Mac launchbar10/13/2023 ![]() ![]() I made life easier by creating two simple AppleScripts (saved as applications) to mount and unmount the shares that I normally access, and just launch the scripts from LaunchBar. I’d go to Finder, Press command-K, connect to the server, select the shares, and then have to close a half dozen finder tabs that opened once the volumes mounted. It used to be a pain to connect and disconnect. I connect to some network volumes at home. I use it dozens of times throughout the day. Voila! Your browser gets the focus, and your search is executed. After all, how hard is it to press command-L and type a search in Safari? But if you have multiple monitors and your browser is lost or buried on one, you invoke LaunchBar, type the shortcut, press enter, enter your query, and press return. For example, I have created search queries to search all my most used websites directly from LaunchBar. LaunchBar makes doing so many things easy and w/o having to take your fingers off the keyboard. I’m in the diehard LaunchBar camp, and Instant Send is one of my favorite super powers. But, overall Alfred is a much better fit for me, for now at least. There are a few things I miss from LaunchBar, most notably the Instant Send feature. ![]() ![]() There’s also an extensive library of Workflows to draw from, including ones from Alfred and ones from users. Workflows open up all kinds of possibilities and are generally very straight forward to implement.While I can understand the power user value of the timed typing, it never really stuck for me.While the LaunchBar team has maintained macOS compatibility over the years, Alfred appears to be in more active development.In fact, there still isn’t any documentation specific to LaunchBar 6, even though it released in 2014. Alfred’s documentation is much better.There are ways to sync LaunchBar settings, but they’re clunky and not officially supported. Being able to sync between the two is very helpful. I have two Macs (and iMac and a MacBook Pro).Fixed an issue causing arrow key navigation to fail once, immediately after press Command-Right.I recently switched to Alfred after using LaunchBar for many years.Fixed: Accessing contact notes didn’t work on macOS Ventura.Updated icons of bookmarks and bookmark folders.Improved Action Editor to preserve custom entries in an action’s ist.Improved handling of custom script actions which are returning items that are referring to a file.Shortcuts are now displayed with the icon that has been defined in Shortcuts.app.If a shortcut accepts files as an input, it’s now possible to send those files to the shortcut via Send-to (select a file in LaunchBar, press Tab, select the shortcut, hit Return).Start applications, open documents, invoke system services, compose emails, or navigate the Web–LaunchBar will be your essential servant. You just hit Command-Space to bring LaunchBar’s input window to front, enter an arbitrary abbreviation, and as soon as you start typing LaunchBar displays the best matching choices, ready to be opened immediately. ![]() It provides instant access to your applications, documents, contacts, and bookmarks, to your music library, to search engines and more, just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item’s name. LaunchBar is an award-winning productivity utility that offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to search and access any kind of information stored on your computer or on the Web. ![]()
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