![]() If they just provided a graphic that counts down the remaining time, it would help a lot psychologically because you wouldn’t have to think about it, just continue operating your keyboard like a robot, which is what I do for the kind of dumb repetitive tasks that LB helps with. I’m an accurate touch-typist, but when my laptop is positioned badly in relation to the height of my chair, I make a lot more typos. For me, the only real problem I ever have with LB is that damn timeout: set it short, and it’s too short set it long, and you have to wait an eternity for your typos to clear before re-typing. I thought I should review Alfred again in detail to prepare for the worst, and I found this forum. I just noticed, though, that the LB forum at Objective Development has been removed, so I panicked. I don’t have a problem, I guess, if LB just stays in maintenance mode with no new development. I use a combination of Alfred and Launchbar simultaneously. It serves me well and I didn’t find I needed any alternatives.Įh? I use LaunchBar’s calculator several times per day, and it’s a super convenience I miss in Alfred: you just activate LB and press ‘=’. I think I invoke Alfred tons of time a week doing the above. I also use it to quickly create emoji to be included in emails and chats (again a workflow). I also use Alfred for simple arithmetic calculations and, unit conversion (with a workflow). #LAUNCHBAR VS ALFRED FULL#(Later I even made some more donation because it was so useful and essentially replaces a secretary about 20–40 percent of full time.)ĭisclaimer: I am not connected to the company in any way. After some testing I judged Alfred’s potential so high that I payed a one-time fee for the Powerpack version. I must admit though that another contributing factor for all this use of Alfred was that it appeared at the right time when I had been using QuickSilver and other tools for some time but was looking for upgrades. The only time I resort to Keyboard Maestro is for workflows that depend heavily on keystrokes, waiting times, and detecting certain states of apps or environment. Logitech’s Spotlight, and easy to create more actions on the fly (or in the deep) and more… I haven’t found many things I wasn’t able to create an easy solution for in Alfred. ![]() turning on/off lamps, automatic GTD routines, easy access to ‘hot apps’ and ‘hot paths’, scripted integration between Drafts and Notes, remapping of some keys for precise but easy actions, auto logins, references, various ‘tool kits’ for different applications, toggling WiFi, Bluetooth, connecting AirPods)-and a number of custom searches (spanning encyclopedias, services, a number of e-mail templates using the mailto: protocol), easy navigation of hard drive (including the part organized according to Dewey Decimal Classification), mathematical/statistical computations (using Python libraries), integration with devices s.a. The main reason I haven’t installed it though is that Alfred has turned out to be VERY customizable and easy to use together with other apps e.g. Sorry, I can’t comment on LaunchBar but I’ve been curious about it for years. ![]()
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