What's it like compared to Spotlight on OSX?
It's Spotlight++, even better with an NP-hard template system.
Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
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#12"Cerebro" in Spanish means "brain".
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#13I wish siri would let me type queries.
Having "information at your fingertips" really kills productivity for me. I need long stretches away from twitch reactions to "what's the capital of Uganda?" type of intrusive thoughts. I'd honestly pay for a "2 click" browser extension where you only get to make two clicks on any link per hour for a given domain on a blacklist of time sinks during certain hours.
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#14Doesn't Cortana do this? Also unit dash can also search the web and local files.
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#15I wrote about a cross-platform alternative using Terminal, specially if you work with multiple OSs https://hackernoon.com/cross-platform-productivity-tool-with...
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#16MacOS, and Linux, and Windows? Let me guess: it's some web-electron-app-native-things, right? Yes it is. Not gonna replace (native) Alfred for me, no.
I was super sold, ready to install. But then realized that too.
Electron apps drain my mac battery super fast. It's a pity.
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#17There are quite a few of these Quicksilver-clones these days:
* Ulauncher http://ulauncher.io/
* Albert https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert#albert-
* Synapse https://launchpad.net/synapse-project
* Kupfer https://kupferlauncher.github.io/
* Zazu http://zazuapp.org/
* M-x counsel-linux-app http://oremacs.com/2016/03/16/counsel-linux-app/
I've tried a couple, but I always end up back to Alt+F2 in XFCE, since most of these launchers always start so slowly in comparison, and I never use any other features (more than once) than starting Firefox/Emacs/Terminal …
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#18I wish siri would let me type queries. Having "information at your fingertips" really kills productivity for me. I need long stretches away from twitch reactions to "what's the capital of Uganda?" type of intrusive thoughts. I'd honestly pay for a "2 click" browser extension where you only get to make two clicks on any link per hour for a given domain on a blacklist of time sinks during certain hours.
Here's an extension that can block sites by domain after a pre defined number of minutes on those sites:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...
Here is more of a nuclear option that lets you micro manage your activity on an os-level. Unfortunately no Linux client afaik. A bit pricy, but very customizable and very effective: https://focusme.com
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#19I love the idea of extending it with Javascript. Every service my company uses has an API that'd be (presumably) trivial to wire-in to this, making for a nice alternative to the traditional informational portal.
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#20Default Spotlight in macOS?