Yal

Access your files, programs, browser bookmarks, search engines and windows with a few key presses.

Free
Open Source
Windows

yal yet another launcher

yet another launcher

yal can help you speed up the way you interact with your windows based pc.you can easily access your favorite programs, documents, even browser bookmarks.you don't even have to type their full name. yal can usually tell what you actually want, without expecting many input characters. there's also tab completion that could come handy in some cases.

the more you use yal, the better it gets. it keeps count of the keywords you enter and the entries youexecute, thus it will always give you the best possible suggestions.

you can also perform simple math calculations, access your clipboard's history, termitate processes, you can quickly switch between opened windows, perform searches in your favourite search engines...and more to come.

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