For the last few months I’ve been running an informal test of LaunchBar. It is an excellent application but after living with it for awhile I’m happily returning to Quicksilver. I found LaunchBar more stable than Quicksilver but not as customizable and I really missed some of my favorite Quicksilver tweaks like timers, text append, the shelf, and (of course) that so cool cube interface. I wouldn’t entirely write off the possibility that I’ll give Launchbar another try someday but for now I need to go back and get re-aquainted with the Cube.
Since posting on the issues with Quicksilver, I’ve received two distinct groups of emails. Faction A is with me that “the Man” will indeed need to rip Quicksilver from our cold dead hands and faction B is telling me that I’m being silly for not even giving LaunchBar a chance. So I decided to do an experiment and run LaunchBar for a couple weeks. I’ve just installed it today and spent most of the day in meetings and away from my Mac. So far I seem to have its application launching, address book, and iTunes features down but that is about it.
I have no idea how to really use it to move files as I do in Quicksilver. Likewise I have no idea if LaunchBar can append text files, run timers, email files from my desktop or a variety of other tasks I use Quicksilver for. Nevertheless, I’m going to try and run it for a few weeks and see what happens. I’ll report back and maybe even do a review at some point in the not so distant future. Stay tuned.
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