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.
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:
Creates a new reminder.
Eject mounted volumes (physical and network)
Add events to your calendar.
Immediately go to the first search result for your query.
Search English Wikipedia (wiki).
Search the web instantly from Spotlight. Type '/', followed by your search.
Send email. Optionally attach selected files from Finder.
Translate text between English, Arabic, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese, French and German.
Provides additional commands such as shutdown, restart and logout.
Updated weather plugin with both days and hour-by-hour forcast.
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By Nate Parrott and many others.