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macOS / Productivité

Discover Start - The ultimate Launcher for macOS!

With Start, the innovative launcher for macOS, you can instantly open applications, documents, shortcuts, URLs, and folders. Say goodbye to clutter—Start brings order and efficiency to your workflow.

## Organize Your Digital Life

Start helps you organize your applications, documents, and folders optimally. Its well-designed system allows you to quickly find everything you need. Start automatically collects all applications available through Spotlight, and you can manually add additional files, URLs, and folders as desired. Open your entries with a mouse click or even faster using a hotkey. Keep track of your entries with tags, colors, and comments. With Start, managing your workflow becomes a breeze!

## Exciting Features

Tags:
Create collections for applications, frequently used folders, URLs, and more. Organize and sort your apps on macOS like never before.

Comments:
Add helpful notes to your entries, so you know exactly what features they offer. Small comments can have a big impact—stay on top of everything.

Colors:
Highlight your entries according to your preferences. With just a few clicks, you can assign colors and find them even faster.

Hotkeys:
Assign custom key combinations to individual entries or tags and launch them instantly from anywhere. Your workflow will never be interrupted again!

## Requirements and Availability

Start is designed for macOS version 14 and above, using Spotlight for application search. To ensure smooth operation, Spotlight must be enabled to capture applications (which is the default setting on macOS).

Discover Start and optimize your workflow like never before!

Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?

### New
- **Optimized behavior when opening applications:**
The behavior when opening applications has been improved in Start 9.3. If the desired application is not already open, it will be launched as before. If it is already open but in the background, it will now automatically be brought to the foreground.
New is the behavior when the application is already open and currently in the foreground: in this case, it will now be hidden.
This is especially useful if you open applications in Start using a keyboard shortcut: with the shortcut, you can now not only launch an application or bring it to the foreground, but also quickly hide it again by pressing the shortcut a second time.
If you prefer the previous behavior, that is of course still possible: in the settings, you can disable the new opening behavior at any time.

### Improved
- Internal processes have been optimized so that Start uses fewer resources.

### Bugfixes
- In some cases, Start was unable to open folders even though the necessary permissions were present.