innovative::bytes start is an unique launcher for macOS that allows you to open applications, documents, URLs or folders quickly and easily. Create tidiness in your Dock and start items with the smart launcher app start instead.
start supports you and your workflow with a well planned organizational system for your items and a quick access to what you need.
It’s incredibly easy to use: start automatically collects all applications available with Spotlight. Further You also can add files and folders manually according to your wishes.
Start your Applications with a simple mouse click or even faster and more convenient: with a hotkey! Also use tags, colors and notes to keep track of your Applications. Enjoy the simple operation and the comfortable features of start!
Features
TAGS
Tag it and love it! Use tags to create collections for your applications, frequently used folders, scripts or any other file. It has never been so easy to organize and sort items on macOS. Save a lot of time – searching was yesterday!
COMMENTS
Comments and notes! Add comments and small notes to your items to describe them in more detail. The comments will remind you what the items can do for you. Small notes with big effect – so you always keep track!
COLORS
Highlight your items as you like! With just a few clicks you can highlight your items with colors and find them even faster. Choose colors for more clarity and organization – effective and visually appealing!
HOTKEYS
Start with a simple keystroke! Assign a key combination to your individual items and open them immediately from anywhere with a customizable keyboard shortcut. Your workflow is no longer disturbed – you’ll love the hotkeys!
Requirements
start was developed for macOS 10.13 (and newer) and uses Spotlight internally to search for applications. For start to work, Spotlight must be enabled and also capture applications (this is the normal setting of macOS)
What’s New:
Version 5.6
New features
- In Start it has always been very easy to call various URLs. Especially the use of URL schemes are a powerful, but sometimes hard to remember tool. For this reason you can now save URL templates in Start’s preferences and simply paste them into the URL dialog. Using similar URLs in Start is now much easier.
- The URL dialog has been significantly reworked. You can now use templates and test the URL directly in the dialog to see if it works as you want it to (this can be very useful especially with complex URL schemes). Oh and yes: Both the URL templates in the settings and the URL display in the URL dialog works with syntax highlighting to better display individual elements of a URL.
Bug fixes and other adjustments
- Start now detects when a drive is added or removed.
- Until now, every change in Spotlight immediately updated the internal database. Now this happens with a short delay to process many changes in a short time once.
- The “Refresh Data” function in the menu now also forces a complete rebuild of the internal icon cache.
- Various internal code adjustments and optimizations.
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