This is a point in Alfred’s favor, but to me it’s overwhelmed by the convenience of hopping with the spacebar. The disadvantage of using the spacebar for folder hopping is that you can’t use it as part of the search term. Part of it is that the spacebar is always right there under my thumb, and part of it is that the inline arrow key layout on the Magic Keyboard (which I use on both computers) makes the right arrow less distinct than it would be if the arrows were in an inverted T. This may seem like a tiny difference, but I find using the spacebar-even after five months of training myself to use the right arrow-so much easier. When working your way down a directory hierarchy in LaunchBar, you switch to searching within a folder by tapping the spacebar in Alfred you switch by tapping the right arrow key. Given the overlap in features, my ultimate preference for LaunchBar over Alfred comes down to just a few differences:įolder navigation. Once you get acclimated to using one, you find working on a device that doesn’t have one like working with mittens on.
#HOUDAHSPOT PC MAC#
Launchers, especially their ability to dig though a folder hierarchy in one step, are one of the main reasons I find certain types of work much easier on a Mac than on an iPad.
It and LaunchBar do roughly the same thing and seem to be equally well thought of among Mac power users. Since I was considering wiping LaunchBar from the 2017 iMac and starting over from scratch, I thought it might be a good time to give Alfred a try.
#HOUDAHSPOT PC UPDATE#
Some corruption in whatever internal database LaunchBar uses to make and update its predictions? I was pretty sure the indexing rules on the new iMac were the same as on the old one, so the difference in behavior didn’t make sense to me. I assumed this was because LaunchBar needed some time on the new computer to learn my habits, but even after the better part of a year, it still seemed to be making mistakes, especially when predicting which folder I wanted to open. The obvious question is why did I switch in the first place? After getting a new iMac in late 2017, I noticed that LaunchBar wasn’t as smart on that machine as it was on my 2012 iMac (which I had moved from my office to home and am still using). Five months is, I would say, a fair trial, and while there were a few things about Alfred I preferred, last week I returned to LaunchBar and am happy to be back. Next post Previous post Back to LaunchBarīack in October, after over ten years of using LaunchBar, I decided to give Alfred a try.
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