Using the "Instant Send" feature, I can select a file in Finder, then trigger LaunchBar and press "Command" twice (you can choose from several key commands to trigger Instant Send), and LaunchBar will offer to open the file in whatever application I search for next, similar to if you had right clicked on the file, chosen 'Open With' but your hands never touched the mouse.