I was blind, but now I can see…

July 30th, 2003

Why didn’t someone tell me how useful LaunchBar was? I read about it when it was first released and thought it was just a fancy way to launch applications, but just a single evening playing with it has made it clear to me that I’ve been a fool. A fool, I tell you!

LaunchBar is a beautifully simple tool for finding stuff on your hard disk without having to plough through any number of hierarchies of folders. If all LaunchBar did was search for files I’d have rated it as moderately useful but nothing I need badly enough to pay for. What makes LaunchBar seriously handy is that it can also find email addresses and bookmarks, and makes launching them just as easy as opening files. I may never have to click on a bookmark again.

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4 Responses to “I was blind, but now I can see…”

  1. Stu Says:
    July 30th, 2003 at 11:24 pm

    Mac only … aaaaah!

  2. John Says:
    July 31st, 2003 at 12:09 am

    Oh, did I forget to mention that small detail?

    Sorry ’bout that… :-)

  3. Kris Says:
    July 31st, 2003 at 8:43 am

    Dude, I told you about it way back when you were just contemplating switching! That said, I really only use it to launch applications. Maybe I need to play with it some more. :)

  4. John Says:
    August 1st, 2003 at 1:00 pm

    [Checks archives] … Indeed you did. My bad.

    I think what happened was that, having read about LaunchBar before I Switched, I wasn’t really in a position back then to understand just how handy it might be.

    I’m still experimenting with the configuration options - in particular, just how many folders I can get it to index without slowing up the response time too much - but it’s pretty clear than I’m going to be using LaunchBar a lot.

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