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Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred

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Re: Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred

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I'm the author of Zazu, I'm happy to answer any questions. Ask away!

Alfred piggybacks on spotlight's metadata index for finding a file, how does the file finder for this work?

This looks great. I've been debating on building my own tool for this. I'll try and contribute some code to this.

Re: Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred

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post #11

I'm the author of Zazu, I'm happy to answer any questions. Ask away!

Alfred piggybacks on spotlight's metadata index for finding a file, how does the file finder for this work? This looks great. I've been debating on building my own tool for this. I'll try and contribute some code to this.

Yes, since the first file finder needed to be cross platform I create a cache in the plugin, but a mac specific one would be great! :D

Technically it spins up another process and recursively goes through a whitelisted set of directories. It caches just the app locations, not all the files.

Re: Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alfred piggybacks on spotlight's metadata index for finding a file, how does the file finder for this work? This looks great. I've been debating on building my own tool for this. I'll try and contribute some code to this.

Yes, since the first file finder needed to be cross platform I create a cache in the plugin, but a mac specific one would be great! :D Technically it spins up another process and recursively goes through a whitelisted set of directories. It caches just the app locations, not all the files.

Hmmm alright interesting. I'll look at this when I get off work. Thank you for the reply.

Re: Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred

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post #10

I'm the author of Zazu, I'm happy to answer any questions. Ask away!

How does the file search on Win10 compare to native file search?

It was implemented in Node and I've not benchmarked it on Windows, but it's probably not as fast. [:

Re: Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred

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post #12

Can you talk about the impact of this app on battery life / performance? Slack has made me leery of everything electron.

I've been running it on my Mac, along with other electron apps like Slack and VSCode, and I've not noticed a drain on my battery.

It's never come up in my "Apps using significant energy" in the battery dropdown.

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