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From my IDE , I can already interact with GitHub, JIRA, search stack-overflow, and pretty much anything else either natively or through the plugin system.
Love the concept & the idea! But why did go for MacOS / Swift instead of something cross-platform, such as Electron or Qt? Many devs outside of SV aren't using Macs.
Applications like these highly benefit from deep integration into the environment. Also, keeping them native and easy on resources makes them using a snap. You want these to come and go quickly, at the whim of a fingertip. You want them to connect to your local search services, reuse local components, etc. The biggest problem for most of these "Launchers", is that they try to be cross-platform, making them slow and a…
Also use SmallWindows for a Mission Control like interface.
Maybe it's because I'm a Windows user so I'm not your target audience Mac user, but my IDE already does all of this. From my IDE , I can already interact with GitHub, JIRA, search stack-overflow, and pretty much anything else either natively or through the plugin system.
eg - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Atlassia...
I want something like this, which is why I more or less have the skeleton and something that at least approaches this idea, built organically through time using various utilities. Rofi, some shell scripts, etc. This is a great idea in theory but much harder to do properly in practice. The idea is only really worthwhile as long as you can really extend it to a lot of things(no one cares about adding an Nth tool that c…
> I want something like this It's existed for almost 40 years, and it's called emacs. If anyone questions emacs's ability to display incredibly useful UIs, try using magit[0]. Emacs sucks though, so I hope this comes out better! [0] https://magit.vc/
About 10 years ago or so Aza created Enso which ran on the desktop and then Ubiquity which ran in the browser. These were both steps in this direction. I looked at going further with the idea but quickly ran into the question of how best to implement with currently available desktop technologies. But a lot of folks have been nibbling at the edges of this problem for a long time and they end up using rofi or dmenu or emacs and a bunch of custom scripts.
In my opinion one really needs to design a brand new shell from the ground up. But when I say shell I mean OS, not terminal.
I'm fairly confident one can write an Alfred plug-in for most of these tasks.
Though it seems that they're only primarily focused on work issue tracking (GitHub, Figma, etc.).
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/linear-lines-up-4-2m-led-b...
It’s aggravating having to stop and use my mouse all the time.
Feels like I’m constantly stuck in traffic while coding.