Hey, could everybody who filled out the form put in here what they said for "Why do you prefer QS"? I have to paraphrase because I already filled out the form, but:
1. Nothing else really understands free-text search the way QS does: they're all based on contiguous phrases and/or starts of words—so in Alfred I have to type "pho" for Photoshop, but in QS it can be "ps". (This is assuming I don't have Alfred's "fuzzy matching" option turned on, but that option doesn't work on files, which is where it's the most useful) 2. Other apps use hard-coded actions in an inconsistent way—so for Alfred, if I want to quit an app I have to type the "q" first, then the app name, but I think the "move to" is after, like QS. QS instead uses an OO model where _everything_ is an object-action pair. What actions accept what objects is up to the plugin devs, and there are lots of tricks (like complementary actions as discussed on LoveQuicksilver, or Shift-Cmd-Letter shortcuts) to adapt if you _do_ want more "hard-coded" seeming or action-focused workflows. I wish they'd had a box for "weaknesses", in which I would have put: 1. Speed: I used Alfred for a little while before B60 and the one thing that I liked a lot was how fast it was. Of course how it _got_ that way is by using Spotlight, which is precisely why it doesn't do fuzzy matching, so... 2. Update frequency—which has the same cause and the same difficulties. "Every 10 minutes" is not nearly enough, especially if I'm in the Finder, move a file, and then want to get at it with QS and QS can't find it. Particularly if I install a new app, can't see the DMG for it because it's newly created so I have to go through the Finder, and then _still_ can't see the app itself without a Cmd-R. QS is still far and away the best launcher out there IMO. Thanks again to all the devs for bringing it back from the dead! On Aug 17, 7:34 pm, Adam Merrifield <[email protected]> wrote: > I was all over that form and represented quicksilver. > > Adam Merrifield > seydoggy.com > > 820 Strasburg rd, Kitchener, > Ontario, N2E 2Y3, Canada > > Email: [email protected] > Office: 519-489-6033 > Cell: 519-574-9788 > > On 2011-08-17, at 16:45, R <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > very quick and easy survey... > > > On Aug 17, 11:18 am, philostein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Shawn Blanc has a launcher survey over athttp://shawnblanc.net/ > > >> I think he's reviewing LaunchBar, but he wants to know about other > >> launchers' features and uses for comparison. > > >> It takes less than a minute to fill in. Thanks!
