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#Alfred or launchbar for mac#
#Alfred or launchbar mac os#

The latter is especially useful when going through mail: having a message selected, invoking the autofill shortcut for Things will pre-populate the new item dialog with a reference to the message, any selected text and the message subject. Awesome. I most often use ⌃⌥ Space for adding a new, blank item every so often I use ⌃⇧⌥ Space for creating a new item based on my current context. I am a big fan of Things as my To Do application, and I’ve got two keyboard shortcuts set up for quickly adding new items to my inbox. But when I have a particular track or album in mind, I use CoverSutra to queue it. I still very much prefer to browse my music collection in iTunes itself – it’s easier to visually browse album covers when you haven’t decided yet what you want to listen to. I have set up ⌘~ to activate the search box, in which I can use tab to filter my search results to artists, albums or songs. I use CoverSutra to control iTunes and search my iTunes library. Since I launch the same apps often, it usually gets it right after one or two characters. When I am looking for preference panes or just applications, I just start typing its name. I also often use the ⌘↵ shortcut for opening the enclosing folder of a found item, rather than the item itself.

define:word to look up “word” in the dictionary.

kind:message to look for Mail messages.

kind:contact to look up information from my address book.

kind:folder to jump to a folder buried deeply somewhere on my filesystem.

It is quickly activated with ⌘ Space or ⌘⌥ Space for expanded mode. It is both quick and accurate enough, assuming I use keyword-based search filters.

#Alfred or launchbar mac os#

I use Mac OS X’s own Spotlight feature both for file search and as an application launcher. My global keyboard shortcuts setup Spotlight But I’ve got other, dedicated services set up to handle this stuff for me. Not because I don’t need to perform these tasks, nor because I don’t care about speed or prefer to use the mouse. I have installed it several times, but never actually used it. It looks nice, is light-weight and works as advertised. It’s a productivity application that lets you open a command prompt with a global keyboard shortcut, so you can type commands to open files, browse the web, control iTunes and so on.

#Alfred or launchbar for mac#

These applications are supposedly critical for Mac power users, so I tried them all.

“Install Quicksilver” was the first advice many people gave me when I first switched to a Mac.