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0 pointsedanm5y ago0 comments

Does anyone know of a good Mac version of this?

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I'm a long time user of quicksilver. Open source. Long time loyal users swear by its ux for efficiency. Development has slowed down recently, but it still runs great for me.

https://qsapp.com/index.php

norswap5y ago

Nope, and I've been searching.

The issue with the spotlight engine that everyone uses is that it excludes "hidden" directories and in particular every dot file and dot directory.

fragmede5y ago

Spotlight is built in, but Alfred’s also a good one.

dmytroi5y ago

I was looking for Everything for Mac and tbh I can't say Spotlight is even close. Sure Spotlight works great for apps and files in ~/Documents/, but I find it failing when I'm trying to find some obscure file in /Library/ or with-in Xcode SDK's.

Is Alfred good in this sense?

thirdsun5y ago

I’m using Alfred and you can add locations to search in, but I’m pretty sure you can also do that for Spotlight. It shouldn’t be a problem either way.

edanmOP5y ago

I used to use Alfred for this, but it's not really the same as Everything. I'm not sure why - something about the speed, results or maybe just the interface itself.

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