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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 risyasin »

aetherspawn wrote: post #6
fredsir wrote: post #4

MacOS, 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 ..

Alfred as a launcher it's free and way more efficient than spotlight. But just as the comment above, paid version is really nice and worth that price. Even deserve more. There is a website packal.org for workflows. It's amazing. Really miss fuzzy search on Gnome-shell or windows search.

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

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Post by Mithaldu »

sschueller wrote: post #109
juandazapata wrote: post #23

Great, another electron app. This one takes almost 300mb of RAM, just sitting there, being idle and doing nothing: http://imgur.com/a/vITos

Only used 70mb in Windows. Nice to see an app like this for windows and not always something exclusively for osx.

You miscounted something, it uses 210+MB on windows: http://i.imgur.com/EXSAKEK.png

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

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Post by gremlinsinc »

ue_ wrote: post #83
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.

I like rofi + i3w on Antergos, after using tiled windows and all the hotkey goodness it'd be hard to switch back to a more window-ed experience.

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

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Post by myfonj »

Related: For fast filesystem search on Windows (NTFS) I cannot recommend enough Everything [0]. Instant search through all drives. This app really shines. Under 1 Mb install size, blazing fast interface (can be bound to global hotkey), command line interface, optional HTTP interface, small memory footprint (depends on the size of indices). Really, if you haven't seen it, check it out.

It basically connects to the NTFS database, fo that's why it is instant. Still don't understand why OS does not do this.

[0] http://voidtools.com/

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

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Post by gregparadee »

Some of the comments in this thread are the exact opposite thing I would expect from this community and it is shameful. It's unfortunate that the top comment is one of these which could steer some people away from reading further.

As many others in this thread have pointed out, Cerebro is a pretty cool app that borrows from some core OS functionality and improves on it. Is its design 100% perfect? Maybe not. However, instead of commenting the application isn't exactly the way YOU would have done it and complaining try offering some constructive criticism.

If the app is memory hogging, not following best coding practices, or you have a cool idea of how something could be done instead share that feedback and offer better ways to do things. Not only does this benefit the developers working on this app but it helps others who may be working on becoming better developers themselves.

I myself am a naive developer. However I enjoy developing in my free time to keep myself thinking and I enjoy learning new things. I frequently visit this community to see what others are working on and looking at all the cool applications that people develop is a great way to pass time. If I had worked on something really hard, posted it, and then received some of these comments I would be extremely discouraged.

That said, if a Cerebro developer is reading, this looks like a really cool improvement on Spotlight (I use OSX). Keep up the good work and don't let the negative comments in here discourage you or your team!

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

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Post by amcrouch »

I used Launchy for years but then when setting up my last day to day laptop switched to Wox (http://www.getwox.com/) after trying Hain. It was too limited at that point.

On Linux, I use Super (Windows) key to use the inbuilt launcher which meets all my requirements. If Windows had anywhere near this level of usefulness in its start menu I wouldn't need the third party Wox.

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

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Post by Aldo_MX »

sidcool wrote: post #81
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.

And it is disheartening for the users to have a dozen of electron apps competing for CPU Time or Memory slowing down your PC and draining your battery.

Choosing electron to build an application means you didn't care about those implications either by negligence, ignorance or a combination of both and you can't expect a positive response when you neglect those issues just because you wanted to build something with the minimum possible effort to ship the application as fast as possible.

If we just blindly praised the efforts of people, the end result would be more apps built with electron, and that is abhorrent.

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

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Post by FooBarWidget »

spoiler wrote: post #105
pikzen wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

What hardware are you running on? Also: > I don't need a daemon written in JS running in a loop sucking up my laptop battery This is not JS (or Electron) specific. > I like it when my software doesn't randomly get in a loop maxing out a core Again, this is not JS (or Electron) specific. > I like it when my software is able to push out 60FPS animations. This is not JS (or Electron) specific either.

>> I like it when my software is able to push out 60FPS animations.

> This is not JS (or Electron) specific either.

Pikzen could be more respectful. But to be fair, it is really reeally hard to make animations smooth all the time with web technologies. I have never seen a web app or Electron app being smooth all the time, on all my hardware. Usually there is some amount of stuttering. I mean, come on, we did 60 fps in the 90s, so even hardware from 10 years ago should be able to achieve 60 fps all the time without breaking a sweat. I know there are hardware accelerated CSS animations but for some reason smooth animations remain hard, e.g. because of garbage collector pauses, accidental relayouts or whatever.

Native UIs tend to fare much better. Though to be fairer still, even they fail at delivering smooth animations all the time (but still succeed more often than web tech). For exmaple macOS Sierra has more animation stutterings on my latest Macbook Pro than OS X Lion from 2008.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #117
sidcool wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

And it is disheartening for the users to have a dozen of electron apps competing for CPU Time or Memory slowing down your PC and draining your battery. Choosing electron to build an application means you didn't care about those implications either by negligence, ignorance or a combination of both and you can't expect a positive response when you neglect those issues just because you wanted to build something with the…

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