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Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by sidcool »

drinchev wrote: post #36

OMG, 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…

I hoped a better comment were at top. This is disheartening for the developer. Instead of downright rudeness, constructive feedback would help.

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by ue_ »

unhammer wrote: post #17

There 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…

Rofi is fast, customisable and nice.

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by codingdave »

Is finding things such a pain point for many people? I work with a few tools/programs, and a few locations where my documents and data live. I know where those are and go to them so often it takes no effort. The few times I do need to go elsewhere, the tools that come with the OS work fine.

So, sure, great, more power to you if you want to write a tool like this. I'm just not feeling the pain that would make me have any interest in giving it a try.

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by pikzen »

Blahah wrote: post #60
drinchev wrote: post #36

OMG, 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…

I feel completely the opposite way. > It's terrible. It's awesome. Who cares if it takes more memory than someone would expect? That doesn't matter unless you're on a memory constrained system, in which case it's hardly the fault of developers looking to be productive. Electron is here to stay, and it is greatly improving the desktop app ecosystem imo. > if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you…

>Who cares if it...

I care, because it's a waste of resources, I care because I don't need a daemon written in JS running in a loop sucking up my laptop battery, I care because I like it when my software doesn't randomly get in a loop maxing out a core, I care because I like it when my software is able to push out 60FPS animations.

You know, things Electron doesn't provide.

I get it, HTML+CSS is probably the fastest thing we have for UIs today, and it's not half bad. That doesn't stop software from being absolute crap.

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by galfarragem »

harrygeez wrote: post #65
snowcrshd wrote: post #8

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Check Hain [1] on Windows. It works very nicely. [1] https://github.com/appetizermonster/hain

Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, it's also an Electron app, which is something I would like to avoid. If footprint is also a concern to you check out http://keypirinha.com ! It's really great, with the only concern being not very elegant aesthetically...

Just installed Keypirinha. It's great! Thanks for the hint.

Edit: https://github.com/Keypirinha/Keypirinha

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by neom »

pikzen wrote: post #79
neom wrote: post #70

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What if the developer was 16 and this was the first thing they had ever made and they were super proud of being able to get something out the door? Read HN and then never made anything again. That happened to me with music when I was young, so discouraging and missed out on an awesome hobby in my 20s and am thankful I had the courage to pick it back up. The tone some folks take in this community often make me want to…

Oh come on. Half this thread is praise for the app. This one post is about how he picked a terrible technology. He'll live. Best case scenario, he'll even learn a valuable lesson, to not use Electron.

It's about HOW one is critical, not THAT one is critical.

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by JetSpiegel »

pymai wrote: post #40
niklasber wrote: post #9

"Search everything in few clicks" - poorly phrased or actually promotes navigating by clicking instead of using keyboard?

some keyboards make clicky sounds ;)

For the ones that don't, there's https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by aeze »

pikzen wrote: post #85
Blahah wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel completely the opposite way. > It's terrible. It's awesome. Who cares if it takes more memory than someone would expect? That doesn't matter unless you're on a memory constrained system, in which case it's hardly the fault of developers looking to be productive. Electron is here to stay, and it is greatly improving the desktop app ecosystem imo. > if you try to attract developer community with plugins and you…

>Who cares if it... I care, because it's a waste of resources, I care because I don't need a daemon written in JS running in a loop sucking up my laptop battery, I care because I like it when my software doesn't randomly get in a loop maxing out a core, I care because I like it when my software is able to push out 60FPS animations. You know, things Electron doesn't provide. I get it, HTML+CSS is probably the fastest…

Good thing it's open source, so you can attempt to improve it if you'd like. :)

Re: Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain

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Post by brudgers »

drinchev wrote: post #36

OMG, 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…

Maybe put some more RAM in your computer. It's pennies per megabyte these days.
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