Promptu

Say goodbye to repetitive, time-consuming tasks, like hunting through your programs, folders, files, and bookmarks for the ones you need. Promptu lets you associate...

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Windows

say goodbye to repetitive, timeconsuming tasks, like hunting through your programs, folders, files, and bookmarks for the ones you need. promptu lets you associate meaningful names with programs, folders, files, bookmarks, etc, and access them almost instantly from your keyboard in an intuitive way.

zach johnson was introduced to slickrun (another application launcher) a while back and used it for a number of years. wanting more features, he started developing his own application launcher, which later became promptu.

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The Best 68 Promptu Alternatives

RocketDock

Alfred

Listary

Gnome Do

Quicksilver

Find And Run Robot

Synapse

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Avant Window Navigator

LaunchBar

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Enso Launcher

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