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New in LaunchBar 6.1, staging lets you select and work on multiple items at once in LaunchBar, even if they are not located in the same LaunchBar results list. Instant Send is the fastest way to put a selected file or bit of text on the bar, ready to open in another app, move to a folder, send to a Google search, calculate a result, look up in Dictionary, and more.

#LAUNCHBAR PDF#

Want to open a PDF in PDFpen rather than Preview? Attach a document to a new email message? Tag a file? Skype a contact? You can send anything on LaunchBar’s bar to another app, folder, action, or service. Too many results in a list to browse? Try a sub-search, which is an abbreviation search limited to a list of search results. You can browse folders, recent documents for an app, clipboard history, snippets, tags, and more. Sometimes you don’t know what you want until you see it. LaunchBar is smart (so the abbreviation doesn’t have to be obvious) and learns from what you type (in case it guessed wrong the first time).īrowsing. The primary way you select things in LaunchBar is by typing a few letters associated with the item you want to find.

(Don’t miss how LaunchBar comes to the rescue of ordinary citizens in our “Joy of Take” comic.)Ībbreviation search.

To help you develop a mental map of all that LaunchBar can do, author Kirk McElhearn explains LaunchBar in the context of its six superpowers - key LaunchBar techniques that no Mac user should be without.

#LAUNCHBAR HOW TO#

Learn how to use LaunchBar, from Objective Development, to carry out nearly any Mac task more efficiently. In the meantime, unless we receive a lot of feedback suggesting that customers want an update badly enough to pay for it, it’s unlikely that we’ll put the time and effort into doing one. For years we had assumed that if and when LaunchBar had a major new release, we’d update the book at that time…but that hasn’t happened and we don’t know if or when it will. In theory, the book could be tweaked to account for the revisions to LaunchBar and newer versions of macOS. It still functions more or less as described, though it has some newer features too. LaunchBar 6 has had a bunch of minor updates, but no major ones, in the last eight years.

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