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Mac Power Users

497: Spotlight, Alfred & LaunchBar

Mac Power Users

Relay

Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

macOS' Spotlight feature has made serious strides in recent years, but many power users still turn to Alfred and LaunchBar for app launching, file searching and executing workflows. This week, David and Stephen compare these tools and talk about their favorite features of each.

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users episode 497, Spotlight, Alfred, and Launch Bar.

0:05.0

Hello everyone, this is David Sparks along with my

0:14.9

pal Stephen Hackett. How you doing Stephen? Hey David how are you?

0:18.3

Excellent. Today we've got a show plan that we've been thinking about for some time.

0:24.0

These keyboard launchers, we both use them, but you're a big Alford user.

0:28.0

I'm a big launch bar user.

0:29.0

There's always spotlight getting better in the background.

0:32.0

I thought it was time that on the show we kind of went through those big three players and talked deeply about keyboard launchers on your Mac.

0:41.3

This is a big topic and it's one that like I said we've been working on for a while. We made each

0:48.6

other use the the opposite person's launcher for like a week and a half which totally just broke me like I'm so

0:57.4

used to Alfred I want to hear about that because there are big differences but but

1:02.3

before we do we get a couple

1:03.4

preliminary announcements first a reminder about the newsletter getting lots of nice

1:08.0

feedback on that newsletter so if you'd like to get a newsletter in your box every

1:12.0

day when the MPU publishes with the show notes

1:15.1

and the links and maybe a couple other little bits and nuggets.

1:19.2

One of the things I've been doing with the last couple is I'll put a little teaser about next week so you get a

1:23.1

hint about what's coming. We're gonna have some more fun with it. We haven't

1:26.4

figured it all out yet, but if you're interested there's a link in the show notes

1:30.4

here to sign up for that newsletter. This of course is the month of August, Relay FM membership month.

1:37.0

You can learn more at Relay.

1:38.0

Ifm. slash membership, we sell ads on the shows, that's the bulk of the income that David and I make on this, but the membership really is a huge part of it as well.

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