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