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Power users will find things that those apps can do that Flashlight can’t. If this sounds similar to LaunchBar or Alfred, you’re right.

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Here’s a quick (and incomplete) list of what Flashlight can do with its built-in plugins, to give you a sense of its abilities: start a call (FaceTime or regular, assuming your iPhone is connected) search Wikipedia, do a quick web search, do an “I’m Feeling Lucky” search, search Wolfram|Alpha, search Amazon, DuckDuckGo, Twitter, Flickr, Google images, animated GIFs, IMDB, torrents, Netflix, YouTube, Spotify, Evernote, and more check the weather add a calendar event or reminder with basic “natural language” parsing eject disks, shutdown/restart/logout/sleep/lock your Mac, or start the screensaver send an email or SMS check the spelling of a word reveal files in Finder email files from the Finder turn WiFi and Bluetooth on/off insert emojis speak text fast post to Twitter or Slack create a new note from the clipboard copy Finder paths, kill processes empty the trash show or hide desktop icons.ĭid I mention there’s more? Because there’s more, but you get the idea. Its plugin system also means that you can disable features that you don’t want or won’t use.

It extends Spotlight to do a bunch of different things (there’s a list below) but even more importantly it offers an API for others who want to hook into Flashlight’s power to do new and different things. Today, Flashlight is being released as a 1.0, with much more polish, and much less of that first-draft smell. Late last year, it was released as a beta which even its developer described as a “terrible hack.” But the idea was great, and I remember thinking: “Imagine if Spotlight could do all of these things.” Sometimes we see “first drafts” released into the wild and we think “Wow, that’s a terrible idea.” Sometimes we see them and think “That could be great.” Flashlight is an example of the latter. First drafts aren’t meant to be good, they’re meant to be a starting point.