Launchers and me

I started using launchers shortly after returning to the Mac (from Linux) in 2005. The first one I used was the great Quicksilver. I’m sure I learned about it from Merlin Mann, who was Quicksilver’s biggest advocate, but I can’t point to which of his many posts on QS got me started. When Nicholas Jitkoff (Alcor) stopped developing Quicksilver in 2007 or so, I switched to LaunchBar, and that’s been my main launcher ever since.1 I gave Alfred a workout for a few months—inspired, I think, by this episode of Mac Power Users—and I’ve tried Spotlight a few times, but I’ve always returned to LaunchBar. My most recent trial of Spotlight began in late February and ended yesterday. I’d been hearing about the new and improved Spotlight since the introduction of macOS 26/Tahoe, and this episode of Upgrade inspired me to give it another shot. You may recall that as the episode in which Jason and Myke reviewed the results of Jason’s annual Apple Report Card, and they talked about Spotlight as being…