![]() If you press fn + F3 then Launchpad opens. If you now press F3 normally you will get a window overview as usual. Then press the fn key and F3 simultaneously. Click once on “Show Launchpad” and then press Enter. Just go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and select “Launchpad & Dock” on the left. We show you how to create a new shortcut for it. the overview of all installed programs, is no longer available. Among other things, the key for the Launchpad, i.e. There is almost no communication from the developers - we have now a version 6.9.5 and we still don’t know if there will be a version 7 of LB and when.In the new MacBook Air with M1 chip, Apple has retained the row of mechanical function keys, but has reassigned three of them. It may be more difficult for non-programmers to write Actions, compared to the half-visual programming approach for workflows in Alfred. Shortcomings: Well, the community is less vibrant (almost non-exising, I would say, no packal, forum is dead). Or it may be simply mature - it is existing for 22 years now. To summ it up: LB is a power tool and there is certainly a learning curve to use it efficiently, but I have a feeling the developers thought about how you could use it more than Andrew (developer of Alfred, a really nice guy). And honestly, when I tried to use Alfred, most work went into finding Workflows which would allow me somehow to do what is already included in LB. The only available workflow in Alfred will open the finder to AirDrop the document from there. Want to select a file and send it via AirDrop? Not a problem, select/find a file, long press, TAB, “air” and enter. Don’t want to write Actions (the LB equivalent of Workflows)? Ok, it can use the system Services. In LB you would just define a search for folders so you will get only the git repository names - I use it mostly to send the folder directly to VSCode. ![]() ![]() Spotlight and thus Alfred will index all the files inside which will extremely clutter the search results and render them useless. Again - imagine you have a project folder with a lot of git repositories. Index the folders you need - you can also define the depth it indexes and types of files. So, don’t index the whole Documents folder. Alfred uses Spotlight index, LB uses it’s own index. Btw, it is not valid for complex search, like search inside a folder - there you can wait as long as you want. Mine is set to the minimal value and I sometimes wish it would allow me to set it lower. That is what this “retype delay” does for you. Seriously, don’t even try to correct, don’t bother about deleting - just retype. Since you don’t have workflow abbreviations you should memorise you just type, not in full words but in some letters (you will get a good feeling for it pretty soon), and if you don’t find what you seek and need to correct yourself, just retype. LB is not meant to think a lot about what you type. Alfred is an island - it is difficult to get things in, if you get them in, it takes more time to achieve the same and the whole syntax of the workflows is just not up to this task. Do the same with files, images, folders and so on - you soon will understand how well it works and how useful it is. Press TAB, type “ma”, select maps and press enter. Well, just select it, make a long press on the “Call LB” combo and it will be opened in LB as an Object. So, imagine, you find an address in text and want to look it up in Maps. It is so cumbersome to get thing into and out of it, I could cry. Easily the most useful feature which is the single point why I simply can’t use Alfred anymore. This is extremely useful with the next point. If you want to use search inside of a Workflow (called Actions in LB) it is “Object Space Search term”. Instead, the syntax is “Object Tab Action”. In LB you don’t have to memorise all the abbreviations for Workflows (it drives me crazy to clutter my brain with all the WF syntax in Alfred). Well, there are some things in LP which make me cry every time I use Alfred.
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