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#1 always prioritize tasky in launchy results

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nobody
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2010-09-11
2010-09-11
Anonymous
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Hi;

Great plugin. What I would like to request is that tasky always show up as the first result in launchy's search results. I am thinking specifically of the issue of working with text, rtf and word documents, or even html documents or image files -- basically any file that, when opened by its editor, lends its name to the task name. Often these editors will open a new instance of the same file if you so specify (Notepad will do this). Tasky is one method of quickly getting around this issue. With tasky I can quickly focus the document that I want to edit, without having to worry about whether or not the document is already open. However, this process is slowed down considerably by having to sort through launchy's results to look for tasky -- essentially the same process as looking through the taskbar, which I want to avoid. It makes intutive sense, to me at least, that if you are searching for a file in Launchy, that the first result should be a file that is already open. Is this possible?

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  • Daniel Ossipoff

    Daniel Ossipoff - 2010-10-24

    I will look into it, but I don't think this is currently possible with the Launchy plugin API.

     
  • david rees

    david rees - 2011-05-15

    I also would like to see a way to solve the general problem of tasky items getting lost in the documents and bookmarks.
    Instead of prioritizing, could you maybe prefix the title with tasky (e.g. task - Firefox)? Then we could type tasky Fire.
    Another variation would be what PyGo-Y does. It just had a single item of go, then you type the task. See http://pylaunchy.sourceforge.net/docs/pygoy.html#pygoy.
    As a side note, it would be great if Launchy had the concept of narrowing by plugin. You could perhaps indicate plugin by #<plugin>. So it would be "#tasky Fire" or "#mathy 3 + 4".

     

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