Flashlight: Control your Mac with a keystroke.
Search the web, save a note, add a reminder, or do over 200 other things, just by typing into your Mac's Spotlight search box. Or write your own plugins. Requires OS X Yosemite.
Flashlight is an open platform for Spotlight, which allows developers to write plugins that extend OS X's built-in search with new features. Here are some of our favorites:
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Quick Web Search
- /hubble telescope
- /carroll gardens
- images of california
Search the web instantly from Spotlight. Type '/', followed by your search.
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Instranslator
- translate rain to spanish
- translate the copied text from french to arabic
Translate text between English, Arabic, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese, French and German.
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Wikipedia (EN)
- wiki Dogs
- search wikipedia for St. Louis, MO
- wikipedia Flashlight
Search English Wikipedia (wiki).
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Calendar Event
- add an event "team meeting" at 5 PM tomorrow
- calendar event: fly to San Francisco, 2/20 - 2/22
- on 1/27 i have a meeting at the bank
Add events to your calendar.
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Remind Me
- remind me to read a book
- new reminder Walk dog due tomorrow at 1:30 PM
Creates a new reminder.
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Shutdown
- shutdown
- restart
- logout
- sleep
- lock
- screen saver
Provides additional commands such as shutdown, restart and logout.
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iMessage
- text nate, where are you?
- imessage justin saying hello
Send iMessages (or texts, if you can send them from the Messages app).
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Send Email
- send an email to nate saying hello
- attach these files to a new email to nate@gmail.com with the subject Hello
Send email. Optionally attach selected files from Finder.
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Weather
- weather bristol,us
- how's the weather in Bristol,US?
Updated weather plugin with both days and hour-by-hour forcast.
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I'm Feeling Lucky
- i'm feeling lucky gmail
- ifl facebook
Immediately go to the first search result for your query.
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Eject
- ejectall
- eject all
- eject <volume>
- ej <volume>
- ejall
- ej all
Eject mounted volumes (physical and network)
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