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I'd add UELI[0] — probably the best alfred style launcher. Does almost everything including Everything integration. Also this script[1] for AHK to quckly jump from "Save as" window to folder currently opened in file explorer.

[0] — https://ueli.app/#/ [1] — https://pastebin.com/cmLVFdbB

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Just saw Ueli from the article. Looks really interesting but it seems to be built in Electron. What's its footprint like? I'm currently very happy using the nice lightweight Launchy but it hasn't been updated in a long time. Still works great but requires a bit of tinkering to get it going in Win10, last time I tried.

Performance wise it's fine for me but it does have some rough edges like:

- Moves across the screen for a while when using custom scaling

- Doesn't sort by most used result hits (always shows same order)

- Hangs for me when I click on results instead of navigating by keyboard

- Doesn't have an option to kill apps like Wox

But apart from these it does a lot of things quite well.

Mostly interested in how much RAM it uses - Launchy using < 9MB for me indexing all my applications + some of my docs. I feel like anything built on Electron is going to be 1GB at least?!

a browser for an app launcher, we reached new highs, or lows depending on people's taste

Only if you're too young to remember IE/DHTML built into Windows Explorer in Windows 9x, when folders were "web pages".

I was shocked when I saw that it's 120 MB, but I downloaded it anyway. Looks like a good Wox alternative so far....just skeptical about the performance and impact on battery given its Electron roots.

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