On Windows...
Are anyone using keypirinha?
Is cerebro better?
Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
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Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was super sold, ready to install. But then realized that too. Electron apps drain my mac battery super fast. It's a pity.
That must be the fault of the app than the Electron framework itself.
You might think, but it seems all electron apps are resource hogs.
What does seem to be in the app's control is whether it is fast.
See VS Code and Atom; huge difference in performance but both will chew up your battery.
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#33MacOS, 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.
Equally, it's free. Alfred wants me to pay for it again to upgrade to the newest version, but I'm feeling like I kind of don't want to sink more money into it ..
I got the lifetime supporter pack for about 40 bucks and I've been using it for the last 6 years or so with free upgrades. Not a bad investment for something that you literally use almost every single day.
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#34MacOS, 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.
Equally, it's free. Alfred wants me to pay for it again to upgrade to the newest version, but I'm feeling like I kind of don't want to sink more money into it ..
tbh, ive been hoping that a paid launcher for windows would come along at some stage because all the current ones only half fit my needs and are probably going to stay that way for a while since they only developed in someones free time
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#35MacOS, 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 once was a fan of electron until I ran some apps on a low end surface with little disk space. Something like react native for the desktop could become a huge success.
There is work being done on Universal Windows Platform support for React Native, which will let you publish not just on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile but on the Xbox One.
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#36OMG, another electron app that is meant to run as a daemon.
It's terrible. I already have hard times with Slack taking more memory than i would expect from a chat.
Yeah, I know that it's super hard to make native GUI these days, but please if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you have a relatively simple app, don't choose electron for that.
Examples of good ol' native desktop apps : twitter for OSX.
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#37So basically... an imitation of Spotlight? I prefer that they copy Alfred's UI. Simple and does all I need. Need Alfred on my Windows machine!
Check Hain [1] on Windows. It works very nicely. [1] https://github.com/appetizermonster/hain
I've been using Hain for the past 6 months, it s great but again built with Electron and can be a memory hog. Also the developer has seemingly become quiet in the past few months. I'd pay for a Alfred type windows version.
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was super sold, ready to install. But then realized that too. Electron apps drain my mac battery super fast. It's a pity.
That must be the fault of the app than the Electron framework itself.
I think it's caused by Electron being so "easy". Anyone without much experience in CS can write desktop applications with it. Those who do have the CS experience tend to use different frameworks.
So even if Electron is a solid foundation, there is probably a bias towards inexperienced developers in who it attracts to work with it.
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#39On Windows... Are anyone using keypirinha? Is cerebro better?
ive been trying keypirinha since a few weeks ago. its not bad. its nice improvement over launchy and is being developed unlike launchy which hasnt been touched in years.
having to change the settings from a text file in keypirinha is bit of a pain though.
anyway, from what i can tell, cerebro is able to show you a lot more things and also has plugins. keypirinha just shows basic things like files and apps i think
Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
#40"Search everything in few clicks" - poorly phrased or actually promotes navigating by clicking instead of using keyboard?
some keyboards make clicky sounds ;)