![]() ![]() LaunchBar’s display is consistent, and consistency is important when you’re trying to zip through information quickly.Īlso, LaunchBar will a show phone number in large type with a tap on the Return key, which is simpler than Alfred’s requirement to use ⌘L. Just seems cleaner to me than the way Alfred does it,Īlfred’s display looks prettier, but it’s not consistent with its usual list-based display of results. I use my launcher to search for contacts all the time, and the way LaunchBar displays the contact information, Given how often I run scripts, this was a big plus for LaunchBar.Ĭontact and phone number display. Maybe there was a setting in Alfred to change this that I never found, but LaunchBar, out of the box, just “knew” what I wanted to do and would run scripts without any need for navigation first. In Alfred, I was never able to run scripts by simply typing their names, I always had to first navigate to the folder they were in and then start typing the name of the script. 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. 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.
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