I know @JMichaelTX will scold me for not posting publicly, but there are other topics about how KM plays with LB and similar, and I donât want to post another one. Iâve just started using LB in the last ~week and am loving it. The instant send is a killer feature and has replaced all of my âOpen with X Appâ KM macros. I love the way it integrates with OmniFocus and Fantastical.
I wonât âscoldâ you â donât think Iâve ever done that.
But, yes, I will encourage you to post questions like this in the public âQuestionsâŚâ Category.
We recently had an in-depth discussion about where to post automation questions/topics that donât directly relate to KM. @peternlewisâs guidance was:
First, probably best to post in the forum of the product.
But itâs OK to post here. Use the âQuestionsâŚâ Category (NOT the new âOutback Loungeâ.
Having said all that, I am very interested in LaunchBar, and in your question.
Iâm pretty sure there are other KM forum members not in this PM that use LB, and would be interested and could contribute. @ccstone is one that comes to mind.
I didnât post it publicly because while LB is tangentially related to KM, I didnât think opening a new topic asking about how folks use LB with KM was appropriate, and Iâm not really looking for KM+LB tips, just LB.
I did forget about @ccstone, I will ping him. I was just going through the LB-respondents to my âKeeping scripts in syncâ topic.
Itâs not only for opening docs with a specified app. The Instant Send is really a core part of most things you can do with LB.
Probably Yes. It depends of if you have skimmed through the LB Help
In case you didnât, this is another, not so obvious, example of an killer feature, for me. But, just go through the LB Help to discover a shitload of useful things.
However, the most âkiller featureâ for me is LBâs Abbreviations, as I tried to describe here and there: It may take some time until you realize how useful LBâs abbreviations really are (as opposed to âtraditionalâ hotkeys). But once youâve got it, youâll have a complete new universe (aka namespace) of how to launch your scripts, actions, docs, apps, snippets, etc. â Coexisting with your established hotkey triggers from whatever app, of course.
Pop-open LaunchBar and hit âdâ to go to the Desktop â then type to filter items on the Desktop.
Pop-open LaunchBar and select an app â then Option-Right-Arrow into the app to discover hidden files in it â including the version number.
Continue inside the app to the Info.plist file and Right-Arrow into it â to see structured XML nodes.
Pop-open LaunchBar â select an app like BBEdit or TextWrangler and hit the Spacebar â to bring up a recent documents list.
Create a âWorking Itemsâ folder in the Finder â index it with LaunchBar â give it an abbreviation like âwkâ. Then you can type âwkâ in LB then Spacebar to access all your working items.
I have working, pending, and action folders.
I also have my code library folder indexed, so I can find things quickly.
I use LaunchBarâs calculator regularly and only fire up Soulver or Excel when I have something really complex to compute.
Yes, Iâve seen. I love the way I can highlight any text and send it to OmniFocus, and the note attached is a link to the email/page I sent it from. Thatâs awesome. Itâs an OmniFocus service but itâs a great way to access it.[quote=âTom, post:5, topic:6643â]
Probably Yes. It depends of if you have skimmed through the LB Help
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Yes I am slowly reading through that.
Iâve installed and uninstalled LB a few times before this installation stuck. Combined with realizing (with your help) that LB is not a spotlight replacement. The abbreviations let me do things I used to do with spotlight, ie:
âkffâ text expansion for "kind:folder " to allow searching for specifically folders, I now have an abbreviation âkffâ that specifies the Folders Category. So now I can type âkff space searchtermâ just like I used to.
The abbreviations have also FIXED problems for me, alleviating macro trigger conflicts in several areas.
Thatâs great![quote=âccstone, post:6, topic:6643â]
I use LaunchBarâs calculator regularly and only fire up Soulver or Excel when I have something really complex to compute.
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Yes, very useful. I still havenât learned to tap = first, but beyond that I prefer itâs readability to Spotlightâs calculator.
AlâŚright. I had interpreted your post as if you were saying that you had difficulties to learn the = key. That made me think that you maybe arenât aware of the other options to invoke the calculator.
@cfriend, again, no âscoldingâ, not now, not ever.
But I did just move your PM to a public topic, in the"Tips & Tutorials" Category.
I hope this is OK with you. There is a lot of great stuff already in this topic that many can benefit from, and contribute to. Plus, it is not really searchable as a PM.
Thanks for this thread (and others regarding LB). With you guysâ influence Iâve switched back to LB from Alfred. One annoyance. The first time I open LB after the machine boots (MBA 10.12.3) LB sits unresponsive for 30-60 seconds. Iâm guessing it is something to do with index updating, but havenât found a root cause yet.
I also think, itâs the indexing (since â in my case â reducing the index also reduced the unresponsive time), but the odd thing is:
Normally, when LB is updating its index, the window is not unresponsive
It only happens when I invoke the LB window for the first time after a system reboot. It doesnât matter if this is immediately after booting or 10 minutes after booting. (So there is enough time for LB to do its necessary stuff.)
Never seen this before Sierra
My â uneducated â guess is: After booting, LB is trying to do the same it did in pre-Sierra, but some change in Sierra doesnât allow it to do it unless brought to the foreground.
In case you are running Sierra: Are you not experiencing that delay?