oliverschwendener/ueli
Ueli
Ueli is a cross-platform productivity toolkit that provides a keyboard-centric interface for launching applications, opening files, and executing utility extensions. It functions as a desktop productivity tool designed to reduce navigation time through a central command bar and keystroke-based search.
The system features a pluggable utility toolkit, allowing the execution of specific tasks such as mathematical calculations, unit conversions, and password generation directly from the search input. It utilizes a pluggable extension architecture to decouple these utility tools from the core launcher.
The toolkit includes capabilities for quick access file search and application launching across different operating systems. It also incorporates a system for pinning frequent search results to prioritize them within the interface.
Features
- Keyboard-Driven Interfaces - Provides a central command bar and input loop optimized for real-time keyboard-driven navigation and search.
- Cross-Platform Keystroke Launchers - Provides a unified keyboard-driven search interface for launching apps, opening files, and executing tasks across various operating systems.
- Pluggable Architectures - Employs a pluggable architecture to decouple utility tools from the core launcher, allowing dynamic loading of extensions.
- Cross-Platform Desktop Runtimes - Implements a build strategy and runtime to interface with multiple operating system APIs for launching files and apps.
- Quick Open Interfaces - Provides a searchable command bar for rapidly locating and opening documents and folders on the computer.
- Application Launchers - Functions as a keyboard-driven interface for searching and executing local binaries and documents.
- Utility Toolkits - Provides a toolkit of pluggable extensions for performing diverse utility tasks directly from search.
- Quick-Launch Application Interfaces - Offers a keyboard-driven search overlay for quickly finding and starting local applications and files.
- Search-Based Application Launchers - Implements a search-based interface for quickly locating and starting local applications and opening files.
- Favorite Items - Implements a storage mechanism to track and prioritize frequently used search results.
- Integrated Utility Toolsets - Integrates calculations, unit conversions, and password generation into a single keystroke-based interface.
- Utility Task Executors - Enables the execution of calculations, unit conversions, and password generation via a pluggable extension system.
- Desktop Productivity Tools - Operates as a lightweight background utility designed to optimize desktop navigation and productivity.
- Desktop Automation - Automates repetitive utility tasks and manages system-wide shortcuts through a centralized launcher.
- Result Pinning - Allows users to pin specific search results to the top of the list to override the standard ranking algorithm.
- Application Launchers - Powerful keystroke launcher.
