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