Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by ArlenBales » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 11:40 PM UTC

blainesch wrote: post #29

ArlenBales wrote: post #26

I'm a big power user of Alfred. I've created a lot of custom workflows in Alfred to automate things in macOS, such as setting up dev environments (window management) or using the Dash workflow integration. The power of Alfred is in its workflows and workflow creator. Alfred + Hammerspoon is particularly nice. (You can execute hotkeys in Alfred that trigger Hammerspoon init.lua bindings) I can't tell if Zazu is just a…

Zazu does allow for keyboard shortcuts, and can do everything the Alfred workflows can, but does not currently provide a GUI for creating the workflows. The biggest difference for the plugins, is that they are written in Node so they can be cross platform. For more info on creating plugins: http://zazuapp.org/documentation/plugins/

Thanks. The workflow creator GUI is the big seller for Alfred, it saves a lot of time in testing and tweaking workflows and from having to write a bunch of boilerplate.

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

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Post by hartator » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 11:56 PM UTC

+1 for clipboard history easily searchable. I think in my workflow it's adding so much to my personal productivy. Maybe the best productivy hack in Alfred.

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

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Post by binaryblitz » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 12:08 AM UTC

I love this thing so far. I recently switched to using Mint instead of OSX because I refuse to pay $2300 for a 15" MBP. I was really missing the clipboard ability of Alfred, and this is REALLY helpful.

Would it be possible to auto paste the clipboard result when you select it?

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

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Post by eridius » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 12:19 AM UTC

ArlenBales wrote: post #26

I'm a big power user of Alfred. I've created a lot of custom workflows in Alfred to automate things in macOS, such as setting up dev environments (window management) or using the Dash workflow integration. The power of Alfred is in its workflows and workflow creator. Alfred + Hammerspoon is particularly nice. (You can execute hotkeys in Alfred that trigger Hammerspoon init.lua bindings) I can't tell if Zazu is just a…

I'm a big user of Alfred, and I installed Hammerspoon a while back, but I have yet to actually do a single thing with Hammerspoon. I'm curious if you can provide any examples of what you use Hammerspoon for.

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

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Post by cpt1138 » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 1:37 AM UTC

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

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Post by NicoSantangelo » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 2:08 AM UTC

Seems really similar to Lacona ( https://www.lacona.io/ ), which also has add-ons and it's built on React.

Any idea if it's based on it?

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

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Post by ArlenBales » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 2:46 AM UTC

eridius wrote: post #34

ArlenBales wrote: post #26

I'm a big power user of Alfred. I've created a lot of custom workflows in Alfred to automate things in macOS, such as setting up dev environments (window management) or using the Dash workflow integration. The power of Alfred is in its workflows and workflow creator. Alfred + Hammerspoon is particularly nice. (You can execute hotkeys in Alfred that trigger Hammerspoon init.lua bindings) I can't tell if Zazu is just a…

I'm a big user of Alfred, and I installed Hammerspoon a while back, but I have yet to actually do a single thing with Hammerspoon. I'm curious if you can provide any examples of what you use Hammerspoon for.

I use it to setup dev environments' windows. For example, a hotkey that launches the following configuration automatically in about 14 seconds (this is my primary coding setup).

1. 3 terminals and 1 Finder each in a quadrant on Space 1

2. Two Chrome windows, full-screened and placed into split-view next to each other (split view is when you hold down the minimize button for a bit to put two full-screen apps next to each other)

3. Sublime Text 3, full-screened.

4. Dash (doc app) full-screened and placed split-view with another full-screened Chrome window.

Basically automates the windows I would setup manually every time I reboot and want to code.

Over in Windows land, I used AutoHotkey for years for all sorts of things, so Hammerspoon is comfortable for me.

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

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Post by skykooler » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 4:24 AM UTC

blainesch wrote: post #2

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

How does this compare to GNOME Do?

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

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Post by pech0rin » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 5:26 AM UTC

Seems interesting. Installed on Ubuntu 16.04 and keeps asking to update to 0.2.2 and hotkeys don't seem to work. Also crashed during a file search.

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

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Post by blainesch » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 5:35 AM UTC

binaryblitz wrote: post #33

I love this thing so far. I recently switched to using Mint instead of OSX because I refuse to pay $2300 for a 15" MBP. I was really missing the clipboard ability of Alfred, and this is REALLY helpful. Would it be possible to auto paste the clipboard result when you select it?

I would LOVE auto paste, but I've not found a good way to do this in Electron yet. ]:

If you know how, let me know :D